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Google mail new feature: You
can Undo send messages
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If you’ve ever mistakenly emailed your
devotion to a former partner or accidentally used reply-all on an email
thread to thousands of colleagues, good news: Gmail’s “undo send” feature
has come to the masses.
The feature, which can prevent massive social
embarrassment and help avoid long chats with the HR department about what you
just by mistake sent to a colleague, is to be a standard part of Google’s
webmail. It can be turned on from within Gmail’s settings menu and enables
people to set a “cancellation period” of five, 10, 20 or 30 seconds after
sending any email, during which they can call it back. The feature has been
available in Gmail’s experimental Labs settings for some time, and was recently
added to the company’s Inbox mobile email app — so many of Gmail’s more
tech-savvy users will have set it up already.
With 900 million active Gmail users, however,
many will not have been digging through the Labs experiments, so making Undo
Send a formal setting will bring it to the attention of many more people. “Today
we’re adding ‘Undo Send’ as a formal setting in Gmail on the web,” explained
Google in a blog post as the change went live. “‘Undo Send’ allows people using
Gmail to cancel a sent mail if they have second thoughts immediately after
sending. The feature is turned off by default for those not currently using the
Labs version, and can be enabled from the General tab in Gmail settings.”
In May, Google executive Sundar Pichai said that
75% of Gmail users access their accounts from mobile devices. For now, if they
want the ability to unsend emails, they’ll need to install the company’s Inbox
app rather than using its main Gmail app or mobile website. Gmail describes its
Labs experiments as “crazy experimental stuff ... a testing ground for
experimental features that aren’t quite ready for prime time”. Among those yet
to graduate to format status are an option to show an authentication icon next
to genuine emails from companies like eBay that spammers often try to fake, and
a “canned responses” feature to set up common replies as buttons next to Gmail’s
composition form.
( Courtesy:
Gulf News )
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