For several days it has been possible to activate the new Gmail, launched by Google to improve all e-mail services, with a renewed graphic interface and some very special new functions. Among these, that of confidential messages was announced, to be sent in private mode, with the ability to automatically delete itself after a certain period of time, even from the recipient's mailbox.
From today, this function has become ready for use and it is therefore possible to immediately activate the reserved mode of Gmail (in the new Gmail) to send expiring messages that self-destruct on their own and which can be password protected .
The reserved mode on Gmail adds access restrictions to the e-mails sent, in order to protect the sensitive information contained, set time limits and passcodes, prevent the recipient from being able to print the mail and also from being able to forward, download, copy and paste the text .
Gmail therefore supports confidential emails from now on, so that we can send information to someone without it being read by strangers and without giving us the possibility of being able to keep that message and recover it in the future.
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To send messages with expiration and password protection in Gmail simply go to write a new message or reply to an email received.
In the composition window of the email, you must then press the button at the bottom which has the icon with a padlock and a clock on it, in the row of the Send button.
By pressing that button, the configuration window of the reserved mode opens and you can choose whether to activate one or both of the options below which are:
- Set Deadline : to have the message automatically deleted from the recipient's inbox after a week or after a day, after a month, after 3 months or after 5 years.
The expiration date is displayed next to the selection menu so you know immediately when the email expires.
At the moment there is no way to put a personalized date.
- Request passcode via SMS : this option means that the password needed to read the email can be sent via SMS to the contact or not.
If you are not asked to send the passcode via SMS, if the recipient uses Gmail he can open the message directly, otherwise, if he does not use Gmail, he will receive the password with another email.
If you activate the passcode via SMS, you will then have to write, after pressing the Send button, the recipient's phone number, so that he can receive the password via SMS to open our private message.
Whoever receives the message sent confidentially using the confidential mode, therefore only has a certain period of time to view the email and must have received the access code via SMS if it has been requested.
The email you receive, therefore, does not immediately contain the message, but the acknowledgment of receipt of an email sent via " Gmail Confedential Mode ", with a button to click to read it.
If the recipient does not use Gmail, he will be forced to log in with a Google account to read the message.
Those who send the message, can think about it when they want and expire it ahead of time, so that it can no longer be opened by the recipient.
To destroy a message sent before its expiry, you can open the message from the Sent box and then press the button with three dots next to the Reply button, to find the " revoke access " option that does, practically, destroy the message and delete.
Attachments and files are not supported in this private and confidential Gmail mode.
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