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Soft Send
Hold Gmail messages in a local queue for configurable delay
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Hold Gmail messages in a local queue for configurable delay
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Gmail gives you up to 30 seconds to regret a send. Soft Send gives you real breathing room: delay emails from 1 minute to 1 hour, then cancel, pause, or edit before they leave. It also catches mistakes Gmail won’t: missing attachments, first-time recipients, risky Reply-Alls, sensitive info, and rushed drafts. It’s still private: no server, no tracking. Your email stays local until Soft Send sends it through Gmail’s API.
Does delaying through the Gmail API mean the email actually queues on your local device, so if I close my laptop before the timer hits the email just sits there unsent until I open it again?
@englsz56 hi, yes, the timer is local and sending happens while Chrome is running, so quitting the browser before the timer delays the send. But it's never lost: the email is saved as a real Gmail draft the moment you queue it, and it sends on reopen (or you send it from Drafts). That's the tradeoff for having no server, your email never leaves your device except to reach Gmail's API. For typical short delays with the browser open, it's a non-issue.
@englsz56 also, in the next update I'm adding a notification so there's zero ambiguity: if the browser was closed past an email's send time, Soft Send will send it the moment you reopen Chrome and show a little "Sent 1 queued email that was waiting" message. So even in that edge case you'll always know exactly what went out and when.
the missing attachment check actually caught me before i shipped an embarrassing email, which alone is worth it. love that nothing sits on someone else's server
@ipekgilmuc85517 thank you for the support!
how does it actually catch the risky reply-all stuff, like is it keyword matching or something smarter? curious how many false positives i might hit
Genuinely useful, the attachment and reply-all catches saved me already. Local-only setup felt solid too.
Tried it for a day and the attachment check alone saved me from sending two docs without the file. Love that everything stays local, feels a lot calmer than racing the unsend button.