Free email service owned by Google. It supports POP3 and IMAP
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What “address book” web app would you recommend?
I am currently using gmail contacts.
Is there anything better to try in the market ? (and if you can describe their pros and cons in a few words that would be cool)
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If my Gmail address is abcdefgh@gmail.com, then what would be my OpenID?
If my email is abcdefgh@gmail.com, what would be my OpenID?
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How can I use inline images in GMail?
I'd like to insert an image in the contents of the email I'm sending. How can I do that with GMail?
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How do I get the sidebar in Gmail to expand like old times?
I recently switched to the redesigned version of Gmail (aka Gmail's new look) and I'm loving it.
However, one of the changes I noticed is that the bar on the left side (which has a list of all my ...
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Remove Important Label from Gmail
The Important label shows up on the left sidebar, and I want to get rid of it. I can hide it under the "X more" dropdown, but that doesn't get rid of it but only hides it. Also I don't want to mess ...
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Sending a new mail with another email as an attachment in Gmail
How do I attach an email from a previous conversation or mail to a new message in Gmail?
Forwarding isn't feasible as I need to attach more than one email in a new message to my client.
Is there any ...
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Can I see only mail I have archived in Gmail?
In Gmail the inbox view only contains mail which has not been archived. I'm looking for a particular conversation I had with someone a while ago to find a quote, but I can't remember the exact topic ...
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Using a custom star type with a Gmail filter
I have set up a Gmail filter that marks all incoming mail from a certain mailing list with a star. Right now, the filter automatically applies the standard yellow star. How can I set it to use the ...
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Guidelines on email formatting to make contents Google Calendar friendly
Does Google provide any documented, official recommendations about how to format an email that will easily import the event into a user's Google Calendar?
Let's say that I want to send an email about ...
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How can I get around giving my mobile phone number to Google?
When I want to register an account with Gmail now, it says
"Google will send a text message containing a verification code to your mobile phone."
I don't want to give Google my mobile phone number!!
...
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Search in Gmail - How to search the mails without reply?
I'd like to do a search in my Gmail to find out the mails that I sent without reply.
I tried this, but it doesn't work:
label:sent -has:reply
it seems that the 'has' operator only accept ...
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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 ...
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Is there a way to forward my Yahoo mail to my Gmail account without paying?
I looked around a little bit on Yahoo and it looks like if I upgrade, I can forward my email. But I'm a cheapskate and I hate checking different accounts. Is there anything I can do?
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Find largest email messages in Gmail [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I sort emails in GMail by size?
I am trying to reduce my Gmail footprint and thus need to locate the largest emails.
I am aware of FindBigMail, but they charge ...
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Is it possible to access multiple Gmail accounts concurrently?
Related:
How to Manage Multiple GMail Accounts on the Same PC/Browser?
I used to be able to access my primary Gmail account, as well as two Google Apps accounts concurrently in the same browser ...
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How to access Google Apps mail from within personal Gmail account
I have a personal Gmail account which I use for personal mails and a Google Apps mail account by my employer which I use for my professional mails. It want to access my Google Apps mails from my ...
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Stop Gmail from automatically creating contacts
Gmail really likes to make contacts for me and stick them in my "All Contacts" list. I'd much rather manage my contacts myself and only add people when I want to specifically do so. (Actually, I ...
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How does 'muting' work for gmail?
My understanding was that when you "muted" a conversation in gmail, future emails came in but they didn't bring that conversation back into the inbox. I clearly don't understand how this feature ...
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Centralized Instant Messaging Logging
Is there a centralized place/software where I can store all my chat logs? I switch computers a lot, and want one place to sign into to do all my chatting. I currently love Gmail because it can log ...
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How do I import email from another email account into my Gmail account?
I have another email account with another email provider which is not GMail, but I want to import that email into Gmail. Is it possible to do this?
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How to change a contact's autocomplete email order in Gmail?
I have always been under the impression that the order of email addresses for a contact is the order in which their autocomplete suggestions will pop up. So if I have a contact with multiple email ...
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Is Google's Gmail service for my own domain free? I thought it was $50 per domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Free Google Apps could not be found
Is Google's Gmail service for my own domain free? I thought it was $50 per domain.
I want to use it for my custom domain's email ...
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How do I delete my Gmail account?
I've got an old GMail account I hardly use and want to delete it. What do I need to do?
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Re-activate the new Gmail compose
After my first toying around with the new Gmail compose I clicked on the button that said 'I want to keep using the old compose' or something similar with the same meaning.
Now I want to try it ...
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Manage un-replied GMail conversations
I'm looking for some kind of GMail plugin or application that will solve the following problem for me:
On average, I send about 3 emails a day to people I may have never emailed before, or have but ...
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Getting rid of the three top links (Mail, Contacts, Tasks) in Gmail
The Gmail user interface contains the following three top links above the "Compose Mail" button:
Mail
Contacts
Tasks
I'm always on the Mail tab. I'm not using Tasks and I never go to the ...
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When is it okay to use “label:”, “in:”, or “is:” in a Gmail Filter?
When you try to use any of the queries label:, in:, or is: in a Gmail filter, you will see the following warning:
Warning: Filter searches containing
"label:", "in:", or "is:" criteria are
not ...
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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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Any plugin to control GMail message editor with keyboard?
I want to use GMail's various rich-text capabilities with the keyboard. For example, I want to type Ctrl + M to indent, Ctrl + Shift + M to dedent, and do all the other actions (like adding a link or ...
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Gmail and IMAP - how do the [imap]/Drafts, [imap]/Sent and [imap]/Trash folders work?
When you enable IMAP access in Gmail the [imap]/Drafts, [imap]/Sent and [imap]/Trash labels are created. How do these labels function given that each IMAP client can potentially implement their local ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Set up Gmail to place the quotes text on top of my reply for bottom-posting
Is there a way to configure Gmail or add a labs extension to enable bottom-posting of replies?
By default it quotes the message you are replying and places the cursor at the top. I want it to place ...
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Gmail: Filtering subjects with NOT(-)
I want to filter every message that is sent to a mailing list, except those that begin(or just contain) "Re:"
In "Has the words" I've put.
subject:(mailing-list) subject:(-re)
However that will ...
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Automatically create an out-of-office reply based on calendar events in Google Apps
I would like to change the content of the out-of-office (Vacation responder) message in my Google Apps account based on events in my Google calendar. (I am the admin of the Google Apps domain)
For ...
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Can I export my Facebook friend's contact info to gMail?
Is it possible to export my Facebook friend's contact info to gMail?
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Decoding base64/quoted-printable attachment from gmail
Sometimes, mostly Outlook users, sends me an email message with another email message embedded in it. It is done in Outlook by dragging an existing email message into the window where you're composing ...
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Gmail keyboard shortcut to “select all conversations that match this search”?
You can use *a, but this only selects conversations on the current page. I'd like to select all conversations without using the mouse, IE to delete hundreds of emails from a specific sender.
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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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What to do when a service asks for your gmail password?
On many services, there is the request to connect to your gmail (or other webmail service) account in order to retrieve your contacts information (so to add them to your network in the new service).
...
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Is it possible to limit GMail search results to unread messages?
Is it possible to limit GMail search results to unread messages? This isn't about selecting unread questions from existing search results, which is covered in this question. I'm looking for a search ...
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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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2answers
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Remove Gmail “send mail as” for former employee
A place I do some work for has lost an employee recently. I've removed his email account from our server after having a courtesy auto-responder for a while, but I've realised he has a Gmail account ...
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Several Gmail accounts sharing one email address
In our company, using Google Apps, we need that everyone can check one special email address. What I did was to create a group for that special address and added everyone to that group so that all of ...
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Do email services send sender's IP address?
If I'm going to receive/send email through Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, would I be able to see the IP of the sender? I know there's nothing to do with the IP but would it give away the location from where I'm ...
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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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Gmail is taking forever to load in Chrome: Why is this happening?
I'm using Google Chrome 12.0.742.100 on OS X 10.6.7. It seems that Gmail takes an inordinate amount of time to load (2-3 minutes) as indicated by the 'loading' circle on the tab. Some images may help ...
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Split-screen display of multiple Gmail inboxes in one account
I just merged my Gmail accounts and am now receiving all the emails in the same inbox while only having to use one account. That's very practical to me right there.
Is it possible to split or show ...
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Gmail filters/labels: Force email to stay in Inbox?
I receive email to these addresses:
my-team@example.com : This is my team's primary method of communication. I want all of this email to go to my Inbox.
other-team@example.com : This belongs to ...
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Search for “!” in Gmail subject
Does anyone know if in Gmail you can search all messages that have an exclamation mark in the subject?
I would like to create a filter that adds a red ! label to the messages that have an exclamation ...
