Gmail integrates AIM

Check your gmail and see if its enabled!

Gmail IMAP

Updates for Gmail come thick and fast after so many years :-)

Gmail now has IMAP for select users - if you are lucky to be in this phase of updates - you will see IMAP settings at Settings > Forwarding - IMAP/POP

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Gmail - more space - 4GB now!

Gmail features you may not know

Gmail has a lot of features :-) .. The gmail team has put up a list of features that are very useful once you know them ..

Here are the list of gmail features


1. Create event

2. Offline chat

3. Advanced search

4. Conversation update notification

5. Smart links on the right

6. Gmail for mobile application

7. Reply by chat

8. Gmail gadget for iGoogle

9. Open attachments in Google Docs & Spreadsheets, or view as slideshow

10. Custom "from"

Gmail viral collaborative video

Gmail POP: Username password not accepted

Another Gmail quirk - I don't know why it happened to me, but if you get this error

This is what their official help suggests

"We suggest making some adjustments in your mail client's settings so you aren't always prompted to enter your username and password. Please check the following settings in your mail client:

• Make sure that you entered @gmail.com after your username. For example: john.doe@gmail.com
• Re-enter your password to ensure that it's correct. Keep in mind that passwords are case-sensitive.
• Make sure your mail client isn't set to check for new mail too often. If your mail client checks for new messages more than once every 10 minutes, your client might repeatedly request your username and password.

Now, please follow the steps below to resolve the problem:

1. Disable all POP clients you're using to read Gmail messages. (If you use one at work and one at home, please disable both.)
2. From the computer on which your POP logins are failing, visit http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
3. Enter your Gmail username and password, and the letters in the distorted picture.
4. Once you have successfully logged in, restart your mail client and try to download your mail."

Worked for me :)

Gmail Paper - Get printouts of your mails!

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Gmail - Move to Trash - Shortcut Key

If you want to move selected Gmail messages to Trash

Use the following Shortcut Key - # (Shift-3)

Would you pay for GMail?

The best web email service might have a pay version with possibly unlimited storage space.

Sergey Brin indicated that it might be similar to Google's photo hosting service

"We can't afford to give away everything for free,"

Would you pay for it?

Gmail Search Power Tips!

Search on your Gmail like a pro with these power tips! Ofcourse you could use the search options to do these, but learning the "keyword" options is plain faster and little more powerful especially when you want to find mails between particular dates.

There are few keywords that you can use in the search box you see above (appears when you load Gmail)

from:
to:
subject:
label:
after:
before:
in:
is:
has:

For the above, you could provide the following options as below

from:

from: {email address}
from: {name}

to:

to : {email address}
to : {name}

subject:

subject: {subject}

after:

after: {date in any known format} - For example : March 25, 10/10/2006, etc

before:

before: {date in any known format} - For example : March 25, 10/10/2006, etc

in:

in: inbox (Searches Inbox)
in: chat (Searches Chat)
in: drafts (Searches Drafts)
in: spam (Searches spam)
in: trash (Searches Trash)
in: anywhere (Searches All the Mail including Trash & Spam)


is:

is: starred (Searches Starred Mail)
is: sent (Searches Sent Mail)
is:read (Searches Read Mail)
is:unread (Searches Unread Mail)

has:

has:attachment (Checks for mail with Attachment)

label:

label: {label_name} (Checks in mail with Label name)

Other general options include

{search_keyword} and - {search_keyword} which means search for {search_keyword} or doesn't have {search_keyword} in your mail


Example:

Find all mail which was addressed to techflock before 19th Dec 2006 and After 1st November 2006 and has networking but not basic in the mail with IMP as label

Your search query would be

before:2006/12/19 after:2006/11/01 to:techflock label:IMP in:anywhere networking -basic

I use these filters to re-label (or delete) old mails. You could create Filters too... however, Google doesn't have the option to use before: after: keywords in your filter.

Gmail Tragedy!

The first message, posted on the Google Groups forum on December 19, stated “Found my account clean..nothing in Inbox, contacts ,sent mail..How can all these information residing in different folders disappear? ..How to write to gmail help team to restore the account..is it possible?..Where to report this abuse?.Any help ..Welcome..Thanks in advance ps101″

And Google says

Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th. Once we found out about this issue, we worked day and night to confirm that only a few accounts were affected and to do whatever we could to restore as much of the users’ accounts as we could. We’ve also reached out to the people who were affected to apologize and to work with them to restore the email from any personal backup they might have.

We know how important Gmail is to our users – we use it ourselves for our corporate email. We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident.

Read more and before that .. BACKUP your MAIL!