Melanie, a specialist in the digital world, presents us in her video “How to recover an email sent with Gmail?” a very practical trick to avoid errors in sending emails with gmail.
The problem of emails sent with errors
We've all had that lonely moment when, just after hitting “send,” we realize there's an attachment, recipient, or something else important missing.
How to unsend an email with Gmail
Fortunately, gmail offers a solution to avoid this kind of situation: the option “cancel sending“. In her video, Melanie explains how to go to Gmail settings to enable this option and increase the undo delay, which is 5 seconds by default. It also shows how to use this option by creating a new message and clicking “send”. During the next thirty seconds, she can cancel the sending of the message and modify it if necessary.
Melanie advises leaving the undo timeout at 30 seconds, as this allows enough time to notice an error in the message and correct it before it is sent. She explains that this trick is particularly useful on a phone, tablet or computer, and that even if the internet connection is lost, the message will remain available in sent messages for 30 seconds and will leave as soon as the connection is restored.
