E-mail Blunder? Undo Send with Gmail

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Even the most anal retentive writer has made the blunder and sent an e-mail with a typo. Or, worse yet, replied to all when the message was meant for a party of one.

If you’re like me and the tens of millions of others who use Gmail as your primary email, you could get a mulligan.

An experimental feature called “Undo Send” has been launched within Google’s testing ground, Google Labs. The functionality will show an “Undo” pop-up that displays for five seconds. If you catch an error or change your mind, Gmail will retrieve the e-mail in draft form and give you the option to make changes or discard the message altogether.

In my world, the biggest offender is the missing file attachment.

In order to use this and other experimental features, you must have Google Labs activated. This can be done within the “Settings” tab of your Google Account.

Gmail is the third most popular e-mail site at this time, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see it eclipse the Yahoo/Microsoft alternatives in the future.

P.S. – Happy 5th birthday, Gmail. My how you’ve grown.