Google has given a new experimental feature to Gmail yesterday, allowing users to stop the messages from being sent by mistake.
This features announced in official Gmail Blog yesterday – New in Labs: Undo Send.
To turn on this option, you need to go to Settings -> Labs -> Undo Send, and select ‘enable’. Once this feature is activated, you will see a new ‘Undo’ link appear on every sent mail confirmation. Clicked this link will take you back to the composing window allowing you to cancel the delivery or modify the message.
Unfortunately, ‘Undo Send’ doesn’t really pull back a message that has already sent. This feature only holds your message for 5 seconds so you have a chance for second thoughts.
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4 Comments Received
April 10th, 2009 @ 10:49 AM
This is a great feature and I have already used it way too many times already, haha.
April 17th, 2009 @ 5:08 PM
Very interesting article, google mail does have sweet features, but I’ve seen many of them before, not as easy as to use as google mail, but this, never seen it before, very good idea.
I think it would just have a 5 second delay before it sends the email, so you have a chance to stop it from sending, I don’t think it would be possible to easily remotely delete the email after it’s been sent.
May 1st, 2009 @ 4:44 PM
that’s why i use gmail for two years because of it’s good features.
May 11th, 2009 @ 8:17 AM
Thats nice. not so long ago I did sent something by mistake and I recognize it, tried to hit cancel but seemed to not work at all. This one should have been done before it happened to me. ehhehe.. Well, this one is ok, I like this. Maybe after few years they will be able to make something much better than this one, will look forward to that.
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