Have you ever accidentally drunk e-mailed your ex? If you are as weird and awkward as I am, then you definitely have. So this one is for you homegirl!
There is a new Google Chrome extension called Dmail that allows you to self-destruct emails. Don’t you just love that word, Dmail, I say it in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice in my head. Anyway, Dmail can totes save your butt by giving your Gmail e-mails the ability to self-destruct. Bam! The names Blonde, Jane Blonde. Man, now you can feel SO cool.
Here is how it looks when you add the Google Chrome extension:
And you even get this little nifty Dmail icon thingy:
Remember how awesome it was when Gmail released their “undo send” function, which allows you to delete the message in 30 seconds after sending it. Buuuuut, usually you realise that you actually sent your boss that inappropriate e-mail instead of your boyfriend long after those thirty seconds are up. BTW sorry boss. Now this extension gives you the power to revoke a recipient’s access to that e-mail full of typos any-frickin-time. Can I hear a “Yesssss Google?!” You can even set a self-destruct timer such as an hour, a day or a week, so you can feel like a bad ass and the person doesn’t have ANY blackmail material on you. It’s like Snapchat, but way cooler. But, Dmail doesn’t delete the e-mail from the user’s inbox, only denies access to it. So it’s just there, staring at you.
According to The Verge users who receive a Dmail e-mail and don’t have the Chrome extension installed are shown a “This secure message was sent using Dmail. To view this message, simply click the button below” link that opens the email in a new tab. If they do have the Dmail extension installed, then the message is just shown in Gmail. Because you are part of the secret Dmail Fight Club. After a sender revokes access to an email, manually or automatically (1 hour/ day/ week), recipients are informed that the message has been destroyed and is no longer available. Muahahaha.
The extension is not available in Google Inbox as far as I can see, but that’s probably why it’s called Dmail and not Dinbox. #LOLsies
