* How Gmail's UNDO SEND works ?
Question: Google added an "undo" to their send button. How can that work? We know that once you send an email it's out of your control?
GMail's "undo send" is not really an "undo" at all. It's certainly helpful, but it's not what you might think.
The undo send feature, which you'll find in Settings -> Labs, is really more like a "delay before sending" feature. When enabled, it "holds on" to your email for 5 seconds before the email is really sent.
5 seconds.
That's all the time you have to rethink your send.
After that time has elapsed, there is no undo.
It works because GMail doesn't actually send your mail for 5 seconds. They're holding on to it before sending it, in case you want to change your mind.
This is actually very similar to a technique mentioned by Outlook users, where you can set up a rule to delay the send of a message by some amount of time. Change your mind within that time, and you can stop Outlook from sending your message.
once your email has actually been sent, there's no way to "undo" it; there's no way to get it back.
Think before you send. No matter what.
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