$10 dollars says Millennials comprise the majority of their IT department.

I love when I tell people that I am a software engineer and they say “Oh me too! I work in IT!”
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Push the vendor to actually fix the issue. Suggesting that people just wipe everything and start over is an insanely stupid idea.

Wife’s iPhone 5s was having this issue, so I swapped her to an older 5 while I did a full wipe/reinstall of iOS. Tested as well as I could with no data service or third party apps, put her line back on the 5s and about 20 minutes later (still hadn’t installed apps or sync’d with iTunes) the problem came back. Before I…

No, Google does not have the capability to do that. Google doesn’t have control over non-Google mail servers. All they did following the court order there was delete a message from one of their OWN servers.

You actually cannot go into another email server and delete an email even if you sent it. The court order was for the receiving company (Google) to go in and manually delete it.

Which is marketing speak. Quote them on it, sure. But understand the basics of how it works, and report accurately on how this is implemented. This is a tech blog, after all.

But wasn’t it sent from a Goldman Sachs email address? How would the gmail undo send feature help in that instance?

I have to imagine that’s only the case of the email is sent to a gmail account though, yes? One sent from a gmail account to another company’s servers surely can’t be recalled once it's actually been sent (after the delay).

That configurable delay has been there for a year or more, at least on my account. The only difference is that the ‘beta’ label has been removed. Prior to the longer delay, it was a hard coded 5 second delay. Another user here linked to the Gmail blog, where they announced the feature back in 2009.

“Unsend” is just a stupid way to describe this. Goldman Sachs just asked for a court to get Google - the operator of the recipient’s email service - to delete it from their mailbox. It had nothing to do with Goldman Sachs themselves using Gmail.

1) This does not undo anything, it’s just a delay timer until the email actually sends.

The feature is evidently 6 years old: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-in…

Google doesn’t actually “unsend” the email.

It is a DELAY mean ... not an UNDO button. You can’t UNDO truly sent email.

It's not really unsending though? It's just delaying when it will send. It's not as if Google has the ability to reach into other websites email accounts and remove messages.

The google labs feature adds a delay to actually sending the email. You hit “send” and it saves your email and waits 30 seconds to send so that you can say “hey hold on wait”.

Unless Goldman Sachs uses Google Apps, which I doubt (but of course is possible), they would not, in fact have the capability of unsending the email.

Wow so progressive.
The beta feature just recently became a non-beta.

I don't understand why this is big news. I've had this feature in Gmail for at least a year at this point. Sure, it was labeled as beta, but it worked. Did people not know this option was available?