--- description: A new tool for Gmail lets you revoke access to messages whenever you please title: Now You Can Make That Embarrassing Email You Sent Self-Destruct image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a343fdec942aed5/69885c5e8e0601ebeb461896/dmail1.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Now You Can Make That Embarrassing Email You Sent Self-Destruct by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2015 5:24 PM CUT  Google Chrome by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2015 5:24 PM CUT Everyone’s fired off a hasty email that they desperately wish they could take back. A new Gmail tool will let you do that whenever you please. Dmail is [a new browser extension for Google Chrome](http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/dmail-makes-your-gmail-messages-self-destruct/ "undefined") that gives people more control of how long others can view their Gmail messages. When sending an email through Gmail, users can set a specific time when the message will self-destruct, ranging anywhere from an hour to a week. And even emails without a specific self-destruct timer can still be recalled by the sender at an time, making them unviewable to the recipient. The product was developed by the people who made the social bookmarking service Delicious. Eventually the team wants to expand the application to let users set self-destructing timers on other types of documents, such as PDFs. Google itself seems to understand the value of being able to take back an email as well. The company recently made its [Undo](http://time.com/3932586/google-gmail-undo-send/?xid=fbshare "undefined") feature, which allows users to delete an email up to 30 seconds after it’s sent, standard across Gmail. \[[TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/dmail-makes-your-gmail-messages-self-destruct/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3971509/gmail-dmail-google-chrome/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3971509/gmail-dmail-google-chrome/"},"headline":"Now You Can Make That Embarrassing Email You Sent Self-Destruct","datePublished":"2015-07-24T17:24:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:06:09.511Z","description":"A new tool for Gmail lets you revoke access to messages whenever you please","url":"https://time.com/3971509/gmail-dmail-google-chrome/","keywords":["Tech","Google","gmail","Email","messaging"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a343fdec942aed5/69885c5e8e0601ebeb461896/dmail1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a343fdec942aed5/69885c5e8e0601ebeb461896/dmail1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dmail","caption":"dmail","creditText":"Google Chrome","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3971509/gmail-dmail-google-chrome/","name":"Now You Can Make That Embarrassing Email You Sent Self-Destruct"}}]}] ```