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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Make Gmail your default email handler

DSP — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:29:26 +0000

What is default email client or email handler?

When you click on any email address, normally Outlook express opens or Outlook opens, you can simply type the content and send it.

Instead of using outlook express or Outlook or Thunderbird you can have Gmail handle all the emails for you.

To do this you need to install Gmail notifier which can be downloaded here

You can read my previous post which talks about Gmail Notifier and its functions

Right click on the trey icon and click options

You will get a menu as seen below

Click the check box (Use Gmail for internet Mailto: links) to select Gmail as a default email handler for all your email links.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Settings Overview

DSP — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:07:43 +0000

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.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Changing your alternate email address

DSP — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:54:47 +0000

Gmail communicates with you officially for many reasons.

Gmail uses your alternate ID for the following reasons

Confirming your Gmail user name after you create one
If you are not able to login to your Gmail account
If you have forgotten your password and want to retrieve it
If your Gmail storage space is full
And other Gmail issues related to your account

So it is advisable to have an alternate ID to get these notification

You can change the alternate ID by doing the following

Go to settings
Under settings page you will the below menu, click accounts

You will see list of options
Click on �Google account Settings� as shown below

This will open a new screen or window with more options as seen below

This appears at the left side of the screen
Click �Change Security Question� (You are not going to change the security question)
You will see the options for changing the security question and also to enter your alternate email ID

Enter your new alternate ID and click Save to save the changes

Yes, now you will see that you have changed your alternate ID and you will get notification in case of any issue with your Gmail account.

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