Google's 'Undo Send' Option for Gmail is Finally Official (email, server, work)

[plwhit]

Finally...

Actually, it's technically not a new feature, though it is now official. For the past six years, the Undo Send feature existed as part of Gmail Labs, a landing spot for experimental features that aren't a part of the official Gmail experience. Well, the Undo Send command has finally graduated.

Google's 'Undo Send' Option for Gmail is Finally Official - Maximum PC

[ansky]

So I'm assuming the way this works is that if you have the setting set to 30 seconds, for example, when you click the Send button Gmail will just hold your email for 30 seconds until it actually sends.

[jimazee]

Originally Posted by ansky

So I'm assuming the way this works is that if you have the setting set to 30 seconds, for example, when you click the Send button Gmail will just hold your email for 30 seconds until it actually sends.

Probably...it's an example of a 'feature' that can be declared from what was once viewed as a 'bug/problem' n'est-ce pas?

Soon they will upgrade it to allow specifying any duration delay or a 'scheduled' delivery time...

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by ansky

So I'm assuming the way this works is that if you have the setting set to 30 seconds, for example, when you click the Send button Gmail will just hold your email for 30 seconds until it actually sends.

Correct, it's actually a delay. Once really sent it can't be retrieved as it's now sitting on someone else's server. The only way they would able to delete it after that is if it were sent to internal Gmail account or they had some kind of agreement with other services like Live etc. .