Questions about the use or functioning of any and all web-based email such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, etc.
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Personal Gmail Statistics
I want to view my personal Gmail statistics.
How many emails I am sending or receiving in avg. in one day/month/week?
How many emails I am sending to a specific contact?
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Mute Facebook comment threads after clicking Like
When I Like or comment on a Facebook entry, I get notified on every single comment for the rest of the thread. Sometimes I want that, and sometimes I don't.
I know I can opt out of these ...
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How can I subscribe to a Google mailing list with a non-Google e-mail address?
Some projects host their mailing lists on Google Groups, like this: http://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious
I'm an old-fashioned guy, and I don't like reading mail on the web. I would very much ...
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Unique Problem with EMail Addresses
I have a unique problem. My GMail address is given to banks, Electricity Department, Water Department and so on and so forth. Let us assume, my email address is John@GMail.com. There are lots of other ...
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Can a few employees share the same inbox in Gmail?
I am administrator for a shop. We have a few employees but we use one email address for customers, shop@example.com
It would be nice to organize this in some way so that the employees can have their ...
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In Gmail, how do I create a contact from a recipient of an email?
In Gmail, how do I create a contact from a recipient of an email? For sender, there is 'Add to Contact List' but there doesn't appear to be anything similar for the To: or Cc: fields.
Is there an ...
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Show text part of a multipart email in Gmail
An email sent with Content-Type of 'multipart/alternative' (often) contains two copies of the email: one html, one plaintext.
Gmail displays the html version of the email by default, but how do I ...
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Can you search GMAIL based on senders IP adress
Someone is trying to fool me. They are sending mails to me and I'm pretty sure it is someone I know.
Via "Show original message" I found the IP address of the sender. With the assumption it is ...
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Email is not secure, but what about Gmail using HTTPS, and if sending to myself?
I sometimes send myself some notes using Gmail, but I think if it is regular email, anybody on the Internet backbone or routing place can read your email, so it is not private...
But Gmail uses ...
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Bouncing emails from Google Apps (Gmail)?
I'm a user of Google Apps for receiving my email in. My inbox is the "Catch all" for my domain which is very convenient in the way I would like to use it.
In some special cases I would like to bounce ...
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Upload to Google Docs through email
How do I upload a document to Google Docs through an email attachment?
I remember seeing a feature of being able to email my document through and have it saved in Google Docs.
Does this still work ...
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Catch-all address on Windows Live domains
I know that GMail for your domain has the ability to catch all email that is sent to a non existing address and forward it to a domain's internal address.
eg: doesnotexist@mydomain.com is redirected ...
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Importing email into Gmail from Zimbra exported file
I've managed to rip myself away from Zimbra and get myself some Gmail goodness.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite ready to give up my archive of 5000+ emails from the last few years just yet and would ...
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How can I generate a list of delivered-to addresses in gmail?
I really want to turn off the catch-all option in my Google Apps email service. Before I do that however, I would like to get an idea about the usernames that are actually received mail on a ...
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How to disable content type html in Gmail?
I'd like to receive all my emails with content-type text/plain by default while using gmail (no clients), by default gmail uses content-type text/html. Thanks!
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Importing to Gmail, no “Accounts and Import” tab
I have an email account that I would like to import all archived message from into Gmail. The Gmail help page on this topic says that this is done under the "Accounts and Import" tab in the settings. ...
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Setting Gravatar images to same by disregarding any plus addressing in emails
How can I set up Gravatar to use the same image for any plus or tagged email address used?
I have subscribed to websites such as Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Github, etc. using a "+" email address ...
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How do I forward my Gmail to my Facebook email address?
I have been trying to find a way to forward emails from my Gmail address to my Facebook email address. When I went to Gmail settings and tried to set up email forwarding from there, Gmail was unable ...
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Assign alias email domain names in Gmail
At my university, the email addresses
name@newcastle.ac.uk
name@ncl.ac.uk
are the same. This makes things a bit messy in Gmail, since the contacts now have two email addresses, and when searching ...
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How secure is sending an email from GMail?
When you send an email from GMail to someone what measures do they have in place to make sure that my email is not read by man in the middle attacks, or other servers that the email is routed through. ...
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How can I send a HTML message from Gmail?
How can I send a HTML message from Gmail?
HTML:
<p style="background-color:green; padding: 30px;">Hello</p>
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Is Gmail for business still free [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Free Google Apps could not be found
I remember a while back Google offered free email to businesses, where you host your email with them and still use emails like ...
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Whats the best way to handle and monitor multiple email accounts without using desktop applications such as outlook?
I have many email account on different domains, on gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol, and my company email account.
I don't like applications that download my emails on my PC such as outlook, i like to ...
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Compose an email in Gmail without seeing my inbox
I would like to compose an email in Gmail, but if I open my inbox I find I get distracted with all the emails that have arrived since I last looked. Is there a URL I can go to to compose an email ...
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Insert HTML markup into Gmail signature
Is there any way to add HTML markup signature in Gmail settings? I mean, insert some HTML markup without using rich editor, just inserting HTML?
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Changing my primary email
Here is my problem, at one point in the past i created another Facebook account to give me more credits in a Facebook game. I used my personal email that i currently use every day. Now i have deleted ...
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Does OpenID expose your email address to websites?
Does OpenID expose your email address to the websites that use the service? For example, when using stackoverflow with google openID provider is my google address exposed to stackoverflow? (It seems ...
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In Gmail can I set up a filter for all messages between a group of people?
I run a choir consisting of a few friends (12 to be precise) and we tend to communicate via mass email to each other.
I want to set up a filter in GMail so that it will label all emails to do with ...
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Automating filter rule creation in gmail?
I get cases where I start getting e-mails from people I am not interested in getting.
These are not SPAM, just boring e-mails.
In such cases I tend to create the filter rule that makes all the ...
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Implementation of Reply-To header in Gmail
Gmail has always ignored the Reply-To header in the e-mail generated by contact forms submitted from my web site. So when I try to reply a message like this:
From: webmaster@example.com
To: ...
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How can I auto-delete some spam from Gmail?
I really like GMail's spam filters. However, they occasionally catch not-spam so I like to quickly scan the contents of spam folder every so often, marking "not spam" to the few messages that aren't ...
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Can the administrator download/mirror everyone's email from Google Apps for Business?
Does Google Apps for Business provide a way to download all emails from all accounts periodically? The format of the download is not important. We'd just not want to set something up for each ...
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Changing name when sending mail from same account in Gmail?
let's say my Gmail is js@gmail.com. Sometimes I want to send mail as John, and sometimes as John Smith from the same address. Is there a way to do this without having to change the "Send mail as" ...
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EU Gmail substitute [closed]
I want a web-based e-mail service which
displays e-mails sorted by conversation;
can import e-mails from POP3 accounts;
can send e-mails from other accounts (either by faking the From
header or by ...
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How do I figure out why people aren't getting my emails from Gmail?
I use Gmail for all my email, and most of the domains I own are verified by Google and I can send mail through them (using smtp.google.com). This mostly seems to work, but there are a few people who ...
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Looking for tool to answer emails with “canned/standard responses” (Customer Support)
We're a small customer support (3 people), mainly interacting via mails (~100 mails per day).
We're currently using GMail with canned (standard) responses - but the major flaw is that I cannot easily ...
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Youtube email notifications not working
I was an active user on Youtube, and Youtube was sending me emails when somebody was posting a new comment or uploading a new video (where I was subscribed).
About 4 months I was inactive on Youtube, ...
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I don't receive my email verifications in Trello
I've just been suggested to use Trello, but I have one problem.
I get the message to verify my email address... but I don't receive the email to verify the address. What to do?
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How can I get GMail to make the default address I'm sending an email from be the same as the To address in a reply?
I have two email addresses that I use with GMail, let's call them personal@gmail.com and me@mycompany.com, the latter is integrated with SMTP and POP. When I want to send an email I can choose which ...
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How to see the “receiver address” in Gmail?
I receive e-mails for multiple e-mail addresses on my Gmail. In my Inbox, how can I see what e-mail address the specific e-mail was sent to?
If I choose "show original", the only relevant information ...
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Is there a way to search only the “read” emails in Gmail?
Sometimes some mails that I need to search are mostly among those that I have read.
Is there a way to perform this search in Gmail?
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Gmail — Respond from the correct email
Does anyone know how to automatically respond from the email, where i received mail from automatically.
Because I forward my work email to my gmail, and i want to respond automatically without ...
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How can I reliably deliver email to Hotmail users?
One of my customers (annoyingly) uses HotMail for his primary email address. A lot of the time, my emails to him get returned undeliverable due an over-zealous spam filter.
My email is from my own ...
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Forward a complete conversation/thread in Gmail?
I have a long chain of 20+ emails in GMail I wish to forward to someone else -- I don't want to forward them individually. How can I do that?
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Same e-mail user, different address?
I was wondering why using foo.bar@gmail.com works but not foo.bar@outlook.com.
In Gmail, foo.bar@gmail.com and foobar@gmail.com (and any combination of periods in the username) is equivalent.
Is ...
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Does Gmail still have the option to import email from other email accounts?
I recall there was an option in Gmail email settings to import emails from another email account but I no longer see it. Is this option still available?
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Schedule an email to send at a specific date
How do you set up a service to schedule email sending?
I want to send a mail on a specific date and I have tried Gmail, Yahoo! and Zimbra.
I didn't find any options to send an email automatically ...
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Permanently block domain in gmail
My inbox is being destroyed right now - i'm for some reason getting 3-4 messages a minute from a specific host (box432.bluehost.com). I would really like to just prevent any and all email from his ...
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Is there a way to reject unwanted messages in Gmail?
Somebody mentioned to me a long time ago that this is a feature in Outlook, but I never needed it so I'm not even sure what it's called.
I've been getting more and more mis-directed email lately, ...
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Upload image to Google+ profile via email
Is it possible to upload an image to my Google+ profile via email?
All other social services seems to having this feature available but I can't find it on Google+.
