Prevent Yourself from sending Accidental Emails in Gmail

Yes that's apparently, the main theme for this latest addition to the Gmail Labs. It will be useful to those who send messages without thinking (includes me) and then later regret it. It can also be used in situations when you are drunk and are accidentally transferring all the balance in your bank account to your neighbor's.

Gmail labs is known for its addictive tweaks. I personally like to use my Gmail with mouse gestures and custom label shortcuts. But today's addition seems to be a bit odd and out of place. In simple words, it will ask you to solve some math related questions before sending your email. This would actually be helpful if you are subconscious and/or not in your senses (but who would write an email in this kind of situation?).

Nevertheless, it can be tweaked further to enable at specific times and days of the week. By default its enabled for the late hours on weekends, when the probability of "drunk emails" is high. Most of us would just pass by this new feature because solving more math problems would be the last thing you would want to do when sending in your calculus assignment late night. But for those of us who have suffered break-ups due to such situations, this addon might prove useful.

  • Google forgot that I dont drink at all and I dont really have a girlfriend...so this aint exactly awesome news fr me :(
  • Haha! poor Google! forgot to consider that :P
  • Is there a way to set it up to prevent from emailing specific address'. Since I use multiple clients and addresses, I don't want someone to get my personal address, just 'cause I accidently reply to a message gMail's pop retrieved. :(
  • I hate this feature!!! 2day I wrote 3 mails and canceled to send them all because of this annoying maths. If Google insists to continue this feature, they should add only one question instead of 5 or otherwise I gonna shift to Yahoo!
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