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Google will be providing an option to make it easier to avoid getting into trouble with a misdirected or inappropriate email. Google has introduced an option to cancel the delivery of an email within 30 seconds after hitting the send button and made it a standard safeguard in Google's Gmail.

Gmail users can now the activate the protection in Gmail's settings. The tool will delay the delivery of emails from five to 30 seconds after the send button is hit, to give users a chance to retrieve the email which is mistakenly sent to the wrong person or is an ill-conceived communique.

This is a welcome step from Gmail. Many users had occasions in which they have sent the mail to a wrong address, but only realized after hitting the send button. Now the mail sending can be cancelled.

By Premji