Free email service owned by Google. It supports POP3 and IMAP
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Webapp to delete certain Gmail messages older than n days?
I need to delete certain Gmail messages older than n days (I can get the whole set though a search string). I know this is not possible directly within Gmail (see for instance this question) so I am ...
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How can I recover my GMail account?
I have a GMail account that I haven't used in ages so I've forgotten the login name I used to sign up with. I've forgotten the recovery e-mail address setup on the account but I can remember my ...
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How do I set up a small mailing list / newsletter with Gmail?
Can I setup kind of a mailing list / newsletter from my Gmail / GApps account?
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How do I split conversations in Gmail?
I posted an ad on a website and when people respond, I get an email from post@example.com titled like this:
Reply to your "1999 Pontiac Sunfire - As Is" ad on Example.com
If two people reply to ...
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Does Gmail, Google Docs & Google Calendar Offline work with Offline Storage in Firefox 4 and above?
I currently use Google Gears with Gmail and Google Calendar to keep an offline copy of my mail and calendar. I use Firefox 3.6, but I'm looking at upgrading to Firefox 4.
I read that HTML5 has ...
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Does marking an email as spam in Gmail affect the filter for everyone?
If I mark something as spam in Gmail, does that modify only my spam filter or does it affect the spam filter for other users?
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How to mark as unread just one message and not the entire conversation in Gmail
Sometimes I want to mark just one message as unread and not tue entire conversation, so when I open the conversation only the unread message is readily visible (like when new messages are added to a ...
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Can you create rules in Gmail?
In MS Outlook, you can create rules so different kinds of mail can go in different folders. Can you do the same thing in Gmail, so all your emails from a list go in a specific subfolder instead of ...
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Put together several messages into one conversation in Gmail
I think Gmail is the first webmail provider that features the Conversation -- having only one mailbox entry for messages in the same thread. Neat.
However, a downside to this is that when you edit ...
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Where do my emails go when I click on 'Archive' in Gmail?
I selected a few important mails and mistakenly clicked on Archive.
I don't know where that mails are? Where can I find them?
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Forward only important mail in gmail
Is there a way to forward (or to get in any other way) the important mail as they arrive (or shortly after that) from the priority inbox to another mail account without forwarding the unimportant ...
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When using Gmail with multiple accounts, should each account have a spam filter?
I currently have Gmail set up to read mail from several different accounts, most of them are other Gmail accounts. I'm wondering what the best way to set up the spam filters for these accounts is. Do ...
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How to show messages whose only label is “Inbox”?
I have a ton of labels. How do I tell Gmail to show all messages which are in my INBOX and have no label?
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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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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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Google Contacts - how to see which contacts aren't in a group?
In Google Contacts/Gmail you can assign a contact to a group (or more than one group). I use this so that on my Android phone I can filter the list of contacts down to just Work colleagues, just ...
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Setting the default font/text size for Gmail messages
When I compose a new Gmail message, the text defaults to a small font size.
How do I reverse this and make it use the normal-sized font again?
I'm not sure what I've done to cause it to use the ...
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How is my password sent across when I check gmails/access bank site?
What encryption is used when my password is sent across in gmails/when I do online banking? RSA? DSA? Public-private key encryption?. In key encryption, which entity is assigned a public/private key? ...
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Search by thread rather than email in Gmail
Gmail seems to have a flaw insofar as it acts as though tags apply only to the first email in a thread rather than to the whole thread (or to all emails in a thread).
This means that if I send an ...
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Picasa people tags in Google contacts
I use face tags in picasa,and picasa allows me to choose people in my Gmail contacts.
Is there a way that I could get that person's icon in picasa to show as that same person's icon in my contacts?
...
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Send a copy of outbound messages to another address
Is there a way to have a copy of any message sent from a gmail account sent to another address?
I've got any messages coming to my address copied to another (see this question for one solution, ...
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Batch processing filters in Gmail
So basically, I have many different labels in my Gmail account. I've set up my filters to attach labels such as "newsletters" and "social" to these emails as they come in.
Now, once these emails are ...
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How can I send a windows executable via Gmail?
Gmail seems to prevent the sending of windows .EXE files as attachments. What's the easiest and most reliable way around this?
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How do I delete all my mail from my Gmail account?
I want to clear my mail from my Gmail account, but don't feel like selecting every message (also the archived ones).
Is there an easy way to delete all my mail from Gmail without having to delete my ...
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Can I auto-forward my Gmail to another address?
I'm kind of paranoid about my email and I don't want it to be on Google's servers only. Especially after my account got hacked and all my email got deleted.
So I would like to auto-forward my Gmail ...
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Display mail size in Gmail
As I'm running out of space I need to delete space wasting mails. Is there any option in Gmail that adds a size column in the mail list or even sorts them by size?
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Attach multiple files to an email from Google Docs
I want to email two files as attachments to a single email in Gmail without downloading them from Google Docs. When viewing all items in Docs, the "Email as attachment" item is disabled in the Share ...
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Where can I see the date I created my Gmail account?
Well, it's a long time I'm using my Gmail account. Today, I had a talk with my friends about the date we created our Gmail accounts and we all had some guesses about it. Is there any option in Gmail ...
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Is it possible to sort your email in GMail by something other than the date received?
I want to sort my email in GMail by the sender, rather than the date received, is there a way to do this?
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Running Out of Space on GMail, Now What?
I have a personal account that's running out of space (mostly due to family members emailing huge pictures). I plan to move those all to Flickr, but in the mean time, what will happen when my GMail ...
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How can I stop Gmail from serving me auto translations based on my IP address?
When I go to Gmail website (FireFox, if this info is needed) with a different IP (IP from Germany), they automatically translate the page to German.
How do I stop this behavior (in other words I want ...
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Is there a way to not have the new gmail Signature add “--” before it?
Gmail now supports multiple rich-text signatures. However it prepends "--" before the signature. Is there a way to disable this?
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Does email from one Gmail account to another ever leave the Gmail system?
I ask because I connect to Gmail over HTTPS and if emails sent from one account to another (or the same account, just to back something up) don't actually leave Google then it's end-to-end email ...
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How can I bind Ctrl + L to “Create Link” in Gmail?
While composing a message in Gmail is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut that will create a new link by pressing the CTRL+L combination?
When I want to create a link in sites like Stack ...
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Is there a way to permanently hide the “Chat” and “Invite a Friend” sections on left side panel of GMail?
On the left hand column of GMail I see my mailbox. Below the list of all my mailboxes, I get a section for "Chat" which lists my recent contacts, and below that, a section for "Invite a Friend".
I'd ...
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More spam is making it into my gmail inbox - is it due to something I've done?
In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed an increase in the number of spam messages not caught by the gmail spam filter. Before that, I can't remember more than one or two message over the last ...
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Gmail “suspicious sign-in prevented” message - is it legit?
I got 3 mails from Gmail today; one each for my 3 seperate Gmail accounts, saying someone from this IP: 109.200.4.130 tried to log-in and it was prevented, and that I should reset my password by ...
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How to migrate all my Google data to another acount?
I'm using Gmail, Google Reader, calendar, Picasaweb and other services.
I've decide to change my Google ID. And I am moving Gmail data first (via POP3), but it is a very hard job. I'm afraid to move ...
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Archive all my current messages in Trash in Gmail
I want to archive all my current messages in Trash in Gmail, but can't find the archive button anywhere.
How do I archive trashed messages?
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How can I import existing emails into a new Google Apps email account?
I'm working on setting up a Google Apps account. As part of the switch, I'd like to import old emails for all users on the domain. I thought I could do this by using the mail fetcher functionality. ...
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Is there any way to tell which of my messages have been auto-forwarded?
I'm using Gmail, but I suppose this would be useful in any webmail application.
Someone I know got into my Gmail account and set up an auto-forwarding address (Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP ...
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Is it possible to only use Google Apps for Gmail?
I am interested in using Gmail via Google apps for my domain. I have had success with the emails but not with the website portion. My question is would it be possible to only use Gmail Google Apps as ...
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How to connect Google Talk with a non-Gmail Google account
I have a non-Gmail Google Account that I use for Google Plus.
In Google Plus, I can chat with my contacts but I wish I could use the Google Talk software to chat outside the browser.
How can I get ...
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Log into Gmail without SSL
How do I log into or use Gmail without having to go through the HTTPS or SSL version?
Since the 443 ports for HTTPS is filtered in Iran, is there any alternative method of logging into Gmail which ...
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How to open my Google account and my Google Apps account at the same time?
I have a "normal" Google account I use privately and I have a company account on Google Apps. Since yesterday, it was possible to open both, side by side in two tabs of my browser. When I try this ...
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Import Yahoo! Mail and contacts to Gmail without Y! Mail Plus
I don't have Yahoo! Mail Plus so when I tried to import from Gmail as someone else has it doesn't work for me and I get migration errors.
Only a month's worth of email is imported after I tried to ...
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How to send email from specific address when choosing specific contacts?
I use Gmail at home and at work. When I create work-related emails, I need to change the From field to my work email.
Since I have regular people to whom I send work related emails, I would like an ...
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Is it possible to make Gmail put incoming emails in special folders or labels automatically?
Is it possible to apply filters for incoming emails?
Let's say, if an email is coming from sender1@site.com with infos in subject I want it to go to the infos1 label.
I don't want the filter to be ...
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How can I find the IP address history of my Gmail account?
Is it possible to view a history of the IP addresses that have logged into my Gmail account?
