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Undo send in Gmail (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Internet/7400.html)
Did you hit the email send button too soon? No problem, if you use Gmail that is.
5 seconds is a bit short. I think maybe a minute?
They could just make it customizable. Everything you want to send goes into a queue and automatically gets sent after a preset time. You can either undo, or force it to send immediately if it's urgent.
Fudzy
21-03-2009, 05:39 PM
All heil the mighty gmail!
DJNgoma
21-03-2009, 05:46 PM
5 seconds is a bit short. I think maybe a minute?
Maybe you can suggest setting a timing option so you can choose from 5 seconds to 5 hours:eek:.
Fudzy
21-03-2009, 05:57 PM
I'd be pretty pissed off if my mail wasn't in it's recipients mailbox in less than 2 or 3 minutes.
hj2k_x
21-03-2009, 05:59 PM
Maybe you can suggest setting a timing option so you can choose from 5 seconds to 5 hours:eek:.
That would seem a sensible idea to me.
Peder
21-03-2009, 06:17 PM
This is very good... Just yesterday i sent a email prematurely... :(
Smiley_lauf
21-03-2009, 07:28 PM
rather have an outbox function--and set manual send or auto send with this 5 sec delay (all clients have that as standard)
PeterCH
21-03-2009, 07:28 PM
Great Japanese idea. Some newer Sharp keitai (Japanese mobile phones) also have a voice mail - voice slow down function to help you make out what the other person is saying in his message.
The Google idea would work also to recall messages sent to other Gmail members. That should be possible, they could pull back unread messages from other peoples' mailboxes.
Unread does not mean you haven't seen the message.
sunsoffun
22-03-2009, 12:48 PM
sweet!
AirWolf
23-03-2009, 05:54 AM
5 seconds is a bit short. I think maybe a minute?
+1
The option to set the time delay yourself would have added value to this idea.
AirWolf
23-03-2009, 05:59 AM
Ooh, the article mentions Japan. Time to spew some irrelevant comment about Japan:
Great Japanese idea. Some newer Sharp keitai (Japanese mobile phones) also have a voice mail - voice slow down function to help you make out what the other person is saying in his message.
Saajid
23-03-2009, 12:06 PM
Ooh, the article mentions Japan. Time to spew some irrelevant comment about Japan:
Great Japanese idea. Some newer Sharp keitai (Japanese mobile phones) also have a voice mail - voice slow down function to help you make out what the other person is saying in his message.
Bwahahahaha.. :p
PC Direct
23-03-2009, 12:29 PM
I think this is a good idea! You just gotta be quick tho. 5sec is not much.. :P
PeterCH
23-03-2009, 01:08 PM
Ooh, the article mentions Japan. Time to spew some irrelevant comment about Japan:
Well, the Japanese have these little aesthetic subtleties nailed down. They're ahead of us.
My example was another example, after this one, how they come up with very useful features no-one here
has thought of. I for one would love a voicemail slow down message and visual voice mail won't
cut it if a foreign language is used.
PeterCH
23-03-2009, 01:10 PM
+1
The option to set the time delay yourself would have added value to this idea.
...And made it more cumbersome to non-technologically inclined users.
PeterCH
23-03-2009, 01:12 PM
Unread does not mean you haven't seen the message.
Well unread as in 'not read yet' - I dunno, does Gmail give an auto -preview of messages? Unread as in user not logged in and not able to see the first preview sentence of the email, or maybe can see it. So if you send an email to another Gmail user by mistake, you can recall it. :)
tjunyat
24-03-2009, 06:20 AM
Sounds like an awesome feature, sure could've saved a number of people I know, myself included, from those embarrassing moments.