Thursday, 18 July 2013

Gmail has some strong features but  most of the people are unaware of them.

So lets reveal them:

1.Use Filters and Labels

If you receive a lot of messages on daily basis then you must create filters and labels in Gmail.Using filters you can efficiently organise your messages.This is Gmail’s one of best feature but rarely people use it.

Creating Filters

To create Go to settings->filters->create a new filter

Now follow the instructions and select required actions for filters.I am sure you will be fascinated by this feature.

Labels are shown on left hand side of Gmail if you add a new label all the emails labelled with that will appear under it but most of the people do not add labels in there messages so its less useful than Filters.

2.You can find the originating ip address of a email using its headers

Open the email you recieved, go to reply option.

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or you see like this in standard version

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Click on down arrow then

Click on the show original option.

A new window opens which gives the full detail of email

Find there

"client ip".

This is the ip from where email was sent to you.

Note that ip address

Now you can find location of ip from many sites like iplocation.com

Note :You can apply this trick in yahoo mail also to know how click here .

3. xyz@gmail.com = x.y.z@gmail.com

Let my email id is shreya@gmail.com ,if someone sends email to s.h.reya@gmail.com it will reach in my inbox easily.

Because while you create your gmail ids gmail does not allow you to make an id with s.h.r.eya@gmail.com if somebody has already an id shreya@gmail.com .

4.Gmail Offline

Dont have a regular connection to internet?No problem

Install Gmail offline  using it you can read, respond to, compose, search, and archive messages, all of which will be automatically sent or synced the next time you’re online. Only one requirement is that you should have google chrome.

5.Insert Inline images in your messages instead of just attaching them.

Inserting images into your messages gives a good and efficient look.So always try to insert photos into your messages.

In the standard view Its very easy you need to just drag and drop files in the

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New Message box(you will need to enable inserting images for inserting images by URL to enable go to settings->labs->) .You have to place the curser to the position where you want to insert the image.

Method2:Move your mouse over the + icon and click on insert photos.

6.Save attachments directly to Google drive or Skydrive

Using Attachment.me service you can you can upload gmail attachments to     

your Google drive,Skydrive or Dropbox account.

Attachments.me

Just install its plugin in your browser then link it with any of your cloud account.(To download for chrome click here ,its also available for firefox).It may ask you to allow to access your email id and some other informations so just allow it.

7.Use search box to easily find Emails

You can type anything you remember about a mail and search it but if you know something specific like To or From or Subject its very easy to find email.

eg : if I want to search any mail or draft whose subject contains word TechWorld i will type subject:Techworld and hit enter to search.

type “is:unread” to see only unread messages 

8.How receive mails from your yahoo or other accounts into your Gmail Account

To receive emails from your other email accounts(here i will give example for yahoo account)

Go to –>Settings –>Account –>Click Add a POP3 mail account you own.

  • Now a pop up window opens give the yahoo email address
  • this is server name  pop.mail.yahoo.com and port is 995.
  • Now after checking SSL connections box proceed all the steps.

9.Access Gmail via IMAP in Your Email Program(eg. WindowsLiveMail) or Mobile Device

To access gmail in Windows Live Mail or Outlook or on your mobile

First of all you need is to enable POP access to other email clients

Access Gmail via Imap in windows live mail or your mobile

Go to settings –>Forwarding and Pop/Imap->Click on enable POP as shown in screenshot.

Now open your email client and add your email account.

10.Sign Out of Gmail Remotely

Used some relative’s or friend’s laptop and forgot to log out of your gmail account? No problem ,Gmail comes with sign out remotely property

To make Gmail sign you out of all sessions that may be open on other computers and devices:

  • Login from your account.
  • At the bottom find last account activity link below which is details
  • Click on Details
  • Now you will see the option of sign out from all sessions click on it and you are done

 

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