There's much more to Google's free email service than an inbox. Here's how to turn Gmail into a major productivity booster.
Fetch mail from other accounts
Although you probably have one primary email account, you may regularly receive messages at more than one address.
You can configure Outlook, Thunderbird, and other email programs to download messages from all of your accounts, so that you can see all of your email in one convenient location (get Thunderbird here). Not surprisingly, Gmail lets you do the same thing, allowing you to centralise all of your mail in Gmail's inbox.
Besides reducing your likelihood of forgetting which account has the message you're looking for, this practice ensures that all of your mail will pass through Gmail's excellent spam filter. For instructions on how to proceed, see "Use Gmail as a universal inbox".
- Read, label, archive Gmail
- Assigning Gmail labels
- Fetch mail from other accounts
- Label Gmail automatically via filters
- Creating Gmail filters
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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