Step by Step on How to Undo a Sent Email from Gmail

Gmail has a unique feature whereby you can cancel sending an email which you accidentally sent to the recipient. This feature was around since a few years ago; however, it was experimental and works only for a certain conditions. However, the feature is more stable right now and no longer part of the experiment and millions of users has already enjoying the advantage of this feature. In this article, we are going to show you step by step on how to “undo” the email so that it will not be sent to the recipient eventhough we clicked on the “send” button previously whether it is accidentally or not.

How to “Undo Send”

1. Click on the “gear” icon on the Gmail top right corner and click on Settings.


2. Look for “Undo Send” option under the “General” tab.


3. Enable the feature “Send cancellation period” and select the timing which is more comfortable for you. The recommended timing is “30 seconds”.


4. Click on “save” to confirm your settings.

How to use the feature

1. Compose a new email message in Gmail.


2. Enter the email, subject and message in your email as per normal and click “Send”.


3. Look for “Undo” option in the notification appeared after you click on the “Send” button.


4. Click on the “Undo” option.

You are done! With this feature becoming available, you will not have to worry if you send a wrong email, you can always “undo” it back.

Step by Step on How to Undo a Sent Email from Gmail

Bill Payment Feature from Google’s Gmail

There are a lot of things that you can do in Gmail. You can send out email, exchange notes with others as well as chat with online contacts. Bill Payment is another feature from Google’s Gmail. Apparently Google is reported to be in the development stage of “Pony Express”. With this service, users are able to pay bills or split costs with other Gmail users.

The service is linked directly to your bank accounts or debit cards. Before the user able to use the service, he/she needs to provide personal information such as name, address and Social Security Number via third-party company.

There is no confirmation whether Google will use “Pony Express” as the service name. However, the service is expected to be available for the public in the fourth quarter of the year. This is seen as a good move to Google since nowadays, more and more people are using computers and mobile devices to do mostly everything and it is no surprise to add the bill and payments into it.

There is also no further information on what Google would do with the data that it collects from the service.  Google’s Gmail has been around in market for 11 years and currently has more than 425 million users.

Bill Payment Feature from Google’s Gmail

Gmail services slowly trickling back into China

After about four days of being cut off from their Gmail, Chinese users are slowly getting back access to it. Gmail traffic in China is slowly picking up and is on the way to pre-outage status. The outage began right after Christmas when Gmail users in China found themselves blocked from using the services.

Google’s Transparency Report indicated that Gmail traffic into China showed a slight rise since yesterday morning. Many users reported restoration of the Gmail services, some still experienced problems.

The Financial Times has reported:

“The episode ended as mysteriously as it began — users of Gmail via POP and Imap servers, who had been frustrated for days trying to send and receive email, suddenly saw their inboxes full again, though some were still reporting delays in receiving emails and others said that their service had not returned.”

Gmail services in China seem to be slowly returning to the earlier status. Gmail’s website has been blocked since long by the “Great Firewall of China” that has barred Chinese users from accessing Gmail and other Google web services like Search and Drive through their browsers. People in China had access to it through third party apps such as Microsoft outlook and Apple Mail using POP, IMAP and SMAP but the Chinese government had blocked this loophole last week.

As for the reason for outage, Google says there is nothing technically wrong at their end. The state-run Global Times says it may be “caused by the China side, by Google itself or a combination of the two.”  Further adding that, “If the China side indeed blocked Gmail, the decision must have been prompted by newly emerged security reasons. If that is the case, Gmail users need to accept the reality of Gmail being suspended in China.”

Via Android Central, Engadget

Gmail services slowly trickling back into China

Steps to Enable Automatic Email Replies in Gmail

When you are planning to have a holiday and you do not wish to be disturbed by anyone and you happen to use Gmail as your official email, well, this entry is just for you. In this entry, we will show you on how to set up an automatic message informing the sender that the reply is going to take awhile by using the app’s settings menu called “Vacation responder”.

 

 

To enable the Gmail’s vacation responder, open the Gmail app on your Android smartphone or tablet and go to the settings menu. From there, tap on the email account you wish to enable the automatic replies for. The vacation responder will be listed there. After that, enter a short message which you want to convey to them. You also can include the phone number in case if you need to be reached urgently. It is also a good idea to set the date on which the responder to turn itself off. Once you got all this covered, flip “Off” switch to the “On” position and then hit “Done”.

The responder sends a reply to a given email address only once but if you are contacted by the same person after four days, they will receive another message and so on until the responder is turn off. Automatic replies are not sent to email addresses recognized as spam or as mailing lists you  are subscribed to.

 

Steps to Enable Automatic Email Replies in Gmail

Gmail new outlook about to follow latest Google+ UI

We have been hearing ample buzz so far about revamping the look of Android. The question remains as to what outline the redesign will follow.We’ve seen a probable Gmail renovation, and now we’re seeing another which takes a few suggestions from the recent redesign of Google+ for Android.

The leak coming from Yoel Kaseb,the same person that posted the Google+ redesign snapshots last month. He showed some of the changes that came in the G+ update that pushed out earlier this week. It is tough to tell how the two are connected since there are lot of differences between the two Gmail leaks. We don’t know about the version Kaseb posted is being newer than the one Geek.com, or if both the versions are completely following different test lanes.On the similarities end,both versions use the big plus symbol in the bottom right to compose a new message

The new outlook shows a similar idea to the latest version of Google+, which abandons the hamburger menu in support of a dropdown from the top bar.Excluding those two items, the new images appears quite a bit like the current version of Gmail. It doesn’t even consist of the full color top bar which we have seen as part of the Google+ redesign as well as the newer version of Google Keep.

Whatever the fact is, it gives the impression of redesign in the making, and we wouldn’t be amazed to get more answers about all of it at annual developer conference Google I/O scheduled next month in San Francisco.

Gmail new outlook about to follow latest Google+ UI

Gmail app for Android crosses 1 billion downloads

Gmail became the most popular email service in the world around two years ago. Now Gmail has reached another high. The Gmail app for Android crossed 1 billion downloads and has become Google Play Store’s first conventional app to have achieved this feat.

Actually, the Google Play Services had attained the 1 billion mark way back in January this year but since it is already preinstalled in devices running on Android 2.2 or higher version and having Google Play Store, it cannot really be counted as an achievement.

The Gmail app for Android reached the 1 billion milestone on May 6 as shown by the following figure from appbrain:

Gmail is automatically installed in Google Nexus and some other Google approved mobile phones but to cross the 1 billion mark, numerous other mobile users must have downloaded it. This shows the popularity of Google’s email.

 

The download counter shows the total number of unique accounts and not the total number of devices or individual users. It means that there may not be 1 billion active users of Gmail because the downloads logged may include duplicate accounts or accounts that have been later abandoned. In 2012, Google reported that it had 425 active monthly Gmail users worldwide. Looking to the immense popularity of Android phones, the number of active Gmail users must have grown substantially by now.

Gmail app for Android crosses 1 billion downloads

Google Trial Overhauled Interface for Gmail

 

Google’s Gmail has a long era holding itself, established itself as one of, if not the prime service for handling virtual mail. The Gmail team have processed to ensure that users have a strong and safe platform from which to keep track of the constant cycle of digital consistency, and following some newly-reveal info, the Web app is set for a notable overhaul that will include a completely new design.

Over a couple of years, there’s been an interactive effort by Gmail’s developers to make sure that the mobile apps are up to scrape. The Web service has been update to a degree, and is certainly more functional to start up, but evidently, there’s a lot more to come.

Data collected by the people at Geek.com, which is too supported up by some tasty-looking screen detentions, displays how Google may be designing to do away with the recent tab bar beside the left side, combining a drop-in menu in its place. It’s an even, up-to-date approach that takes on panel the Windows 8 indication of keeping menus unseen while not in use, and this, in turn, frees up area and provides a complete feeling of minimalism.

On the right-hand side, there’s a Hangouts panel, which can similarly be distorted / extended at the suitability of the user, and even however Gmail, at its present interval, isn’t accurately desperate out for developments, we’d surely welcome variations to this outcome from the search company.

Considerably full-screen Gmailing is concerned, this aspect would absolutely suit, and with improved classification to boot, it would not be difficult for a operator to scan over their emails at-a-glance.

It’s not unusual for some people to obtain hundreds of emails a day, and without a persuasive way of handling them, things quickly figure up to uncontrollable levels. With this new and better system in place, which also contains a pin system to change the existing starring of important email, you sense that some of these structures could make the chore of emailing a complete lot less awkward.

Google Trial Overhauled Interface for Gmail