Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

I happened to find a thread in the Gmail forum that read, "When I get an email, can that person get an auto reply stating my new email address?".  The easy answer to that is, "Of course!". All it requires are creating a canned response - called Templates in Gmail these days, and a filter.  In this blog, we shall look at the details of those. The first step is to create the Template (the canned response). The details related to Templates are already mentioned in  https://blogs-on-gmail.blogspot.com/2019/05/canned-responses.html , So here, I shall simply go through the process of creating a Template that suits our purpose. We write the response and then follow the process to save it as a Template. Once our response is written, we can focus on creating the filter. To begin, we click on this Show search options icon. We have just one criterion for this filter, to match all emails where our email address is entered as a recipient.  Note: Historically it was specified th

This blog is inspired by a suggestion mentioned as a feature request on Twitter, where I often visit to answer questions related to Gmail and Google Accounts.  The suggestion was about including an option to make drafts from received email with attachments, without going through the rigmarole of downloading and uploading attachments and also to create a Template response out of it. Given what Gmail presently has. it is possible to make both those things happen. Ideally, the second option should be a "No", because one of the known deficiencies of the Template responses is that it won't take in the attachment file, which is central to this blog. However, a workaround exists, which we shall use. To begin, here is the test email that we propose to convert into a draft and later into a Template response. It has some text content and a PDF file as an attachment. The first thing we do is to save the attachment in Google Drive by hovering the mouse pointer over the attachment and

I wrote my first blog on Canned Responses here - Exploring the Advanced Tab in Gmail Settings: About Canned Responses , noting "Believe it or not, there is no article on Canned Responses in the Gmail Help Centre. Probably because it has always been a lab feature in the past and now included under the Advanced tab under Gmail settings in new Gmail. So, today we take a look at this very popular feature in Gmail and the different ways we can use it.". That has remained the case, so with a change of UI, there is a need to rewrite the tutorial on how we can perform the following functions for a Canned Response or as they are now known, Templates . Create a Template Insert a Template Edit or Overwrite a Template Delete a Template Thankfully, the pre-requisites haven't changed. To start using Templates in Gmail, it needs to be enabled from the Advanced tab under Gmail settings. As always, be sure to click on the Save Changes button on the bottom of the page.