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Offline Gmail: Choose What Messages To Download

Umar — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:10:38 +0000

Having your emails stored on your PC rather than your online inbox can provide you with easy offline access to your emails. This way you don’t need to log in to your inbox each time you want to read your email. As a result, you save a lot of time by spending no time on logging in and getting right down to business.

However, your email inbox might be too large i.e. too large for you to want to save it all on your PC. You might only require certain messages to be saved for offline viewing. For instance you might want only those emails to be downloaded which are from your professor who sends assignments and notes via emails.

Choosing individually which emails to download can be quite time-consuming. But now, with a great new feature of Offline Gmail, you can work around this time-consuming issue.

By enabling Offline Gmail in the Google Labs, you can already have your emails/messages downloaded for offline viewing. Now however, Offline Gmail has been made to facilitate you further by enabling you to save only certain messages. Say you want to download all conversations in the last month which were labeled with a keyword which you can assign. With Google Gmail, you can do that with ease:

If you do such a maneuver and click ‘Save,’ and Gmail has already downloaded some messages from your previous usage of Offline Gmail, the new messages (according to your specifications) will now be downloaded and the messages which don’t plan to read will be removed off your hard drive, reducing clutter.

With this step Gmail takes free emailing service to another level.

How To Remove On Behalf Of Message In Gmail

Tony Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:50:04 +0000

Gmail is a great email product and is gaining a lot of users and is now the 3rd most used email service after Yahoo mail and MSN hotmail. Not only does it provide novel ways to manage lots of emails, but it also allows you to add other email domains to the inbox.

Until recently though any messages sent this way from a personal domain via gmail had an annoying ‘on behalf of” added to the sender field in certain email clients. Now you can finally remove the ‘on behalf of’ message within gmail as you can now add your own smtp servers:

Click on ‘Settings ‘then ‘Accounts and Import‘
Click on ‘edit info‘ on the account you want to change in the ‘Send mail as‘ section
The following popup box will appear:
Check the option to use your own smtp servers and enter it in the field
Click ‘Save Changes’

Gmails Becomes Your File Sharing Host with g2peer

Umar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:01:24 +0000

It had to happen eventually, with Gmail’s ever increasing storage capacity it was a matter of time before someone stood up and decided to take advantage of all that extra space!

And G2peer is one of those rare utilities that’s gaming to be a big player in a relatively small market!

In a nutshell, G2Peers uses Gmail addresses as a file sharing host. Setting up the software to share your files is a breeze. You don’t need to upload your files to any servers either. All you have to do is just click on share, add a new user (email address) and type in a gmail address along with the folder you want to share (from your local harddisk) and that’s it!

In order to download, Of course, you’ll need to know the addresses of valid gmail accounts that are being shared by g2peer. Assuming that you do, downloading is an even simpler task! IF the person downloading has g2peer installed they just need to type in a g2peer gmail address in the address bar, wait for the list to update, and they’re done!

From the list you can choose the files you want and just right click and download. It’s as simple as that.

If you’re really lazy to get the software but you know of a g2peer Gmail address that host files, you can just send an email from your Gmail account to the filehosting email with the following subject lines: ?_list or ?_download.

The ?_list subject line will email back to you a list of all the shared files on g2peer gmail address (along with the size of each file)

While the ?_download will reply back to you with a zip file containing the files you chose to download when you send an email with the ?_download subject line you need to specify the name(s) of the files you want in the email body.

Hopefully G2peer will soon have a strong community of members, if so who knows, maybe Bittorrent might find its first real contender.

Use A Language Filter To Reduce Gmail Spam

Tony Williams — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:49 +0000

Gmail is fantastic at removing spam. I receive about 20k spam emails a month, because I own a few domain names. Even so, only a handful make it through to my gmail inbox, which is fantastic.

However, every now and then the spammers come up with a new technique that fools the gmail spam filters. One method that can tip up gmail is spam not in English. Even though you can’t read it, it’s still annoying, so here’s how to stop it.

Click on ‘Create A Filter’ next to the Gmail search engine
In the ‘Matches’ field enter ‘( lang:af OR lang:am OR lang:ar OR lang:az OR lang:be OR lang:bg OR lang:bh OR lang:bn OR lang:bo OR lang:ca OR lang:chr OR lang:cs OR lang:da OR lang:de OR lang:dv OR lang:el OR lang:en OR lang:eo OR lang:es OR lang:et OR lang:eu OR lang:fa OR lang:fi OR lang:fr OR lang:gl OR lang:gn OR lang:gu OR lang:hi OR lang:hr OR lang:hu OR lang:hy OR lang:id OR lang:is OR lang:it OR lang:iu OR lang:iw OR lang:ja OR lang:ka OR lang:kk OR lang:km OR lang:kn OR lang:ko OR lang:ku OR lang:ky OR lang:lo OR lang:lt OR lang:lv OR lang:mk OR lang:ml OR lang:mn OR lang:mr OR lang:ms OR lang:mt OR lang:my OR lang:ne OR lang:nl OR lang:no OR lang:or OR lang:pa OR lang:pl OR lang:ps OR lang:pt-PT OR lang:ro OR lang:ru OR lang:sa OR lang:sd OR lang:si OR lang:sk OR lang:sl OR lang:sq OR lang:sr OR lang:sv OR lang:sw OR lang:ta OR lang:te OR lang:tg OR lang:th OR lang:tl OR lang:tl OR lang:tr OR lang:ug OR lang:uk OR lang:ur OR lang:uz OR lang:vi OR lang:zh OR lang:zh-CN OR lang:zh-TW)
Choose ‘Skip Inbox’
Create a new label, say ‘Foreign Spam’.
Choose ‘Delete’ so all the messages are deleted automatically. If you are worred that you might delete a genuine email, don’t worry as it will stay on the gmail servers for 30 days.

Thanks to Digital Inspiration for the tip.

Try Out new Gmail Labs Features

Tony Williams — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:23:07 +0000

Google just added some great new features to gmail that are available from their labs for users to use.? Some of these are experimental and may break at any time (you were warned!), but they do offer some very interesting new email features.

My favourite is ‘Undo Send’.? How many times have you sent an email and forgot to add the attachment, forgot to spellcheck, sent it to the wrong person or sent it before you’d finished composing?? Well, with gmail’s new Undo Send feature you can stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.? This should give you enough time to cancel and fix your email.

To view all the features available to gmail users to try, just go to ‘Settings’ in gmail and then click on ‘Labs’

How To Access Hotmail From Within Gmail

Tony Williams — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:44:10 +0000

Today’s tip will be useful for those of you who haven’t made the switch over to Gmail, or are still maintaining both a Gmail and a Hotmail address. By following the simple instructions below you will be able to access your Hotmail messages from within Gmail, so you will only have to login once.

Step1: Register With IzyMail

Step2: Add Details To Gmail

Open up Gmail and go to ‘Settings’ and then ‘Account’ and near the bottom of the page ‘Add A New Account’
In the first window that pops up enter your Hotmail address e.g. yourname@hotmail.com and click ‘Next step’
In the second window enter your hotmail username and password in ‘Username’ and ‘Password’. In the ‘POP Server’ field’ add ‘in.zymail.com‘
Now click ‘Add Account’ and you’ve finished

If you found this tip helpful or if you have any questions then please leave a comment below.

Thanks to Javed Mandary for the tip

How To Add A HTML Signature To Gmail

Tony Williams — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:37:10 +0000

Gmail is slowly eating away at the dominance of Yahoo! and MSN Hotmail in the wemail space, as in my view it’s brought a fresh approach to using email.

One of it’s major limitations was however it’s inability to add a HTML signature to emails. As always, some enterprising person who hasn’t seen daylight in months has come up with a solution to this problem whihch is very simple to implement.

If you’re a Gmail user all you have to do is the following:

Download and install Greasemonkey if you don’t already have it.
Install the script
You’ll need to have the HTML code for the signature that you want to insert. Once you have that just go to the Greasemonkey script manager and edit the script’s HTML signature to whatever you want.

Viola – you have one tricked out signature ready to go! Thanks to Ryan for showing me the way to this great tip.

If you haven’t switched to Gmail yet, why not? It just gets better and better each month.