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How to unsend emails before regret kicks in

Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com have email undo options but they work in a few seconds of clicking 'send'

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Joanna Stern | The Wall Street Journal
Regret is a terrible feeling. It’s especially bad right after you’ve sent that impulsively passive-aggressive email to your boss.

There’s good news, though. Popular email services offer undo send features. Bad news: you only have seconds to realize your mistake and hit “Undo.”

Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail all have features that delay the sending of your email message so you can quickly get it back and make edits, if needed. But they all work differently, and differ in how they behave on your phone versus your computer.

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Phone: In Google’s Gmail iOS app, the setting is turned on by default. Shockingly,