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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the hangover dept.

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: 1) by cyberthanasis on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:55PM

    by cyberthanasis (5212) on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:55PM (#201198)

    Well, so many years in beta and there is a bug.

    As soon as I saw the article I enabled the unsend option in my gmail account. Then I deleted the 2 most recent emails, and I sent an email to my wife. Then I used the undo button, and the email to my wife was not sent. But, the 2 emails which I had deleted just before, reappeared in my inbox. This is not random behavior, I tried it again, and again the 2 deleted emails reappeared.

    Cheers.