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How does Google's new two-factor authentication work with IMAP, POP, etc.?

I'm very excited about Google's new two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication means, in this case, that instead of just authenticating based on "something you know" (your password) you also ...
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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 setup Google Apps Email for a subdomain?

I have Google Apps setup for "domain.com". I'd like to receive mail at "user@mail.domain.com" how can I do this?
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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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Does Gmail send quota warnings via email

I manage a domain on Google Apps for a lot of heavy email users who mostly use Outlook and rarely login to the Gmail application. I know there is a quota monitor at the bottom of the page when you ...
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How can I delete a paid Google Apps Business account without stopping my Postini service if I use Postini for the same domain?

I use Postini spam protection for my example.com domain. My example.com production email is not hosted by Google. I also have a paid Google Apps for Business account for the same example.com domain. ...
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Can a few employees share the same inbox in Gmail?

I am administrator for a shop. We have a few employees but we use one email address for customers, shop@example.com It would be nice to organize this in some way so that the employees can have their ...
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Is it possible to change the theme for a Google Apps e-mail account?

I like the way I can choose a theme in regular gmail, but I don't seem to find the option for my GoogleApps account. Is is possible to change it?
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Setting up a Google Group with collaborative inbox

We're using Google Apps to handle our email (me@example.com), and according to Google you could set up a collaborative inbox for your business email through Google Groups (link). But when I sign in ...
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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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can I schedule to send mail later on with duration on gmail? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can I set an e-mail to send on a timer within gmail? I'd like to schedule an email at a later time and date with Gmail. Is this possible? They have many goodies in their ...
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Distribution Lists in Google Apps?

I have a (standard edition) Google Apps domain, and I'm looking for the best way to add a few standard email addresses (admin@, webmaster@, etc.) without using the catch-all approach (I want to catch ...
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Google Apps for business email forwarding

We have somewhere in the region of 900 users, but of these, only 200 or so are important to us. We are thinking of migrating over to Google Apps for business and need to know if we could simply set ...
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Is there any way to get your Google Apps and standard Gmail accounts into a single inbox?

I have a old gmail account, of me_loads_of_numbers@gmail.com, which I have a significant amount of mail going into. I also have a new Google Apps account, me@mydomain.com , which is obviously ...
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Creating Aliases in Google Apps Email for Non-Users

I would like to create an email alias for a domain associated with my Google Apps domain that points to a domain that's not associated with Google Apps. domain1.com is associated with GA, domain2.com ...
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Can I rename email's address in Google Apps for your domain?

I have a .pl domain with Google Apps for your domain - mostly for email management. Now one of the users in this domain want to change her email address to a new one (surname change). What is the ...
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Is there a way to change an attachment name after uploading to GMail

Often I would like to change the name of a file that I am attaching to an email. Off course I could change the filename locally, but that would mess up my own "scheme of things". Is there a way to ...
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How can I set up my site to use Google Apps for Domains via cPanel

Not an issue I have now, luckily, as I've switched hosts, but this annoyed me for a while. I had a site hosted with a host who did not give me a DNS control panel, just cPanel. Is there a way using ...
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How can I copy contacts from Google Apps for Business Directory to another Google Mail account?

I don't really understand how Google Apps for domains directories work. When I start an email it knows about all the people at my domain, but when I go to Contacts, I can't find a directory of just ...
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Keyboard shortcuts for Offline Google Mail (Gmail)?

With the Offline Google Mail app in the Chrome Web Store, is it possible to enable keyboard shortcuts similar to those available in the web version of Gmail? For example, I can use the mouse to move ...
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Programatically change subject line and forward mail - Google Apps

Gmail groups email with the same subject line into a conversation view (threaded). I've never had an issue with this functionality until I began using an online fax service (myfax). I can't label / ...
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Can I combine multiple domains under one Google Apps account?

I have one domain for which I use Google Apps (Standard Edition) to provide email. I've recently started another website at another domain, and I want to also use Google Apps (again, Standard Edition) ...
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Having all mail for my domain controlled by a gmail account

I have exampledomain.com (which I control) and a examplegmail@gmail.com email address. I would like to merge my email, so I just have one account - all inbound mail to exampledomain.com would go to ...
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Can I use Gmail on Google Apps as OpenID provider?

We use Gmail on Google Apps for email for our small company using our on domain-name. Now I would like to use the email-addresses with OpenID. Is there any way I can use Gmail on Google Apps as ...
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Auto reply for cancelled account in Google Apps?

An employee of us left, and I want to cancel his Google Apps account (paid version). Is there a way, where after I cancel his account, I can add an auto reply for his alias in any way?
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Add Google Apps Email to My Google Account Email Addresses

I have an account ABC@gmail.com and just migrated my domain XYZ.com to Google Apps. I setup Gmail for my domain so now I have two different inboxes: (1) ABC@gmail.com, (2) me@XYZ.com . Now I want to ...
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How to add emails (but not users) to Google Apps shared Directory, preferrably by import

I have a Google Apps (free) account. I wish to add email and other contact information to the (shared) directory. How do I do this one at a time? Right now the directory just has the users' emails. ...
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Can't download attachments from Gmail

I have setup Google app for my domain email addresses (email@mydomain.com). Everything is working fine but one thing. I am not being able to download attachments from my mails. When clicking the ...
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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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Allow Regular Users to Own/Manage Groups in Google Apps Mail

We have numerous groups setup with our Google Apps domain - most of them are administered by the SysAdmin (who has full priveleges) but we want some of them to be administered by other users (who only ...
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Paid Google Mail Service - App Sync Update Causes Weird Behavior

We use Gmail as a paid service for our company email. We converted to this over a year ago and things have been running smoothly. Most of us use Google Apps Sync and this works well. However, ...
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How to give admin access to all user's mail

I have setup a mail account using Google Apps. Everything is working fine except I want to give the admin account access to all incoming an outgoing mail. How can I do this?
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Organisation-wide Email Addresses in Google Apps

I'm just setting up Google Apps for my non-profit domain. I'd like to be able to have addresses such as info@mydomain.com and admin@mydomain.com forwarded to certain apps users. I can do this using ...
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Forwarding emails from a gmail alias

I have created an alias (nickname) for my gmail (example@mydomain.com) which I would like to use on my web site. I am trying to figure out how to forward emails coming to this alias ...
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Google Apps error: Currently this single sign-in feature is disabled for the domain example.com

When I try to allow a third-party tool access to my Google Apps mail, I get the error: Currently this single sign-in feature is disabled for the domain example.com How do I solve this?
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How can I prevent my Google Apps email from including “via” information?

In our business, we use Google Apps for all of our email, as we do not host our own mail server. As a result, most of our employees have their GoogleApps emails forward to their regular Gmail ...
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Gmail does not recognize an email address for no apparent reason

When I attempt to address my email message by selecting a group and hit SEND I get the error message: The address "seeminglygoodemail@example.com" in the "Bcc" field was not recognized. Please ...
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Viewing multiple Google Apps emails at once

I'm using Google Apps for my domain and have multiple accounts which I use for different purposes (support, contact, personal, etc). I'm looking for an easy way to manage them without having to switch ...
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How do I buy extra email quota for Google Apps for Domain accounts?

I manage a Google Apps domain with about ten users on it. Only one of the users is a really heavy email user and is about to fill up her email quota. I would like to find a way to add extra quota to ...
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How can I send mail from an alias in Google Apps?

I'm using Google Apps Standard. I created an alias (alias@example.com) for my account (user@example.com). When people email me at alias@example.com, it correctly arrives at my user@example.com email ...
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How do I achieve a “shared inbox” in Google Apps?

I have searched here and on Google for the best solution to achieve a similar function to a shared inbox here at my office setup. I also spent one hour with the Google Apps Support team in the states ...
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Custom domain for Google Apps mail doesn’t work

I use the free edition of Google Apps to handle mail for one of my domains, say foo.com. I have set up a custom subdomain called mail.foo.com for the domain users to read their mail at. (That’s a ...
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Email delegation google apps for business

With email delegation in google apps for business, is it possible to use an external email client like outlook, mac mail ect. to access the emails ? ie. an assistant using mac mail would be able to ...
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How to Migrate Google apps Email?

I want to migrate my Google Apps account to another Gmail account. Is this possible to migrate it?
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Can't receive emails from my domain hosted mail

I have signed up with Google apps and want to use my existing emails under my domain but I couldn't receive them. How can I direct my mails from my domain to my Google apps email?
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Using Google Apps for domains with an email address that has an existing Google account

I have just migrated a domain name, lets call it domain-x.co.uk to Google Apps. A user at this domain had a pre-existing Google login, primarily for Google docs, i.e. user1@domain-x.co.uk. I've just ...
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How to set up POP3 from Google Apps to Google Apps?

I have Google Apps standard edition with two accounts - account A and account B. I want to redirect all emails from one account (account A) to the other one (account B). Works nicely but... when ...
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How do you specify 'Importance' for a message when sending to an Exchange/Outlook user from Gmail?

As per the image, Outlook users can specify the importance of an email message when sending to other Outlook users. This might specifically be for Exchange/Outlook users, I am unsure. Using Gmail ...
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Guarantee email never goes to junk—Gmail / Google Apps for Business

We use Google Apps for Business to run our emails (Gmail) and we have quite a few emails that we get from the same people / the same address (@company.com) / or same subject, that always seem to go ...
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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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