Gmail is arguably the most popular email service provider today, so you can imagine the sheer volume of emails that are mistakenly sent using Gmail. Let’s first dive into the Undo Send Email feature in Gmail. So how do Gmail and other popular Email Service Providers allow you to unsend or UNDO an email? Well, they do this with a clever little trick. Unlike most modern chat apps, the ability to recall an email message is not built into the core email technology - meaning that once an email is sent, it is truly sent. You see, the email technology as we know it today is very old and hasn’t evolved much in recent years. So how do you unsend an email that you’ve already sent? How can you UNDO an email that was mistakenly sent before you could finish typing? Read on to know all about unsending and recalling emails.Ĭan you Unsend an Email? Before we learn how to unsend an email, let us first understand what it actually means to “UNDO” the email. However, there are some other mistakes that you may want to desperately avoid, such as missing an attachment, spelling the name of the recipient wrong, forgetting to (B)CC someone, etc. Usually, minor typos in emails are overlooked by the recipients.
After all, it’s only natural to make mistakes in something as mundane as sending an email. We all dread those moments when you realize that you’ve just sent out an important email with a glaring typo in it.
