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It has happened to me a lot of time, the last time it happened, it cost me around 600 dollars. I sent out a hosting and email proposal on behalf of my company. I made the document in Microsoft Word, all nice and tidy. The email was written not in haste but with care (it is the ‘covering letter’, after all).

Only after a few days later, when the bidding time was over, I found out that I have sent just the ‘covering letter’ email without the attachment! The document was lying pretty on my desktop alright, but I had forgotten to attach it to the email that I had so carefully crafted. So I would understand the importance of this nifty little Gmail feature.

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The Forgotten Attachment Detector

The name of the feature is quite evident. And I don’t know about you, but any email that has an attachment, I have the word ‘attachment’ or ‘attached’ somewhere in that email. Gmail detects this and if there is no attachment, warns you of the same. I found this feature a month or so late but I am sure, it will be warning me of my mistake in the not-so-distant future.

How to Activate: This feature can be activated - for Gmail and Google Apps Gmail both - by clicking on Settings (top right corner of your Gmail window), then clicking on Labs. This feature is listed there.

How many times have you guys forgotten to attach documents in the email that is supposed to ‘bring the attachment’ ? This feature in Gmail is part of the whole Google experience where things get done with simplicity. (take a look at Gmail’s new features where you can treat emails as tasks and track accordingly, all right from your Gmail interface!)