Mail Goggles: Google’s Solution for Drunk Emailing
Jon Perlow, Gmail Engineer @ Google labs, has developed a simple new feature for gmail users, which may stop them from sending mails, they might regret later. He calls it Mail Goggles. People are calling it Google’s solution for drunk e-mailing. Mail goggle, when enabled, asks the user to solve 5 simple maths problems before sending a mail, to confirm he/she is in right frame of mind.
Sounds interesting? Want to try this new feature?
1. Go to Google labs in your mail settings
2. Enable Mail Goggles, and save changes.
3. Go to General tab, in Settings and select the day and time, when goggles should be active. (Friday and Saturday 10PM to 4 AM will be default days and time)
4. You can also set the difficulty level of your maths problem here.
When I tried this feature I came across these things.
1. After enabling the feature, I tried to sent a mail and got one pop-up box with 5 maths problems, with a time limit of 60 seconds. When I answered all of them correctly and clicked send button the box disappeared and mail was sent.
2. This time I purposely answered one question wrong and hit send button, and I was shown a message “WATER AND BED FOR YOU. OR TRY AGAIN”, with 5 more simple math problems to answer in another 60 seconds.
3. One interesting thing that I found out during this, if I solve the problems one time then I will be allowed to send as many emails as I want to, even after 15 – 20 mins. But this was not the case when I signed out and again signed in. This time I was asked to answer 5 math problems before sending a mail. Same thing happened when I switched browsers.
You wanna try it??? 
S.H.A.A.N.Y.A 
October 9th, 2008 at 9:15 am
kya time pass hai..
yeh google waale bhi na.. kuch na kuch karte rehte hai..
October 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Le Shaanya,
problem aageti le… naa avu lekka ella correct bidasidru naa kaLasbard aagitt anta mail kaLisibitte… Swalpa google davarga heLi nanna msg hoglardanga stop maadasla pleeeeasssssse!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Good one from Google!!
Otta gmail use madavru mats nag strong irbek anta aytu.. maggi bayipatha madbekaytappa eega… illandre 60 seconds nag answer heng madod
Nand ond question ada.. Google navru bare Gmail nag features add madlikattar… aadre Gtalk innu hange ada.. hosa features innu bande illa… simple feature like putting some smiley.. idu yaak innu bandilla anta tilitilla… Anna.. Google navrige nann ee request/complaint/suggestion kalsu
October 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
This is like outgoing “SPAM” protection!!! Had no clue there r so many features in my favorite mailbox,, But damn no use for me!!!