Tell me the best Gmail tip? Best tip = best answer?

If you want to keep track of who uses your email address when you sign up for newsletters etc. , you can put the ". " anywhere in your email address to make up "new" email addresses. All emails will however go into your usual account.

For example if your email address is "mahalo. [email protected]", 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.

[email protected] 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. [email protected]" etc.

You can add + to your e-mail address... I use this a lot when signing up for specific things: 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.

I have 2 tips for you. 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. google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?... 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.

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The things that help me most in Gmail is to use filters and labels. By filtering the mail I can have mail from news groups or certain users go to a specific folder not in the inbox. This helps to sort those items from others and can help me quickly see when there is new mail from an important source.It also helps to sort out things I don't read immediately, like my group mails which I enjoy but they are not time sensitive.

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.

It maybe obvious to some but a simple gmail tip is to setup a second gmail account and backup all your email to this account. 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.

You can create new e-mail addresses for the purpose of filtering very easily by adding +something to the end of an address. For example, I can create an Amazon. Com account with the address [email protected], and then within gmail I can create a filter to add the shopping label to everything sent to that special address.

The search in Gmail is really powerful (no surprise since it's a Google product). 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. €“–– 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 you - 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. €“–– Hope you enjoy these tips!

As another answer suggests, a good backup of your email is important. But it isn't necessary to set up another gmail account for that (I have several discrete gmail accounts, for personal, business, and discussion list applications, but not for redundancy. ) I simply load it all into my computer into resident email clients dedicated to my various email accounts.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!

I have found that a few of the keyboard shortcuts really help out: "e" for archive, "r" for reply, and "#" for delete. There are plenty others, but those three are the ones I use the most.

It takes some getting use to and dedication but for productivity try adding the GTDInbox. If you stick to using the add-on it will help better organize your emails epically emails that require action.

I run GMail as its own app thanks to Fluid for OS X or Prisim from Mozilla. It's got a dock badge indicating unread e-mails too just like a real e-mail client.

From Gmail Labs: I love the "Forgotten Attachment Detector" and the "Undo Send" features. Both help me a LOT! Cheers!Leo.

Gmail Chat has a feature that allows you to video/audio chat with others by downloaded a small plugin. *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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