At some point people have made mistakes with emails, whether it is forgetting to send attachments, sending to the wrong person, or even sending inappropriate emails. These things happen, but can be avoided if you take your time.
One good rule to follow don't put any email addresses in until after you've written the entire email and added the attachments. That way you can make sure everything you need is completed, then add all the email addresses you would like to send to.
Another good feature in gmail (I am not sure if other free email services have this) is the unsend feature.
To enable this feature
- go to the gear at the top of your gmail
- select settings
- scroll down to undo send and click enable
- you can select cancellation periods in 5, 10, 20, and 30 seconds
This allows you to have up to 30 seconds to cancel a sent email just in case you forgot something. I find this feature can be very helpful, as it's usually right after I hit send that I realized I forgot something. Unfortunately it won't help if you want to unsend after the 30 second mark, but at least if gives you a short window where you can fix something.
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