Sent wrong email? No sweat, just recall

 

 

 Now, recall is possible. And you've got to thank Gmail for that.
Sending an email with a bunch of expletives may be your online equivalent of exploding in a fit of rage. Or absentmindedly sending spicy gossip about a person to that very person. The after-effects often have to be dealt with later, causing enough embarrassment to make you cringe a long time.

Giving an email a second read can avoid many such goof-ups. Google's Gmail now gives users an "Undo Send" feature for exactly such situations. Introduced in Google's email programme, this feature holds a message for five seconds before sending it. Gmail's sent mail confirmation message now includes an "Undo" link. Clicking it will return a message to its draft form.

The feature does not allow users to recall a message that has already been sent. "It holds the message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button," Google said in its blog post on Thursday announcing the feature.

Last year, Google introduced a feature, "Mail Goggles", designed to prevent users from sending drunken emails by forcing users to solve five simple math problems in less than a minute.