Maybe you are extremely irritated with a colleague, or worse, your boss and want to vent your anger. So you send an e-mail.
Practically just as you press the send button, you realise it might not have been such a great idea. For all the hotheads out there, we might have a solution for you. That is, if you use Gmail.
In June this year Gmail activated a function called Undo Send. If you make a typo or regret sending a message, you can undo the action by enabling Undo send. This setting gives you the option to take back a message you just sent.
To enable Undo Send:
- Click the gear in the top right
. - Select Settings.
- Scroll down to Undo Send and click Enable.
- Set the cancellation period (the amount of time you have to decide if you want to unsend an email).
- Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
If you had Undo Send turned on in Gmail Labs, your Undo Send setting will be on by default.
To give you time to undo, Gmail delays sending the message for a few seconds. Under the Undo Send function you can also set the cancellation period to 1, 3 or 20 seconds. Once that window of time passes the email is sent normally and cannot be undone as it is already transferred from your mail server to the recipient’s mail server. If you don’t select Undo within the time limit, your message will be sent.
Just take note that Undo send may not work if you experience connection issues.
For all the Outlook users out there, don’t despair. Outlook also has a function to recall messages. Just as with Gmail there are also limitations as to what you can do with the recall function. The success or failure of a recall depends on the recipients’ settings in Microsoft Outlook.
For example, if the message has already been read by the recipient, it will not be recalled. If it has been delivered, both the new and old message will be in the recipient’s mailbox. However, the recipient will be informed that you, the sender, deleted the message from his or her mailbox.
For full instructions on how to use Outlook’s recall function, click here.
[SOURCE: www.howtogeek.com]
Dalk is jy baie vies vir `n kollega, of erger – jou baas – en wil jy jou frustrasie uitdruk. En dan stuur jy `n e-pos.
Die oomblik nadat jy die send-knoppie gedruk het, besef jy dit was waarskynlik nie so `n goeie idee nie. Vir al die impulsiewes daarbuite het Gmail `n veiligheidsnet ingebou.
In Junie vanjaar het Gmail die Undo Send funksie geaktiveer. As jy `n tikfout maak of spyt is oor `n boodskap, kan jy dit ongedaan maak deur Undo send te aktiveer. Hierdie verstelling gee jou die opsie om die boodskap wat jy gestuur het te herroep.
Om Undo Send te aktiveer:
- Kliek op die rat in die regterkantse hoek bo .
- Kies Settings.
- Rol af tot by Undo Send en kliek Enable.
- Kies die kansellasie-tydperk (die tydperk wat jy het om te besluit of jy die e-pos wil herroep)
- Kliek Save Changes onderaan die bladsy.
Indien jy Undo Send aangesit het in Gmail Labs, sal die Undo Send verstelling by verstek aan wees.
Om jou die geleentheid gee om `n e-pos te herroep, vertraag Gmail die versending vir `n paar sekondes. Sodra die tydperk verby is en die e-pos, soos normaal gestuur is, kan dit nie gestop word nie aangesien dit reeds oorgestuur is van jou e-posbediener na die ontvanger se e-posbediener. As jy nie Undo binne die tydbeperking kies nie, sal jou boodskap gestuur word.
Neem kennis dat Undo send moontlik nie mag werk as jy probleme met jou verbinding het nie.
Vir al die Outlook-gebruikers is daar ook `n oplossing. Outlook het `n opsie op boodskappe te herroep. Net soos met Gmail is daar ook beperkinge op wat jy kan doen met die herroep-funksie. Die sukses of mislukking hang af van die ontvanger se verstellings in Microsoft Outlook.
Byvoorbeeld, as die boodskap reeds deur die ontvanger gelees is, sal dit nie herroep word nie. Indien dit reeds afgelewer is, sal beide die nuwe en ou boodskappe in die ontvanger se posbus lê. Die ontvanger sal wel ingelig word dat jy, die versender, die boodskap uit sy posbus verwyder het.
Vir volledige instruksies oor die gebruik van Outlook se herroepfunksie, kliek hier.
[BRON: www.howtogeek.com]
