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.
(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".