Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

In the second post on our three-part series "Exploring the Advanced Tab in Gmail", we talk about Preview Panes which offers a similar viewing experience that many of us see in email clients such as Thunderbird and Outlook. Preview Panes needs to be enabled from the Advanced tab under Gmail settings. As always, be sure to click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page after selecting the Enable option. Once Gmail reloads, you will notice a new icon in your Gmail inbox - the Toggle split-pane mode icon. Clicking on the drop-down arrow next to the toggle split-mode icon will offer you the No split, Vertical split and Horizontal split options. Here is a screenshot with the split-pane mode toggled OFF or No Split option: And the screenshots with the split-pane mode toggled ON for Vertical and Horizontal splits: Enabling Preview Pane will also add this extra option under the General tab in Gmail settings. Finally, the display of emails.

If you own another email address, Gmail allows you to send mail from your Gmail address as that address. When coupled with the option to import, fetch or forwarding emails from the other address, it empowers you to receive emails addressed to the other account and to respond to those emails from the address they were sent to - all from your Gmail account. The setting up process is easy, but there can be instances when the user may encounter the odd error messages. This blog looks to discuss scenarios where the users are most likely to receive the error messages and how they can proceed to resolve them. Scenario A: The Generic Case. The trick is to follow the suggestions included in this help article Send mail from a different address or alias . In it, you must make ensure the following: Enter the correct SMTP (outgoing) server name. If need be, contact your domain administrator and verify. Enter the complete username in the username@yourdomain.com format. Enter the password

When we discuss inbox layouts in Gmail, we mostly talk about the default tabbed categories, the various "firsts", Priority Inbox but miss out on the very functional Multiple Inboxes which has been available as a lab feature in classic Gmail and now included as a feature under the Advanced tab in new Gmail. The flexibility of Multiple Inboxes lies in its ability to display emails in a section (or "inbox") matching a search result. The system allows up to five (5) such inboxes to be displayed allowing you to focus more on the emails you consider important. In a recent blog post , Google has announced that multiple inboxes will be enhanced to support independent scrolling, a unified toolbar, and adjustable width in right-side configurations. Multiple inboxes will also no longer support three-pane layouts with the preview pane (renamed “reading pane”) view. To enable the Multiple Inboxes feature, you would need to disable the default tabbed category layout of G