Tell me the best Gmail tip? Best tip = best answer
Please, no more than 3 tips...I don't want some rehearsed copy-paste stuff I've read elsewhere.
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For example if your email address is "mahalo.answers@gmail.com", then all emails sent to the following addresses would also get sent to you:
m.ahalo.answers@gmail.com
ma.halo.answers@gmail.com
mah.alo.answers@gmail.com
etc.
You can then filter you email based upon the "to" address. If you find that "m.ahalo.answers@gmail.com" starts getting loads of spam, you can stop using that address and use "ma.halo.answers@gmail.com" etc
Personal use
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mahaloanswers+digg@gmail.com
mahaloanswers+pornsite1@gmail.com
so then when spam starts coming in to a specific address you know which site sold your address, but then you can just throw anything away thats sent to that specific category.
You can also obviously use this for specific mailing lists +gnome, +python, etc and then in gmail you can say "apply label based on to address" and categorize your incoming e-mail based on the + category you gave the site.
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If you have a cell phone that is capable of using a Microsoft Exchange/ActiveSync Account, you can set up Gmail to sync mail, contacts and calendar to your phone. http://google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138636
Also, if you have more than one email account, Gmail or otherwise, Gmail can check the email for you and you can use Gmail to send and receive this email. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22370
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I also learned to archive instead of delete. By archiving a message it moves out of the box you are looking at but is still available to you at a later date if you need it for some reason.
The thing I didn't realize for a long time was that the green dot beside a contact's name,. meant they were currently in Gmail and I could send them a chat/IM message at that moment while they were on line. Chat messages sent to someone not on line show up in their in box so they will get them even if you send when they are not there.
personal experience
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Your productivity will be thrown out the window if you do something silly or simple lose complete access to your account. Login to your second account and you will be thankful.
Go to Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> select "Forward a copy of incoming mail to:"
James
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If you want all mail from one address, search for: "from:xyz@xyz.com"
You can even search for all emails from one domain: "from:xyz.com"
Or if you want to get that PDF file you sent to someone at Mahalo: "filename:pdf to:mahalo.com"
As I said, it's really powerful, check out the full list of commands I'll link below.
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Keyboard shortcuts is also very useful, especially if you get a lot of email. Here are some simple ones:
j and k - select next/previous message in listing
gi - go to inbox
u - update
x - mark selected conversation
y - (in inbox) archive marked conversation(s)
o - open selected conversation
s - star message/conversation
r - reply
a - reply all
f - forward
z - undo (for example: undo archiving)
If you want to see more shorcuts, just type ? (question mark) inside Gmail.
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Hope you enjoy these tips!
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My favorite email program is Thunderbird, one that comes from Mozilla, and is a close relation to Firefox. I also have Pegasus (P-mail) and Eudora in my computer. All of these POP (Post Office Protocol) email programs are used to download email. I used to subscribe via Earthlink, and since it was a paid email service, they let me download it into my computer. Others, like Yahoo, will only let you download if you pay them an annual fee. In their remarkable generosity and wisdom, Google will also let you download your email into your computer. This means that if you can't get online you still have all of your email messages in your computer. And if you choose to empty everything out of your online gmail files, they are still on your computer. Here is the Gmail Help url: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725
The three free email programs that I downloaded and installed are Pegasus, Eudora, and Thunderbird. If you visit the Gmail help page, you'll see they offer free downloads via POP and IMAP, and they give some good reasons why the IMAP setting is more flexible (for example: my gmail web account doesn't get rid of email I delete mail from my computer program because I use POP, but if I accessed via the IMAP protocol, mail deleted on the computer would also be deleted from the online account).
I use Thunderbird most of the time, because it is easy to use multiple accounts in the same program and setup for gmail is built in. There is a new Pegasus program as of this summer, and Eudora, once downloaded from Qualcomm, is open source and has been updated a couple of times.
To see how this works, open your online version of gmail and look at the settings. You can enable POP and choose to keep a copy online (good for if you sometimes work away from the computer where you download it, and you want to use the online version as backup). The resident program can send, delete, download, do all of the usual things with messages, but in POP when you delete a post in (for example) Thunderbird for a gmail account, it isn't deleted from the online version of the account. IMAP allows something deleted on the computer to transmit also to the web email program and delete it there as well.
Here are the email programs I mentioned:
Pegasus Mail
http://www.pmail.com/v451.htm
Eudora
http://www.eudora.com/
Thunderbird
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Gmail Help
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725
Good Luck!
Pegasus Mail
http://www.pmail.com/v451.htm
Eudora
http://www.eudora.com/
Thunderbird
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
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M$You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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I love the "Forgotten Attachment Detector" and the "Undo Send" features.
Both help me a LOT !
Cheers!
Leo
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M$*Enable SMS in labs for the ability to easily send text messages to anyone using chat.
*Enable Send & Archive for easy organization in mail.
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You can also add a + after your email along with a an identifier. For instance, if your email is mahalo@gmail.com, you could signup for CNN using mahalo+cnn@gmail.com and you will receive your emails normally from CNN but you will have the ability to identify if CNN provided your address to a party they shouldn't have.
I like using the "." in an email address as its not too obvious to real people that you are creating different email addresses. Adding a combination of "+" and "." though is a very powerful feature.
wow. Thank you very much. You discovered this tip yourself? very cool, tried it now.
I like the '.'s but its limited and I can never remember which places I've put my '.'s. Instead I use the + functionality. For example, mahalo.answers+1@gmail.com, mahalo.answers+a@gmail.com, mahalo.answers+new@gmail.com, mahalo.answers+anything@gmail.com all are valid e-mails and can be viewed with the mahalo.answers account. I find putting descriptive text after the + most helpful.
Though I added an answer to this list, I also found this tip very helpful. I'll be giving it a try to keep track of some of the lists I subscribe to. Good choice!
i use the jason+newslettername@calacanis.com tip
You can also add "+" after your e-mail address, but before "@gmail.com". For example, when I register on websites I always enter "myemail+website_address@gmail.com" in the e-mail fields.