Free email service owned by Google. It supports POP3 and IMAP
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How to access an external IMAP account in Gmail, without using a middle man POP mail client?
I have a university campus email address which is of the clunky Microsoft 'Office Web Access' type. They at least offer IMAP access to it, and I've done its email in Outlook thus far so it's been ...
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Hotkeys for GMail's “New Compose”
Does GMail's "New Compose" support hotkeys?
With the old compose I could label mails I am writing with easily with the hotkey l. See Label outgoing emails in Gmail when composing the mail
But with ...
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How do a fully quote previous email in gmail using “r” shortcut?
Currently, with the new version of gmail, the default behavior for the following two situations is inconsistently different.
Reply clicking reply button. This fully quotes the previous email ...
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Remove the name of the recipient from Gmail’s autocomplete
When Gmail autocompletes a recepient's email it goes something like: "John Stewart" <john@stewart.net>,.
Can I force Gmail to remove the name (John Stewart) and leave only the email?
For ...
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I want a loud or annoying notification of unsent drafts in Gmail
From time to time, I forget to send an email. Sure, I can just look at the number of drafts. But what I'd really like would be a hard-to-miss alert whenever I am about to close my Gmail that there are ...
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How to group chat contacts in Gmail side chat list?
I have quite a lot contacts whom I chat with.
I already installed lab in Gmail which puts the chat list to the right side to have more space.
Now I'd like to group the contacts in the online list in ...
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How to block “via” senders in gmail?
I have this annoying problem in gmail. Spammers are by-passing the gmail spam filters and are so clever that I am not able to create a manual filter of my own to block them. They are sending me junk ...
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Undeliverable email warning not forwarded from gmail
I have a Google Mail account which should forward all emails to my main email account.
It works in 99% of cases with my current filters:
Matches: is:spam Do this: Never send it to Spam
Matches: ...
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GmailApp service for consumer Gmail accounts?
I successfully set up Gmail Snooze in my google apps accounts (for work) and I like it so much that I want to set it up for my personal email, too (@gmail.com).
I followed all the same instructions, ...
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Is there a setting/extension to disable HTML formatting in received Gmail messages?
I want all INBOX messages in gmail to appear in plain text.
When I read the messages I receive,
I just want everything appearing in a consistent font and size of my choice.
No html formatting ...
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How do you search for the frequency with which a few specific words are used in gmail chats with a specific person?
A friend asked me to make an info-graph in celebration of he and his wife having a baby due pretty soon.
I have an idea for it - frequency of baby terms (baby, babies, kid, kids) by month in our ...
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Automatic logout of Gmail
Gmail is logging me out of all of my mail accounts with the following alert message:
You have been signed out of this account.
This may have happened automatically because another user signed ...
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Is there any way to improve Gmail's new compose?
I like the general idea behind the new compose but I hate how hard it is to get to the formatting controls. I'm somebody who constantly does funny indents, manually links and quotes things.
The new ...
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How to recover google account when two factor authentication is enabled but codes are lost
Does anyone know how one can recover your Gmail account which has Two Factor Authentication enabled when
you lose the printed codes?
your authorized phone + laptop are unavailable?
I lost my ...
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Download embedded-images attachments from Gmail
Usually, Gmail offers a link to download all attachments. However, someone sent me a HTML e-mail where the attachments are images inside the e-mail. They are technically attachments, but there is no ...
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Show text/plain even if both text/plain and text/html are sent
Someone sent me an e-mail in both text and HTML, with embedded (attached) images.
One of the images is 3311-pixel wide. As a consequence, gmail widens the text box accordingly, which makes the e-mail ...
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History of Label use in GMail?
Is there a way to view a revision history of labels in GMail-- for instance, to find all messages that where Archived in a particular day?
Use case: used Boomerang program to have 100+ messages ...
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How to resize a messages in Gmail even narrower?
Gmail message windows can stretch far and wide:
And they can be narrowed, spilling text over into the next line, while keeping all text visible.
But at a certain point (about 450px wide), ...
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access old username and change to use it on accounts
I can't access several accounts I created, probably because I didn't know what password I'd used, before the one I finally created. I don't like that this last account I created is the one being used ...
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In Gmail, can I base my “send from” address on a filter/label?
In short:
In Gmail, is there a way to let the "send from" address change automatically depending on which label the mail has?
In long:
I have 4 accounts connected to Gmail.
Lets say ...
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Gmail can't recover the username to access my android phone
My son has a blackberry which has pattern password. His younger brother has pressed it too many times and it is now locked. It is asking for his gmail username but he does not know it. He has never ...
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Accidentally blocked my server from accessing Gmail account; how to undo?
Gmail asked me if I recognized an IP, I said I didn't, and it was blocked.
Turns out that IP was from a server of mine that uses a Gmail account. It has already used it in the past, I don't know why ...
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How to search Gmail mails that have only one conversation
Is there any way I can find all the emails that I sent but have not been replied to by anyone? (One email conversation.)
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'p' character not working inside Gmail Tasks
I'm using Chrome 20.0.1132.57 m and always have one tab open with Gmail. I also have the Tasks window open. When typing within the tasks window, the 'p' character never shows up. I'm able to write the ...
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Attachment failure in Gmail
I am a Gmail user. I have been facing a problem while attaching any file, even around 30-40kb; the progress bar starts, moves ahead and than starts again and again and it takes hours and does not ...
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Set Gmail to reply text-only to only a specific address
I just subscribed to a mailing list that (still) requests that messages sent to it be text-only, no exceptions. (Their FAQ references storage space being at a premium on PDAs such as Palm Pilots.)
...
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Running Hotmail conversations oldest to newest (like Gmail)
Hotmail has Gmail-style conversations nowadays, but they're exactly backwards, in my personal opinion: they run newest to oldest, rather than oldest to newest. I can change the order of the thread ...
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Ampersand in Google Apps email address/nickname?
I have gotten email from an external person addressed to an account x&y@domain.com instead of xny@domain.com.
& is a valid character in email addresses.
It is caught in the catchall and I ...
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Email to groups in the same domain bounce due to spam
I am a admin of a domain that uses gmail. In the past week gmail started bouncing email sent to a group (user to user emails still work) from a user in the same domain. If the email is sent to the ...
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What are the advantages of using the Gmail app for mailchimp rather than just mailchimp.com?
What are the advantages of using the Gmail app for mailchimp rather than just mailchimp.com?
In particular I'm looking to use groups from my Gmail contacts list to send bulk email, with emails ...
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How to write a clean gmail filter for SVN commits?
I have a dozen or so SVN projects that generate a few dozen email messages every day, each with subject line like this "[SVN projectname] in branch/trunk list of files".
I want to send these email ...
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Google Voice and Gmail don't get along, contact-wise?
There seem to be problems between the new Gmail contact manager and the one GV uses. One of my friends just got a GV number and I added it manually to his years-old entry in my Gmail contacts as a ...
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How to disable highlighting of email, website, and phone in Gmail signature
I would like to to make my email signature nicer, like this:
Currently it looks like this:
When I remove all formatting from my signature, the email, phone, and website shows without highlights ...
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How can I automatically run a gmail filter on existing emails every day?
I'd like to automatically archive certain emails if I haven't dont it myself after they're, say, a week old. I could use a filter to archive these emails, but I'd have to run the filter myself ...
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Are gmail replies using the same compose paradigm?
The new gmail compose experience has advantages but also drawbacks, the most obvious being the fact that it uses different paradigms for new emails and for replies. Let me explain: if I click the ...
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Gmail's “Show trimmed content” - is there a keyboard shortcut?
So far I like the "new compose experience" with one exception: I always want to "Show trimmed content" when replying.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for that? I haven't been able to find one, if there ...
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Using GYB to back up a gmail account and import select labels to Google apps
I have a gmail account and a Google apps email account. I successfully used GYB to back up the gmail account. I'd now like to restore select labels from the gmail account into the Google apps email ...
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Signing in to Google through very different IP addresses
Because I connect to many different VPNs and make it appear that I'm in very different geographical locations, how do I add a whitelist of IP addresses that are allowed to sign in to my account so I ...
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How to block all Emails addressed to someone else (not 'dot' problem)?
I get spam emails from sources I don't recognize AND addressed to emails that aren't even close to mine (not talking about the dot '.' issue that many have discussed in other threads).
It gets to my ...
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gmail: filter to move email to the “sent folder”
Is it possible to create a gmail filter to redirect incoming email (those sent by me to me) to the sent folder?
I use a VBA script to send email from Excel through smtp.googlemail.com. Unfortunately, ...
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img src being stripped by gmail
in the body of an html e-mail I send
<img style="display:block" alt="Revel Resorts | AC NJ" src="http://revel.mydelphic.com/sites/all/themes/revel/images/r_01.jpg" border="0" height="128" ...
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Is it possible to use custom font in GMail?
Gmail only provides these fonts:
sans serif
serif
comic sans ms
courier new
garamound
georgia
tahoma
trebuchet ms
verdana
But I don't wanna use any of those. I want to use the font of my own ...
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Setting up a custom filter on gmail / sync desktop contacts with google contacts
We have an awful lot of our incoming emails in gmail going into junk. What i was wandering was can i set up a filter that will say : if i have previously sent emails to a person then never mark it as ...
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Can't verify my new Gmail account
I got this email from Google after setting up my new account:
Congratulations on creating your brand new Gmail address, ****@gmail.com. Please keep this email for your records, as it contains an ...
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How can I set the (tel:)phone handler in Gmail?
Gmail is smart enough to turn telephone numbers into links (most of the time) and so they make them available to click on:
They are a standard telephone link in the format of:
<a ...
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How to see Gmail message subject when scrolling down?
In Gmail the message subject is at the top of the page and at the tab title.
When I scroll down a conversation I can't see the subject and a lot of times the tab title is too narrow for me to get the ...
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Besides GMail, do any email providers support wildcard address with spam filtering? (e.g. *@example.com)
I'm looking for an email service not provided by Google that supports wildcard or 'catch-all' email addresses at my custom domain. Spam filtering must occur on the wildcard/catch-all addresses. Paid ...
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How can I remove the “on behalf of” message when sending from a delegated account?
Please note that this is not the same as this question which is to do with removing the message for send as aliases.
If I delegate access to my Gmail account to somebody else, they are able to access ...
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Google host email failure - diagnostic code smtp; 550-5.1.1
I'm having difficulties figuring out exactly why this particular email address has stopped working. The domain is hosted by HostGator, but the associated email account is hosted by Google.
This is ...
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How to sync two Gmail accounts
I have my college Id, collegeid@college.com (hosted on google apps) and a personal gmail id, username@gmail.com
I created forward-to address in collegeid@college.com as username+college@gmail.com
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