From time to time, all of us have been guilty of sending an email we didn’t mean to send. You know, a gushy love letter to a guy or girl we just met. Or perhaps you sent a piece of “rage mail” to someone who really pissed you off. We really didn’t mean to send it. Or rather, we wish that we hadn’t.

Well, smarty pants Google has invented a sent-to-soon, whoops or drunk email saver. It’s called “Mail Goggles.” What it does is simple and slightly irritating but helpful to those of us prone to sending out emails that we regret. (I can’t be the only one that’s done this before.)

When enabled (read: turned on) “Mail Goggles” requires the sender to solve a couple of math problems before the email is sent. And according to Gmail’s blog, this method will help verify you’re in the right state of mind. Their logic: If you can figure out the answers to math problems, you are probably sober enough to send the email.

I suppose it’s worth a try, especially if you’ve been sending out emails late at night that you find regrettable in the morning. Once activated, you can play with “Mail Goggles” settings but its defaults are auto-on for late nights on the weekends. (How convenient!)

To turn-on Mail Goggles, click on your “settings” tab after signing into your Gmail account. You should see the “Labs” option at the top. Click it and scroll down to “Mail Goggles” and select enable. Now, you are one step closer to ending drunk mailing!

It’s worth noting that although Mail Goggles is a good idea, it’s not the first of its kind. Microsoft Outlook has a feature for drunk emails. It’s called “recall.” And if you’re lucky, your recipient also uses Outlook (Microsoft Exchange Server) and hasn’t viewed your email yet. When recall works, it cleverly returns your email and can place a new one in the recipients mailbox.

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