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After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send'
jones_supa writes: Since 2009, Google has been beta testing a feature in Gmail called "Undo Send." It allows you to delay emails up to 30 seconds from when you press the "Send" button so you can take them back if you immediately decide it was a bad idea to press the send button. Google announced in a blog post that Undo Send is becoming an official feature. For users who already had the Undo Send beta enabled, the feature will remain on, and those who didn't can turn it on via the General tab under Settings. Users can choose if they want to hold their mail for 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
With future upgrades to the functionality for the foreseeable future.
More importantly, can we get an "Undo Post" on Slashdot for when we accidentally say something we regret?
Better yet, how about a collective "Undo Submit" to rescind articles that everyone agrees the editors should never have allowed through?
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
How about 5 or 10 mins? I know "scheduled" sending can do this, but this sounds a lot easier - and the usual time of, "oh crap - shouldn't have sent that!", time period for me is about 5 mins (I've found the answer, realized it went to the wrong person, etc.)...
Since January an increasing number of gmail users are losing sent emails. They show as sent on the sender's side but never show up at the destination server. They aren't blocked as spam, they aren't rejected just lost due sending timeouts. I have lost at least 6 emails since last week that I sent but I confirmed were never received. Worst it is usually blocked to other gmail users, or Google apps domain addresses. How can emails fail silently like that?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Isn't this a bit like setting the clock ahead 10 minutes so you won't be late to appointments?
I swear there used to be an attachment-specific lab that would check your outgoing email for keywords that imply an attachment, and if they were present but you didn't attach anything, would warn you before sending. I don't see it on the list of labs now though. Maybe I hallucinated it.
The [Undo Post] button has been mislabeled as [Continue Editing], but it works even better than an undo post because you can just change your text as many times as you want until you hit the [Commit Forever] button. Note that the actual [Post] button has been mislabeled as [Preview] and the [Commit Forever] button has been mislabeled as [Post]. Slashdot is aware of this bug in the new code, but there are no resources available to fix it in the foreseeable future.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Either you didn't, or we both did.
Users can choose if they want to hold their mail for 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
Can we choose between seconds and hours? It takes time for the Vodka to wear off.
All I see under Settings > General are Language, Maximum page size, Signature, Personal level indicators, and Vacation response. Thee is nothing about "Undo". What gives, Google??
Not if you prefer the basic HTML interface over their fancy-schmancy "Standard View"; UNDO SEND is not available for me.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Been using it for so long, I'd just assumed it was already an official part of gmail
Sofia Vergara: Yay! It unsendided!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
A programmable send delay? Seriously? That's more stupid than the recycle bin!
To this day, there is no better feature of emails i.e. Microsoft Exchange here - than Message Recall. The ability to recall a message that's not yet been read or opened by the recipient - maybe due to the wrong recipient, or something you wished to edit. That's a lot more useful than the limited 30 second margin to undo a send.
Why couldn't Sendmail - bloated as it is - be tweaked to support such a feature?
It's built in functionality. Write "Find attached" in a gmail message and don't attach anything, you will get a popup.
AOL had the "unsend" feature decades ago, which actually "unsended" emails after they were sent.
So did Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange.
This "feature" is a 30-second delay on outbound messages, a clever hack, but how is this news to anyone?
It's the "beer goggles" extension re-warmed for clueless Gmail users as it graduates out of Gmail Labs.
Feh.
Try harder, Google. Try harder.
Kriston
It's not sent anywhere until the time is up.
There are 2 types of people in the world - those who understand decimal and those who don't.
6 years testing seems totally appropriate.
Agile coding at its best.
The people who will use this feature are too impatient to read their email before sending, yet patient enough to wait six fucking years for a stopwatch.
6 years in beta test for silly "undo send", and yet still no option to disable automatic top-posting when replying to messages, or proper quoting of HTML messages.
how does this work through IMAP?
It doesn't, I think.
Who is even using g-mail via web interface these days?
Everyone except the few nerds using gmail via IMAP.
I laugh a little inside when I get email recall requests. They also make me want to read the original email more.
I like this feature and I use it. It has saved me from many typos and a few reconsidered emails. But I think it's a poorly implemented feature. It should be a side-effect feature of a generally implemented send-later feature. The default timeout would be 20 seconds, and you could choose from a popup any longer wait period or a specific time. I would love that feature: send my brother's happy-birthday email tomorrow morning, for instance.
Can your host files - or any other /etc files - work in conjunction w/ Sendmail to enable email recall, if a recipient hasn't yet read it? If not, why not?