Does GMail find attached files and read them?
Were you ever prompted by GMail to check if you have attached your files after hitting the ‘send’ button? I had that experience many times. That was then, a few years ago. GMail then had a ‘Forgotten Attachment Detector’ by a Jonathan K, tucked in, under the experimental features ‘labs’. One had to enable it. You do not see that feature under ‘labs’ anymore.
Now, in your GMail, when you compose a mail and hit the send button, it asks you, “‘did you mean to attach files? You wrote ‘see attached’ in your message, but there are no files attached. Send anyway?'” , a gentle reminder. I found out something else. This doesn’t work out all the time.
It is not that GMail reminds everyone that mention a ‘file’ or ‘attachment’ in their message. GMail responds to only to that phrase ‘see attached‘ or ‘find attached‘ and warns you if you have not, by then, attached any files.
Even the reminder that it throws up replicates it in the prompt. Check screen shots I took with those two different phrases.
1 – with see attached
See attached file reminder forgotten attachment detector
and
2 – with Find attached
GMail Forgotten Attachment Reminder
So just make sure that you use those words and I am sure that GMail would definitely remind you about those so called forgotten files. 🙂