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Google's Gmail has graduated an unsend email option that had existed in the "Labs" section of the settings for years:
With the option, Gmailers get the chance to click an "undo send" link at the top of the screen after clicking "send" on any e-mail message. As with the original Labs version, the option, which now lives in the service's "general" settings tab, lets users pick a safety timespan between 5-30 seconds. Messages won't actually send until that time runs out, unless a user clicks the "view message" tab next to "undo," at which point a message will immediately whisk through the Internet's many tubes and reach its recipient.
The six-year-old option, which won't be turned on for the general public by default, had previously lived in Gmail's Labs tab, so if users wanted to enable it, they had to bypass a stark warning about "experimental" features that could "change, break, or disappear at any time." Major competitors like Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have yet to offer a similar option.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by middlemen on Wednesday June 24 2015, @08:41PM
In the late 90s, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail offered an option to "Send Later" which seems to have disappeared from everywhere. I feel that is more useful than the Unsend option.
Users are more likely to write emails that they would like to send at a certain time such as birthday wishes, anniversary reminders, results of your work at 3am to make you look more hardworking than your colleagues etc.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:15PM
results of your work at 3am to make you look more hardworking than your colleagues
If google's looking for a revenue stream this would probably work pretty well.
Another hilarious idea: the local public school system uses google apps internally for all student stuff including assignment submission and its well known teachers are unamused at essays sent 3 seconds before the due date, so if its not hurting anybody being able to back date emails might be nice.
Another idea for the mighty GOOG is notary service using COTS tools.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by virens on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:18PM
In the late 90s, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail offered an option to "Send Later"
Actually, this "Send later" feature is present in Gmail, only in API and hidden for the user.
You can use Firefox plugins like RightInBox [rightinbox.com] (that are free) to bring it back.
Also, it would be nice if Google can fire those "UI designers" who decided to put the "unquote" tiny (!) button right above the f%$#ing SEND button - bam, and you send an empty message! So yeah, that Undo function is handy - not because of the function itself, but because of UI designer morons who smoke some crazy crap and never use their own "products".
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:21PM
Yahoo still has this option! It is just enabled by default. Sometimes I'll send an email from my Yahoo account and it arrives 3 hours later. usually after 10 minutes I log into my gmail and send from there and it arrives isntantly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:31PM
(Score: 2) by middlemen on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:12PM
By "Send Later", I meant "Send later at this specific Date and Time automatically without user intervention" and not "Drafts".
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:29PM
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