Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Settings Overview

Gmail offers user friendly settings options for any user to easily change many settings of their Gmail.

Below picture explains and describes a little bit about the settings option

When you click the settings button on top of the page you will see the below page with �General� options

Under the General Tab you have the options for the following

• Gmail Language settings
• Gmail Page Size Or number of Messages
• Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts On or Off
• Gmail Avatar or your picture
• Your contacts picture in Gmail or Gtalk
• Gmail Signature
• Gmail Personal Level Indicators
• Gmail Auto responder (Vacation Responder)
• Gmail outgoing message encoding
• Browser connection for Gmail (Secure or not)

Next to General Tab we have Accounts Tab as seen below

Under accounts tab you have the following option

• Sending mails from different address (Gmail From address)
• You can add another email address fro sending messages
• You can buy additional Gmail storage
• Fetch mail � Gmail offers a feature of getting messages from up to 5 POP account into your Gmail account
• Google account settings � Change password or security Question or alternate email ID
• Google apps with other Google Domain

Next to accounts Tab we have Labels Tab as seen below

This tab helps you to edit the labels

• You can add Gmail Labels
• Rename Gmail Labels
• Delete or remove Gmail Labels
• Create a new Gmail Labels

Next to Labels we have Filters as seen below

Using this Filter Tab you can do the following

• Edit Gmail Filters
• Delete Gmail filters
• Create Gmail filters

Next to Filters we have Forwarding and POP/IMAP as seen below

Using Forwarding and POP/IMAP option, you can do the following

• You can forward all the emails coming to your Gmail ID
• You can either keep the forwarded emails or delete them from Gmail
• You can Forward only specific emails using Filters
• Enable Gmail POP access
• Disable Gmail POP Access
• Options to delete the POP accessed emails from Gmail
• Gmail POP access configuration instructions or help
• Enable or Disable Gmail IMAP access
• Gmail IMAP configuration instructions

Next to Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab we have Chat Tabs as seen below

Using Chat options you can do the below

• Options to save or not save Gtalk chat history in Gmail
• Choose where you want the chat box to appear in Gmail
• Automatically add the contacts you send emails to, from Gmail
• Enable or Disable Chat sounds inside Gmail
• Enable or Doable animating emotions inside Gmail
• Option to sign-in with AIM

Next to Chat tab we have Web Clips as seen below

Using this Tab you can choose what content you want to display in web clips that appear on top of your inbox messages view

You can select from which site you want the clips from

Next to Web Clips we have Labs as seen below and this is a new feature added in 2008

Under Labs tab you will get options to set the below

• Labs feature are under test mode
• It may work or it may not work
• Once Gmail finds some features are used by many users and they find it useful, Gmail will make it as a permanent feature
• There are some wonderful options available in Labs Tab

So this is just the overview of Gmail settings options. I will be posting more about each options in this website.So don�t forget to book mark or browse through.

If you have any questions or suggestion, please post a comment

Dave 🙂