Gmail’s Suprising AI

I was sending an email to a client this morning using Google Hosted Services, and I was prompted with an odd alert: “Did you mean to attach files?”

I thought that maybe it was a bug with the server is on, and disregarded it (clicked the cancel button).

It didn’t send.

Then I tried clicking send again, and the same alert popped up.  This time I read it.

“You wrote ‘I have attached’ in your message…”

Holy cow, and sure enough, the email I was replying to had that in the copy.  It has caused me headaches in this email trail, but would have saved me uncountable times before.

If only there were ways to disable it for previous emails in the chain.