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  Re: Hitting send by mistake -- a solution Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-05 18:52 -0500

#38246 — Re: Hitting send by mistake -- a solution

On 2/5/2013 3:22 PM, TIm Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:41:21 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> [comment about a double post]
>>   > He must have hit the send button too early by mistake.
>>
>> I used to do that occasionally. The reason is that the default
>> position of [send] was on the left, under [File] and [Edit], and
>> sometimes I did not move the mouse up enough before clicking. With
>> Thunderbird, I was able to move [Send] to the right of the other
>> buttons, under nothing. It is much harder to accidentally click it.
>
> That assumes the error is made via the mouse.

It was for me ;-)

> In many email clients, Control+Enter will also result in sending.

Learn something every day. I see that Thunderbird also has

Send Later  Cntl+Shift+Enter for when working offline.

> Thunderbird has a confirmation option,

I will give it a try ...
Yes, it does ;-)


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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