Showing posts with label Gmail account. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gmail account. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

How to read Gmail offline

Earlier this year, Gmail owned by Google, introduced a feature called Offline Gmail that will allow users to check their mailbox while offline.
The way Offline Gmail works a copy of your mailbox with the latest messages in it, is downloaded while you are online, and then stored on your browser for later viewing offline.
The function needs to be turned on by logging to your Gmail account, click the Settings tab and then the Labs tab. From there, click the Enable button for Offline Gmail and hit the Save Changes button.
Once those steps are taken, you can start downloading your mailbox by clicking the new Offline line on the mailbox page.
Web-based mail is great — until you don’t have an Internet connection. To ease the separation anxiety, Google recently introduced a feature called Offline Gmail, which downloads a copy of your mailbox and all the recent messages when you do have Internet access, and then keeps it all available in your Web browser for when you don’t.
To turn it on, log into your Gmail account on the Web, click the Settings tab and then, in many browsers, the Labs tab. Click the Enable button for Offline Gmail and then the Save Changes button.
To start downloading your mailbox, click the new Offline line on the mailbox page.

For more information, go to the Gmail Blog where a video explain the process in simple terms can be viewed.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Solution for moving an e-mail account when switching Internet provider.

With all the competition among Internet service providers and Online based e-mail services, the hardest part may not be the switch but to be convinced that there is an easy way to move all your e-mail files band contacts from your old account to the new one. Most people dreaded that prospect and until recently, just the thought of it, may have made them think twice before making the move.
But nowadays, thanks to the offerings of e-mail switching services like TrueSwitch.com, moving all your files from old e-mail accounts, has become a lot easier. TrueSwitch e-mail switching services is so proven that it is used by most of the major e-mail service providers included Google's Gmail. So lets say you want to move some digital files in an old e-mail account from AOL to Google's Gmail, the process could not have been easier.
Simply, sign up and create a Gmail account and go to your new mailbox. Once there, click the Settings link at the top of the Gmail window and next click on the Accounts and Import tab and then click on the “Import mail and contacts” button. A new window opens, asking you to type in the e-mail address you want to bring into your new Gmail account. Once you type in your AOL e-mail address and password, you are presented with check boxes you can mark off to import the contacts and old mail from AOL.
And according to the New York Times, "you can also have Gmail import new incoming mail from the old AOL account for 30 days — and even slap a label on the messages from the old address so you can keep them separate from mail coming directly to the Gmail address. Click on the Start Import button to kick things off. It may take anywhere from a few minutes to two days to move everything."
For more tips and information on from what other services can you make the switch, you can link to the the Gmail blog at gmail blog.blogpost.com .

Monday, September 7, 2009

How to unscribe from unwanted e-newsletters in Gmail.

With its popularity growing, Google's free online based e-mail service Gmail is attracting also another kind of crowd: e-marketers. While how your e-mail address winded up in the hands of those companies can be the subject of another debate, one thing is clear, it is never a pleasant experience to be on the receiving end of those unsolicited emails or e-newsletters.
Now, Google seems to have recognized the magnitude of the problem and is doing something about it by introducing a new Gmail feature that let you automatically unsubscribe from unwanted mailings with the help of one click. As of now, it is not effective in stopping every source of unwanted e-newsletters, but Google is working its way to get more companies known to be in the business of sending those pieces of unwanted mails, to, get on board with the program.
To use the feature, simply log into your Gmail account and select a newsletter or mailing-list message and click the Report Spam link. For companies that support the feature, a box should pop up asking if you want to unsubscribe from the newsletter. If you choose to unsubscribe, Google sends a request asking the sender to take you off its mailing list.
For more information, the Gmail blog has more details on how auto-unsubscribe works and what kinds of messages it works with at gmailblog.blogpost.com.

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