How to send and open confidential emails with Gmail?

How to send and open confidential emails with Gmail? Gmail is a service used by many people and companies; many often take advantage of this service to send sensitive data to other users and, although it does not have advanced encryption features, Gmail also allows you to take advantage of a mode that allows you to send messages and attachments in a confidential manner, a useful option for protecting sensitive data from access unauthorized.

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You can use confidential mode to set an expiration date for messages or revoke access at any time. For the recipients of the confidential message, the forwarding, copying, printing and downloading options will be deactivated.

What it takes to send confidential emails with Gmail?

All you need is a Gmail account and the web version or app for Android or iOS and proceed as follows:

1. Open Gmail and log in if necessary
2. Write the email (by clicking or tapping on “Write”)
3. In the window that opens, choose the icon with the padlock and the clock to select confidential mode: from the window in question it is possible to select the expiration (“expires in 1 day”, “expires in 1 week”, “expires in 1 month”, “expires in 3 months”, “expires in 5 years”) and choose whether or not to activate the request for a passcode (a code to be returned via SMS). If you use iPhone and iPad, the option in question is activated by tapping “More…”> Confidential mode
4. If we have requested the passcode, a telephone number must be provided in order for recipients to verify their identity using the passcode received by SMS
5. The user who will receive the message will be able to view it by clicking on “View” and confirming his identity by indicating the valid passcode sent to the telephone number indicated in the previous point. The expiration date will appear in the message. You can view the message and attachments until the expiration date or until the sender revokes access.

Keep in mind that even if the confidential mode serves to prevent recipients from sharing our email by mistake, it does not prevent them from taking screenshots or photos of messages or their attachments.