How to Avoid Embarrassing Emails

Sometimes, I hit Send accidentally when a message was not yet ready for prime time. This can be quite embarrassing, especially if I thought that I could always change the text later — before sending the mail.

How do you avoid such embarrassment? Since it's difficult to disable the Send button, you should make sure the message does no harm even if you hit that button accidentally.

Avoid Embarrassing Emails

Either

• leave the address field empty or
• address the message to yourself while you are still composing it.

Only enter the final recipient when you are ready to send the mail.