Like my cute hand-drawing?
is probably the first word you say when you realize that you just sent an email that wasn’t meant to be sent yet. Well some of you probably use a more “dramatic” word than that, but let’s not go into it 
If you are one of the few people who sometimes regret sending an email a few seconds after you click on that “Send” button, then you’ll be pleased with the latest feature from Gmail: “Undo Send”. This is an even better feature than Gmail’s Goggle.
How does it work?
By enabling this feature, Gmail will hold sending the email for 5 seconds. If in those 5 seconds you press the “Undo” link, Gmail will stop the sending process and you can add your forgotten attachments or holding your hasty words back.
To enable Gmail’s Undo Send feature, simply click on the Lab icon on the top of your Gmail’s dashboard page.
Then, Enable the feature (just search for “Undo send” on your browser to quickly go to the feature).
Don't forget to Save the changes
Too bad that we don’t have options yet to specify the delay (it’s defaulted to 5 seconds now). From my past experience, however, a few seconds were all I need to realize how foolish and clumsy I am.
Source: Gmail’s official blog.
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Hah, one of the FEW people who regret this? To me it’s like the scene in office space where he slides the envelope under his manager’s door and then immediately changes his mind and tries to get it back.
I guess I send a lot of email regrets.
While 5 seconds isn’t much time, it’s nice to see a step in the direction of “unsend”
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I guess you can still open the door and get the envelope back using a desperate measure but unless you can hack the email server, then you’re totally doomed
As soon as I saw your drawing (which is cute, by the way), I know instantly what you’re gonna share, and I was right! lol.. but I do love this feature about Gmail, save some embarassement of apologising for forgetting the attachment, which is quite a frequent mistake of mine. ^^
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Hehe I was so paranoid after I sent an empty email to a client and also when I forgot to attach my resume in the past (when I was applying for jobs)
Cool hand drawing, really nice. Looking forward more cool hand drawing masterpiece from you
Then you should probably check out my other masterpiece on the Entrecard guide section!
Great feature. I will check it out today. I hope they have a setting to increase that 5 seconds to x seconds.
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