Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: occam Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird Subject: Re: Whatever happened to the 'Cancel Message' option? Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 12:49:24 +0200 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <10ufsi7$2p038$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HtksLxoCZwXMpdcnmeM0Jwj5f8+PBTerUna31IxeNJXDGJxkzZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yh8ft7NfcS/JqlCDo7OnLaWIiCI= sha256:H1LsIKzkV6+NH3O7bf1NC/mVdpyEU/A35apQlU1iopM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.thunderbird:20531 On 18/05/2026 23:58, Mike Easter wrote: > J. P. Gilliver wrote: >> Mike Easter wrote: >> [] >>> Gmail's webmail function 'pauses' the sending of email a very few >>> seconds so that it is possible to halt the Send function if one is quick >>> enough. >>> >> Turnpike has a delay after you've "sent" (both emails and posts) - about >> a minute IIRR, can't remember if it was adjustable. Very useful! (And >> could be overridden if you really wanted something to go this instant.) >> >> Could be useful for TB (and others)! > > Since there are different kinds of humans, there are different kinds of > 'human natures'. For some people, the 'mental confirmation' of send > comes BEFORE they hit send; for some other people, they might tend to > have 'second thoughts' AFTER they 'overly hastily' send something > 'rashly'.  That is, some people do things rashly like email content, and > some people don't ever do anything like that; so they don't need any > kind of delay after the send button. > > In my case [OP] it is invariably a case of malfunctioning of TB and / or my USENET provider. Very often, I 'send' my message. TB is seen to be 'Assembling the message', but then nothing happens, or there is a message saying the 'Message could not be sent'. Fortunately this is not a consistent behaviour. After a second or third attempt, it is eventually 'sent'. Alas, sometimes the subsequent 'send' works and it appears alongside the original - which may have arrived with some delay.