I think AOL used to have this. The problem I had was that suddenly, 'send' was more like 'save as draft', so I'd only get the "I shouldn't have sent that!" vibe when it was already permanently sent.
Ever wanted to withdraw an email you just sent?
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#12I've been in the same situation, but don't think your solution is the best, maybe changing a little bit the email UI in order to let you see the common errors.
- Spell checking.
- Letting you know if you haven't attached any file (in a way that you can't miss it).
- About rephrasing a paragraph, maybe saving drafts before sending your email (as intellectronica says in a comment), but it should be something the user does, not the UI.
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#13Enh, I dunno. I kind of see this in the same light as /.'s way of allowing you to preview, but not edit or delete, a comment. On the average, I think it brings up the quality of posts on an individual basis, the longer a person has regularly posted there. The nearest thing to a feature like this that I would want would be biometrics in my keyboard / mouse / desk / chair that wouldn't let an email send if I was clearly enraged and / or drunk. ;)
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#14Notes and Outlook both do this badly. You may be able to build a reasonable business by using HTML email with includes that can be recalled before they're read. After they're read, game over.
If there's one thing worse than an e-mail you wish you hadn't sent it is the Unsuccessful Recall Attempt.
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#15Too bad someone can't just remove your soon-to-be-regretted letters from the outgoing mail a la Samuel Clemens' wife.
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#16Pretty easy to implement in any application just let the app wait for 1 minute before actually sending anything and show the user an undo button.
Of course if you notice something later that won't help you. I copied this concept from a blog but I don't remember which one.
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#17I agree completely; I too sometimes have "sender's remorse". I even made a suggestion to Gmail about a month ago that they extend their useful "Undo" feature to sent emails (presumably implemented with some sort of small but non-negligible time delay before actually sending). I ended by noting that "this may seem like a strange feature to request, but I bet people would love it". I guess there are at least two.
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#18If you are using outlook, you can set up an outlook rule to automatically delay and sent mail by X amount of minutes.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/use-outlook-...
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#19That is the best reason to use the in-site messaging of the popular social networking sites. They all allow this.
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#20This idea was suggested by Paul Buchheit in July. I think it's a good idea. I occasionally hit 'send' when I mean 'delete' and once I do, that's it, it's sent. PB's original idea was that just about every action should be undo-able.
The original idea. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html