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I can tell what you're thinking. Did he click Send or Save Now? Well, to tell you the truth, in all the excitement of composing that angry email, I kind of lost
by alexkay 17y ago
I can tell what you're thinking. Did he click Send or Save Now? Well, to tell you the truth, in all the excitement of composing that angry email, I kind of lost track myself. Good thing we can easily undo a sent mail! Oh wait, we totally can't. Consider my seat, or at least that particular rash email, ejected.
If you ever wished you could undo that sent email, there's an "Undo Send" feature in Gmail Labs which you can enable.
- viraptor 17y agoWorks only for emails sent to other gmail addresses, I guess?
- alexkay 17y agoIt just delays sending for a few seconds I guess. It shows the same orangy notification on top of the page as when you delete a message with a link to undo the send
- fjh 17y agoNo, it works for all email addresses. It basically just waits for a few seconds before actually sending.
- astine 17y agoAs I recall, it was an April fools prank not long ago.
- eru 17y agoYes, might have been. But the feature in the April fools prank was much more elaborate as far as I remember. The actual feature is useful enough, though.
- rm-rf 17y ago>If you ever wished... For about 10 seconds after you hit 'send'. I'm assuming all they do is hold the message a bit before starting delivery.
- alexkay 17y agoBut of course :)
- rm-rf 17y agoAs compared to a 'Enterprise' e-mail system, where I can retract any e-mail that has not yet been read by the recipient, even if it's hours later, without leaving bread crumbs in the recipients mailbox(s). That's a real nice feature that I'll sorely miss if I end up at an 'Enterprise' that uses a web based mail system.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoSure, assuming that the recipient is on the same system as you. Good luck picking out the breadcrumbs from a contact outside the company.
- xsmasher 17y agoWhich is another user interface issue. After doing this a few times internally a user may come to rely on this feature and be uncomfortably surprised to find that it doesn't work on emails outside the company.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoIt's not really relevant to the point he's trying to make but a simple low-tech hack is to write your message first, then put in the recipients email addresses. With no email address, any accidental send will fail.
- omellet 17y agoI do this for new emails, but it's kind of cumbersome for replies.
- JeremyBanks 17y agoI include the email addresses but append ".invalid", which achives the same result.
- chronomex 17y agoI tell mutt to automatically sign + encrypt outgoing email. Since I so rarely send mail to people who have PGP keys, mutt almost always asks me to pick a recipient key before it'll send.
- njharman 17y agoKnow what I do? Pay the fuck attention to and consider my actions prior to performing them. And don't sloppily click wherever on the screen.
- eru 17y agoThough I disagree with your standpoint, you comment might have had some value in the discussion, if it wasn't for the profanity and personal attack.
- mstevens 17y agoAnother good trick is that if you want to comment privately on someone else's email, always forward, never reply. That way you reduce the risk of accidentally emailing it to the person you're talking about.
- vaporstun 17y agoThis is true, but having to enable a GMail labs feature is a heck of a workaround for a simple UI issue. That's a bit like saying let's put this vase right next to this punching bag and don't worry, if the vase breaks, we've got some glue over here. Obviously this is hyperbole, but I think it illustrates my point. It would make much more sense to just separate the two very different elements. In fact, this is the point of this write-up and to offer a hackish workaround in lieu of a simple rearrangement is completely missing that point.
- generalk 17y agoThere is, and that's the first thing I thought, too. But the point is that the controls are mis-placed on the screen. This specific example may have a work-around, but it's just that: a work-around. I don't know if the need for the "Undo Send" labs feature would go down if the UI was changed or not, but it'd be interesting to know.
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoHa! Until you quoted it, I totally missed the reference! I guess he's not feeling lucky :-)