1. Gmail’s system of organizing emails into
conversations (a collection of all the messages in an exchange) makes it easy
to keep track of the various messages in a discussion.
2. You can access Gmail from a cellphone or
other mobile device. Just start up your phone’s browser and point it to
http://gmail.com to sign in.
3. Although you can have periods in your Gmail
address, Gmail doesn’t actually recognize periods—it treats the address exactly
the same with or without the periods. So if your Gmail address is at.b@gmail.com,
emails sent to atb@gmail.com or even a.t.b@gmail.com will reach you.
4. If you’re reading an email and want to set
up a filter for this message and similar ones, click More Actions and select
"Filter messages like these". (You can also select messages in a
mailbox, and then choose this option.) Gmail shows the filter options with the
sender’s From address already filled in. From there, you can filter by sender
and/or any of the other filtering criteria.
5. Gmail scans your emails, looks for
keywords, and then pairs the email with advertising that relates to those
keywords. Usually, one ad’s displayed above the message you’re reading and
several others are on the right-hand side of the page (they’re easy to ignore).
But Gmail tries to keep things tasteful, so if you receive an email about a
tragedy, such as a death in the family, you won’t see any ads at all.
6. You can set up your Gmail account so that
messages sent to your other email accounts arrive in your Gmail inbox. That
way, you can check all your email accounts in one place. Even better, in Gmail,
you can send emails so that they look like they come from your various email
accounts.
7. If you write emails in more than one
language, Gmail tries to guess the language of the email you’re working on and
uses the appropriate dictionary. (If Gmail’s wrong, next to the Check Spelling
link, click the arrow, and, from the list that appears, select the language you
want.)
8. You can chat with your AOL Instant
Messenger buddies through Gmail’s version of Google Talk. In Gmail’s left-hand
Chat section, click the Options link and select "Sign into AIM", then
follow the directions.
9. To help protect you from viruses and other
Internet threats, Gmail neither sends nor receives executable files—they
typically have the file extension .exe—which can launch programs and wreak
havoc on your computer.
10. Instead of folders to file your messages
in, Gmail uses labels to organize messages. You can assign more than one label
to a message, so you have several ways of finding it and don’t have to remember
which folder you put it in.
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