Free email service owned by Google. It supports POP3 and IMAP
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Can gMail notify me when it is unable to retrieve mail from my other accounts?
Is there a way to get gMail to notify me when it is unable to retrieve mail from my other accounts?
I have gMail checking several accounts (under Settings->Accounts & Import), but on occasion it ...
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How do I retrieve a message I accidentally archived in Gmail?
I was trying to mark an email as "Important" in Gmail and accidentally archived it.
Now I cannot locate it, since there is no "archive" label anywhere.
How do I get it back?
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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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Can I set an e-mail to send on a timer within Gmail?
It's a business related e-mail, and I want it to get to the person before I wake up in the morning, but I don't want their first impression of me to be that I was awake at 3am sending e-mails. Is ...
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What's the difference between the 'Move to' and 'Apply label' features in Gmail?
I'm confused about the Move to and Labels feature in Gmail.
What's the difference between the two?
Why does the Move to option not appear sometimes?
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How to set up Gmail to show more than 20 results per page when searching?
I've configured Gmail to show 100 messages per page when I view my inbox, and this was pretty straightforward. But when I search for something, it still shows 20 results per page. Can I set this to ...
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I need to send an email to everyone I've ever sent mail to
So it looks like my gmail account was compromised yesterday and "I" sent a spam message out to not just everyone in my contacts, but everyone I've ever sent e-mail to from that account. I'd like to ...
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Regain access to my broken Gmail account from Temporary Error 500, Numeric Code 93
Since August 1st I've been getting this error when trying to login to my gmail account:
Temporary Error (500)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for ...
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Can I re-create deleted Gmail accounts?
A long time ago, I created a Google mail account. I fell for a trap that was common back then (not sure how it is nowadays) and ended up with two Google accounts—one for Gmail (using the Gmail email ...
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Can I bounce messages (not forward, but a true bounce) in Gmail?
Prima facie this is impossible.
But perhaps someone has some kind of hack to do it. This is one of the last things holding me back from switching to Gmail from Pine.
To be clear, bouncing a message ...
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How can I import mail from one Gmail account to another, preserving my label structure?
I'd like to import mail from one account to another, but I have 10 or so labels in the one I want to export from. What's the easiest way to get the same labels on the same email messages on the new ...
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Is there a way to display the number of messages for any label in the Gmail label list?
The Gmail sidebar displays the list of our labels (or some of them, according to settings). Next to every label name there is a number showing how many unread messages we have for that label.
Is ...
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How to fix smilies in Gmail showing as “J”
Is there a way to fix smilies in received emails that looks like "J" in Gmail?
Other mail clients (such as Outlook) changes ":)" to smile character in Wingdings font that is letter "J". Although, in ...
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Filtering Gmail for emails that include a plus sign
I know you can filter emails in Gmail by utilizing plus signs (e.g., bob+something@gmail.com). But is there a way to filter for the opposite - that is, include emails in gmail only where a plus sign ...
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Does GMail use Flash?
I'm curious, sometimes I'm working on GMail (using Google Chrome), and Flash Player crashes. When this happens my Youtube video tab stop shows the video, and GMail doesn't stop, but it does show the ...
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How do I force images to hide in Gmail?
In Gmail, e-mails from "strangers" automatically have their images blocked. I accidentally selected to always display images from the sender. However, I would like to undo this decision and begin ...
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Remove email address from suggestions in To field on Gmail
Gmail keeps populating the To field with an out of date e-mail address that I no longer contact.
The email address isn't in my address book but I did use it a lot previously (the contact has since ...
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2answers
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How to highlight emails from particular friend in Gmail?
I want to highlight all the emails that came from a particular friend. How can I do that in Gmail?
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3answers
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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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1answer
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How can I remotely log out of Gmail?
Is there any way to remotely sign out of Gmail? I logged onto Gmail on a public computer but I don't remember if I logged out. Is there any way to force that computer to logout without going back to ...
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2answers
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Is there any way to send an email from a Gmail plus address?
I know that I can sign up to a service using user+foo@example.com, the question I have is how can I send an email from this same address?
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How can I encrypt emails sent through Gmail?
What's the best solution for encrypting emails sent from within Gmail. This could be a browser extension, a GreaseMonkey script, or something else.
I realize that whoever is receiving the email will ...
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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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In Gmail, can I base my “send from” address on a filter?
In short:
In Gmail, is there a way to let the "send from" address change automatically depending on which of my accounts it was sent to?
In long:
I recently joined a team (of developers) and they ...
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In Gmail, how do I set the default email address for a contact that has two email addresses?
When I enter the person's name in the To field, the auto-complete comes up, and lists the several email addresses that I have for this person. The first email address that it lists, is not the one ...
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How can I read an IMAP account via Gmail?
Is it possible to read an IMAP email address via my Gmail account?
According to the docs I have found they only seem to support reading of POP3, but I find that a bit weird?
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2answers
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Searching within Gmail's nested labels
Consider this setup in my Gmail inbox where I have 3 lists:
mailing-lists/first-list
mailing-lists/second-list
mailing-lists/third-list
If I want to search for all unread messages in any sub-label ...
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Keyboard shortcut to change Right-to-left status in Gmail
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or a Greasemonkey script that adds this keyboard shortcut), to make a certain paragraph right-to-left, or left-to-right in gmail?
This question in the official gmail ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut for 'Mark as read' in GMail?
In the new Yahoo! mail I can select multiple checkboxes against my email subjects and press k to perform the action Mark as read.
Is there a similar alternative in GMail?
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3answers
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How to password protect an email in Gmail?
I want to send a password protected email using gmail. Yes I Know I could attach a document, and protect that instead, but I would like to protect the email body, if that is possible?
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How do I disable the spam filter in Gmail?
I'd like to disable the spam filter in Gmail, how can I do this?
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In Gmail, how can I find the oldest message from a person?
I want to find the first message that a specific person sent me, but I don't know when that was - except that it was ages ago. I know I can use the search operator from:janedoe but the result is ...
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How to auto-forward email from Hotmail? [closed]
Some time ago -back in about 2006 (I was a late adopter)- I switched my primary email account from Hotmail to Gmail. I don't want to delete the account, if only for the remaining web-services and ...
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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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Gmail rejects SMTP password with 2-factor authentication
I am using the Mail app on Mac OS X to access my Gmail account using 2-factor authentication. The app is configured with an application-specific password and it works fine for a few days: email can be ...
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Is there a way to remove “buzz” from gmail? [closed]
Buzz show up in the left hand side of my gmail account. How to I get rid of it?
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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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How can I use the normal (desktop) Gmail on an iPad?
When I use Gmail on the iPad via Safari, I get a -to me- unusable version of Gmail like the image below:
Is there a way I can get the normal desktop view on my iPad?
(Note: the bottom row as shown ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to make phone calls from Gmail when the new hangouts is enabled?
Gmail currently provides free domestic calling for users in the US and Canada, directly in the Gmail interface. It uses the Google Video Chat plugin to allow voice calls to be made to regular phone ...
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Get e-mail addresses from Gmail messages received
How can I export a list containing e-mail addresses for everyone that has sent me an e-mail? I have all of the messages archived.
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3answers
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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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Creating Google Calendar event from received Gmail message
Is it possible to create a calendar appointment from an email message? I'm sure in the past it would give you a link in the right column if it detected a date in the message, but this no longer seems ...
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In Gmail, is the “always display images from” option safe?
I know that it is possible for a spammer to generate an email that claims to be from a certain sender, regardless of whether it actually is. They could use that to send me mail purporting to be from ...
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Prevent Gmail from expanding email address using name from Contacts
I want to prevent Gmail from replacing To: i@corp.com with:
To: The fat guy who was near takeshi at the meeting <i@corp.com>
I just typed i@corp.com in the compose window, but Gmail expands ...
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How do I organize my labels in Gmail?
I have more than 100 labels in my Gmail account. They are currently displayed as a long list on the left side of the screen, and it's becoming quite difficult to use. Is there a way I can group ...
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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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Is there a way customize priority inbox like this?
I would like to customize the priority inbox of my Google Apps email. The top section is already "Important and unread" and the bottom section "Everything else".
In the middle I would like to have ...
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How does Gmail decide to thread email messages?
Sometimes I'll notice false positives (includes an email that isn't part of the thread) and false negatives (misses an email that should have been part of the thread). How does Gmail decide which ...
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How to specify “OR” conditions for gmail filter
How can I filter messages in GMail using boolean OR conditions. For example, I can specify addresses in the To: or From: fields, but this only matches emails that meet both criteria. How can I match ...
