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The Gmail “Whoops” Button

Posted by jonathan at 12:03pm EST on 03/23/2009

Recently added in the Gmail Labs, you can enable the option to “undo” an email you just sent. This is not like the AOL feature that was around 10+ years ago that actually let you retract emails sent to other AOL users, but rather this feature waits 5 seconds before actually sending the e-mail.

Gmail Undo

So after waiting 5 seconds, it will send your email. So what if you close the browser? It will still send your email even if you close the browser or navigate off the page.

Gmail e-mail sent

It’s a great safeguard if you immediately realize you sent the email to the wrong person. I have it enabled and might use it from time to time.

You can read more about it here, http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html.

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  1. TED

    Mar 30th, 2009

    The word “whoop” means to yell as in “whoop and hollar”. There is no H in woops.

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    • Jonathan Dingman

      Mar 30th, 2009

      Thanks TED, but I used it as I intended to. I’ve accidentally sent off emails in the past and realized “OH SNAP, I SHOULDNT HAVE SENT THAT!” and sometimes I hoot and hollar, because I certainly shouldn’t have sent it off.

      Thanks for the suggestion though :)

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