Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by alfiejohn_ on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:19PM (#5747339)

Undo send?

In order to do that, we would have to hold all outbound emails until a delay threshold was reached... I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by fiatpandas on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:13PM (#5747968)

What would make it a bad idea? Just delay sending it for a user-specified amount of time (I think Gmail does 5s, 10s, and 30s), then have the UI for undo-ing the send disappear after the time elapses

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by Tyr42 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:35PM (#5747478)

It's about 10 seconds, and it's saved me when I realize I forgot to attach stuff more than once.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by username111 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:37PM (#5747489)

Gmail has it as an option (labs last I used gmail), that is the best way I think to do it.

I don't ever find a need to undo an email though.

I believe it was only for like 20-30 seconds as well that it offered undo.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by pyre on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:16PM (#5748407)

  | Gmail has it as an option

Supposedly Gmail added this as an option because their infrastructure was setup in such a way that the delay was already there. They just made hooks so that you could cancel it before it was sent.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by Intermernet on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @04:39AM (#5749539)

Any chance you could hunt down a reference for this? I regularly test email servers from my Gmail account (amongst others) and I've found that their outgoing messages hit my mail servers almost instantly.

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