Forgotten Attachment Detector in Gmail
It happens to all of us – you send an email to someone telling that you’re attaching a file, but by the end of email you forget to actually attach it and press on send button. Most of the time you’re not even aware of it until the recipient points out it to you and then you send the follow up email with something like “… and now with the attached file 
”.
I’ve been using Gmail for few years now and I absolutely love it – fast, simple and useful. I can access it from anywhere I need and want. They’ve added a new feature a while ago called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”. And it saved me again few days ago: I was sending an email to my client mentioning the attached document and as always I pressed the Send button and a nice message popped up notifying me that I haven’t attached any file yet. That was wonderful. I felt joyful – as if it saved me from something unpleasant.
Google labs
This feature can be added to your Gmail account easily and most important it’s for free. In addition it works in all the popular browsers. No need to install anything and it works from anywhere you access your email.
How to enable it
Navigate to the Settings section of you account. Click on the Labs tab. You will be presented with a long list of available features that you can enable. This one is called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”. Just select the Enable option and press on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.
How to use
Click on the “Compose Mail” link and at the body of the new message type something like “attached is …”. Click on the Send button and you will be presented with the following message: “It seems that you might have forgotten to attach files. Send this message without attachments ?”.
I believe that it’s a very nice addition to the mail system. What do you think about it ?
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