Questions tagged [gmail]
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Are people notified when added to Gmail contacts list?
If you add a new Gmail address to your Gmail contact list, is that person notified that they were added to your Gmail contacts list? Both people have Gmail.
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What happened to my delegated Gmail account?
We're using Gmail for our domain and I have access to both my own account and a delegated one. Normally, I can choose to view the delegated account and it opens in a new tab.
Today when I tried that, ...
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Gmail inbox extraction
I am canceling my current email account, but I would like to keep the bulk of the messages that are in my inbox.
How can I extract the inbox messages to my new account or at least to document/text ...
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Gmail getting full, does creating folders help clear inbox?
Gmail is getting full, does creating folders help that?
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How to remove all “alien contacts” appeared after importing contacts from an exported CSV file?
After I exported my Gmail Contacts to a .csv file and reimported them back, I got the “alien” contacts as in the below screenshot—they have no name and something related to Google+.
How can I remove ...
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How do I send an email to a list of people without them seeing the other email addresses?
I have a group of friends and family that I would like to send an email to, but I don't want everyone to see everyone's email address at the top. How do I do this?
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Recover an accidentally deleted note of a Gmail contact
I've just deleted the note field of one of my Gmail contacts which contains very critical information.
Is it possible to recover it?
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Returning to an earlier version of Gmail [duplicate]
Does anyone know how to revert to earlier forms of Gmail?
Failing that, how do I make the reply or forward take up the full screen and not be a window on top of a window as in the latest version?
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Does the Gmail tabbed inbox in any way affect what I see in a third-party email client?
I access my (multiple) Gmail accounts almost entirely through the Mailbox app (on my iOS devices) and through Sparrow (on my Mac).
As such, I didn't get the "welcome to the tabbed inbox" message in ...
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How do I change the photo that appears when hovering over my name?
Other people see a different photo than I do when hovering over my name. How can I change this?
I already changed the photo in the settings, and tried the contact list changes. What can I do to ...
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How do I make sure I'm not appearing on other people's email as "Do you know <me>?"
From time to time Google decides to tell me that I might know some people by their G+ profile from whom I only ever contact via email. (I don't, and don't want to, know or have to do anything with ...
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How to see who is online with the new "Hangouts" in Gmail?
I just upgraded to from regular Google chat to the new Hangouts feature using this article, but one thing I can't figure out is how to see if people are online. In the regular Google chat there was a ...
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How to leave empty last name or both in Google Mail?
For some services it is useful to have one name in the email header. When you create an email account, Google by default does not allow to leave the name field empty.
How to leave empty last name or ...
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Gmail doesn't include Hotmail recipients in reply-all
I just noticed that, on a thread that includes about 4 Gmail addresses, one Hotmail, and one Google Group, reply-all doesn't include the Hotmail address. Is this a known issue?
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What items count against my space used in Gmail?
It's unclear to me what exactly fills my "57% of 15 GB used". I imagine attachments count, but is that both on attachments sent and attachments received? If I delete the last remnant of that ...
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How do I opt-out of the new Reply in Gmail?
Today, when trying to reply to a message in Gmail, I was told that there is a new reply mode and then it was automatically enabled. I find it difficult to use, and it doesn't let you reply to the ...
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How do I reset all my filters / labels / categories on Gmail?
I have a considerable number of Social and Promotions emails that keep going into the Spam folder, and many others are wrongly assigned to Updates and Promotions while they should be in Primary.
How ...
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Is there any way to get back the old style Gmail reply and compose boxes? [duplicate]
Is there any way besides using a 3rd party email application to revert Gmail to the old-style compose and reply email boxes - the style that allows you to use your full screen?
It drives me ...
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How to export a list of all emails addresses that I have sent mail to in Gmail [duplicate]
I am trying to get a list of all emails that I have sent an email to using my Gmail account. I am using Google Apps if that makes any difference.
Update: I have found this website, but it only looks ...
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What does Gmail actually loads when it's "loading Gmail"
And why does it load every time? (Why) Can't it be cached on my browser?
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How do I move a search-filtered set of emails into another folder?
I'm trying to clean up my Gmail inbox which has become swamped. My first step is to unclutter it by breaking it up into folders of related mail. That will let me deal with incoming mail appropriately ...
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Does Gmail auto delete junk/spam?
We've got several accounts running on Gmail / Google Apps for Business—these accounts have been alive for about 10–12 years (running on a different email provider). Because they've been around for so ...
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Google Mail Aliases or multiple Accounts?
I have a mail address [email protected] and would like to have a second address [email protected] (Alias address) in my Google Mail Account.
I would like to add the second address as ...
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How to login to YouTube and Gmail separately? [duplicate]
I have an account [email protected] which I used to make a YouTube account years ago (before Google bought YouTube). It got banned for some stupid reason so I made another YouTube account with ...
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Workaround for a Gmail composer arrow key/cursor bug
I trigger a minor cursor bug in Gmail's composer all the time, and it's driving me nuts. Here's the bug:
Reply to an email and type something.
With the cursor at the end of the line, press the down ...
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I want to get the email address of everyone I've had a conversation with over the last year [duplicate]
I want to send a newsletter using MailChimp to everyone I've had an email conversation with over the past year.
What is the best way to export their email addresses?
I only want people I've gone ...
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How to disable Gmail's new editor? [duplicate]
Apparently Google wants to break Gmail again: They switched off the old editor today for everyone and made their new editor (see this help page) mandatory which does top-posting and allows no fixed ...
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Download email messages through Google Takeout
I was having a look at the Google Takeout service, and one thing I noticed is that although my Google account uses Gmail (with my own domain via Google Apps for Business) when I go to takeouts Gmail ...
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How to configure IMAP for Gmail
I have IMAP on and I had it working before. Now I reinstalled my OS and I want to enable Outlook in Windows 7 with Gmail but it's not authenticating.
I have 2-way authentication turned on. Should ...
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Re-establishing Gmail’s Old Interface?
A few weeks ago, my Gmail layout changed from a "uniform" layout where all emails were shown according to the newest (by date and time), to one where emails are now grouped under three tabs under the ...
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Monthly automatic email to one person
I have Gmail. I need the same email content sent to the same person, at the first of each month. Is there a way to set that up to happen monthly without having to think about it or do any action?
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How to delete all emails at once [duplicate]
I want to delete all mail from my gmail account. How can I do this all at once? I have over 3000 emails to delete. Any suggestions?
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Certificate error for Gmail
Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to access Gmail in Chrome by navigating to https://gmail.com. As seen in the error below, it says the server identifies itself as mail.google.com not ...
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Block email delegation deletion in Google Apps for Business
I'm thinking of using Google Apps for Business for my website. I'm the president of a fanclub and I need the secretary to access the fanclub email account, to send and forward emails from that account,...
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Gmail "Send Mail As" from a Google Apps account, using an alias
I have two Google mail accounts: my main account ([email protected]) and a Google Apps account ([email protected]). I would like to use my primary gmail.com address to sign in and receive all mail, ...
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New "View Order" button in Google Mail
Just checked my email after making an order at Amazon.com and saw a small "View Order" button in the subject line. I tried to look up whether this is a new feature or not but couldn't find anything.
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Need to delete past employees gmail account with our domain name
I hired an employee to do marketing for me. I gave her an email address related to the business to look more professional. ie [email protected] She has now moved on but I worry she still uses ...
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Getting rid of unwanted "suggested" contacts in Gmail
I have removed an old address from contacts in Gmail but it still keeps popping up the "suggestions" when I type in the To line—is there a magic way to get rid of it permanently?
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Custom filter Gmail emails on receiving, mark as important if phrase is found, archive if not [duplicate]
We subscribe to a request for information press service, were they send us 15 / 20 emails a day (each with 20 or so queries in them) which are all request from reporters / journalists, asking for an ...
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Will Google charge me if I add another domain on my grandfathered Google Apps account?
My Google Apps Free Edition account was grandfathered in before Google discontinued the creation of new accounts of this type. Businesses that want Google-based email to be associated with their ...
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Prevent Gmail Address List Sender pop up
Is there a method (way) to turn off the Pop Up Box as I move the cursor over email sender's id as I browse emails? I suffer headaches from flashing objects (like blinking red lights) in one or two ...
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Creating a new Gmail account
Ages ago I created a Gmail account to use, but I then deleted it.
Does anyone know if the "current email address" I typed in when setting up the account can be used again to create a completely new ...
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What does "View and manage your mail" in Google permissions mean?
View mail is something I would like to give to this app -- but what the heck is manage?
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Make some forums appear in Gmail primary tab
How do I make postings, from some of the forums I am subscribed to, appear in the Primary tab?
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Need to change my domain name
I recently set up a Gmail account for my new business. I purchased @mybusinessnameone.com but now I would like to change it to @mybusinessnametwo.com or keep both if they can feed together.
Can ...
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