E-MAIL wars are fought with neither bullets nor bloodshed, but can go on for days on end, sapping the warring parties and wasting time.

Relationship manager Kevin Siew, 36, has seen many such wars break out as a result of one party hitting the 'send' key without thinking.

Along comes a tool to defuse the fallout from offensive e-mail messages - a Gmail application called Mail Goggles, which promises to 'prevent many of you out there from sending messages you will wish you hadn't'.

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