Undiscovered Gmail features and tricks

Gmail, the free mail service from the search leader, Google was launched in 2004 as an invitation-only application, however by the end of July, 2009 the application had about 146 million monthly users. Meanwhile, the Gmail usage has climbed up to reach the third slot after beating AOL. It is estimated that user�s base has grown by 25% this year, so far.

Here we discuss some awesome Gmail tips and tricks that will help users to manage their emails effectively.

1. Attachment Alerter: Check Attachment before sending mails

In hurry, many people send mails without attachments, which look unprofessional when you are sending business related mails. The Gmail has �Attach Alerter� that will alert users before sending an email without attachment. To activate the feature, users have to enable the Forgotten Attachment Detector tool in the Gmail�s settings.

Further, users can attach multiple files by browsing and selecting th rough holding shift or control key for contiguous or different files.

2. Automatic Email Forwarding

Gmail�s users can forward their all emails to another account. You can also keep a copy in the original account after forwarding it. Also, users can forward selective mails by creating filter.

3. Gmail Search

In Gmail, the search function works smoothly and checks all the messages including chat messages, all the messages in sent box, drafts, inbox, archived and labeled folders. Users can also search individual folder or any specific folder. For this, users have to write �Searchtext in:foldername� in the search box. Further, users can also use advance search, where they can specifically search the desired information.

4. Using Multiple Gmail Accounts

Many users have multiple Email accounts for different reasons and checking mails in all the accounts could be a t edious job, but this can be done easily with Gmail by forwarding all mails from all accounts to a single account and you can access all the mails without signing into different account.

5. Last 5 Login Details

If you think that somebody else is hacking into your Gmail account users can check last five recent activities in your Gmail account with its �Last Account Activity� feature. To access the feature, you have to click on �Details� link in the Last account activity line at the bottom of your Gmail page. The information retrieved will include the access type, IP address and date with time of access.

6. Import Your Contacts

Users can import their contact details from Yahoo, Orkut and Outlook. Further, they can also import contacts from CSV file.


7. Attaching an exe file

For the safety purpose, users cannot attach an exe file like a normal file. Howeve r, you can load such files by renaming the file without an exe extension or compressing it before attaching. And the receiver has to rename it again with exe extension or uncompress the attachment after downloading the file.

8. Gmail Display Language

Users can follow Gmail in their native language and can send message in yours or recipients favorite language, by selecting language in the format bar of the Gmail.

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