“Are you sure you meant to send this to me?”

I doubt if there is anyone in email land who hasn’t mistakenly sent an email to the wrong recipient. When we receive the “Are you sure you meant to send this to me?” we feel stupid when we realize we didn’t. Google may have found a simple solution to this problem.

On their blog site they state the following:

“Got the wrong Bob?” is a new Labs feature aimed at sparing you this kind of embarrassment. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify when you’ve accidentally included the wrong person — before it’s too late.

f you normally email Bob Smith together with Tim and Angela, but this time you added Bob Jones instead, we’ll warn you that it might be a mistake. Note that this only works if you’re emailing more than two people at once.

While we were at it, we also changed the name of “Suggest more recipients” to “Don’t forget Bob” — the two related Labs features just kind of went together better this way.

If you want to test “Got the wrong Bob?” out, try faking a mistake like this:
1) Think of three people you often email together.
2) Compose a message to two of them.
3) Start typing the third member of the group (for help you can use one of the people we suggest in “Don’t forget Bob”), but then auto-complete on the wrong name.

This is going to be a life saver for those who use their Gmail accounts for business where a mistake could be costly. For home users it will also add value in that we may avoid an embarrassment for an errant email. Gmail continues to lead the email evolution with new features being added almost daily.

Comments welcome.

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