There's much more to Google's free email service than an inbox. Here's how to turn Gmail into a major productivity booster.
After a long courtship, I recently pledged my everlasting love for Gmail, forsaking all other email systems (well, almost) in favour of Google's free, web-hosted service.
But as in any relationship, my passion for Gmail is constrained by practical concerns. Although it possesses many excellent qualities, Gmail is far from perfect. Fortunately, I've uncovered some strategies that will give my walk down the aisle with Gmail a good chance of yielding a happily ever after.
- Read, label, archive Gmail
- Assigning Gmail labels
- Fetch mail from other accounts
- Label Gmail automatically via filters
- Creating Gmail filters
- Gmail digs IMAP
- IMAP and POP3 support for Gmail
- Chat with your AIM buddies
- Improving on near-perfection
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Jeff Porter said: I am disappointed with gmail I have never used an e-mail service which supplies me with so much Spam despite the filters I have put in place Closing my account seems to be the only way to clear the problem unfortunately the help files do not inform me how this can be achieved so I am still having to remove the Spam and empty the Trash several timeas a day despite the fact that I no longer use the gmail service