Archive for November 11th, 2008

Gmail Tips and Tricks – Login issues or your account is locked

Sometimes you will find your Gmail (Google mail) account locked and you will not be able to access it. This happens due to many issues.

Google or Gmail is a machine basically, it uses some algorithm to find out if you are a spammer. Spammers usually access Gmail using many software and they send emails to unknown address. So Google set a system where these things are blocked automatically.

1. If you are sending Bulk emails to your friends.

• You may want to announce some message to your friends or to all your contacts
• When you send an email more than 100 recipients, Gmail blocks your account
• When you send emails to a lot of undeliverable addresses, Gmail blocks your account

2. If you are logged into several computers or several browsers with the same ID

• You may have forgotten to sign out from other browsers or other computers

3. Using some software to automatically access your Gmail account

4. Bulk downloading of emails using POP or IMAP client

Above all, I would say Gmail blocks or locks the account if you send too many emails within couple of hours. Your account will be locked maximum for 24 hours.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please post a comment.

Dave

What is CC and BCC?

You will hear this when you send an email or you will see people talking about this.

CC means Carbon Copy

BCC means Blind Carbon Copy

If you want to send an email to your staff and also if you want to notify your supervisor about the same email, in the TO field of the message, type the supervisor�s email address and in CC field enter the other staff email addresses.

So basically To means to whom the email is intended for CC means you want the other person also to be notified that you have send a mail TO some one.

Now use BCC when you do not want the TO and CC persons to know that you are copying this email to someone else at BCC.

So going back to the same example, Send the email TO your staff and CC your supervisor and BCC your boss. Now your staff and supervisor will not know that you have send the same email to your Boss. Which is why this is called Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)

Post a comment if it is confusing.

Dave