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On Gmail's Daily Sending Limit

We receive many threads in the Gmail Help Community regarding the daily sending limits of personal Gmail accounts ending with @gmail.com. Users typically complain about (a) messages beyond a certain number (often around 100) bouncing back or (b) being unable to increase the daily sending number even when it is comfortably under the limit of 500 recipients mentioned in the related Help Centre article here -  Limits for sending & getting mail . Gmail does not provide additional details; mostly to prevent any abuse of their systems and hence, it becomes difficult for the genuine users to figure out what to look for and how to resolve this situation and prevent its recurrence. In most cases, the affected account is allowed to send messages within 1 to 24 hours. In this article, we are going to look into the other details that are related to this issue and can impact the daily sending limit on a particular personal Gmail address. There are a few things to keep in mind concerning the dai

Saying Goodbye to the Gmail Basic HTML view

If you are, like me, a fan of the Gmail Basic HTML view, then you must have noticed the following splash screen trying to access Gmail through its Basic HTML UI in recent days. When I saw it for the first time, my heart sank. As someone who started using Gmail a month after its launch, the Gmail Basic HTML view was the first Gmail UI I was introduced to and it was love at first sight. I loved the cleanliness of the layout, the placement and the functionality of the search box, quick access to the Contacts and the various links at the top and the bottom of the inbox screen among other things. With time, other features were added to the view, until in 2011, the Gmail team decided to overhaul the default Gmail UI to a more polished UI, which was called the Gmail standard web view to differentiate it from the Gmail Basic HTML view. Since the majority of the users back then used browsers to access Gmail, the change in the UI caused a big discussion in the Gmail help forum and resulted in th

Gmail Category Labels and Inbox Category Tabs

Often we see threads in the Gmail Help Community where we are asked to explain the difference between the Category labels and the Inbox category tabs in Gmail. We begin the discussion by visually highlighting what we mean by the Inbox category tabs and the Category labels and where they are located. Now, we are going to take a look at the differences, with examples. So, let's begin. Commonly, if we click on one of the Category labels, say Promotions, we see a list of messages that Gmail internally categorizes as such, based on various signals such as how they are marked up, what they contain, the domain they are sent from, etc.  As shown in the screenshot above, it also generates a search query for our better understanding - category:promotions  and it is important to remember this little detail. Similarly, when we click on the Promotions tab in Gmail inbox, it also shows a list of messages, in fact, the same set of messages in this case. So, where's the difference? To demonstr

Explaining the entries in the Gmail Account Information window

The Gmail Activity Information (formerly known as the Gmail Last Account Activity) window presents the easiest way to check for unauthorized account access or suspicious activities within Gmail. One can access that window by clicking on the Details link below the Last account activity link at the bottom-right of the Gmail Inbox page in the Gmail standard web UI. Note: In certain inbox layouts, such as Unread First with the Preview pane enabled and a conversation selected, you may not see the Details link. In that case, simply reload the page to see that option in the preview pane. The window includes the last ten entries when your Gmail was accessed using web browsers, POP/IMAP email clients, Gmail or third-party mobile apps, any other Google apps, etc. and lists the IP address that accessed your email, the associated location, as well as the time and date. As shown, some of the entries will have a “Show details” link next to them to display additional information when clicked upon. A

Using the "Help me write" feature in Gmail

Something exciting launched some months ago; the Gmail "Help me write" feature was launched allowing users of Gmail to use AI for drafting email messages. In this blog, we shall go through the steps of enabling this feature for our Gmail and look at ways we can use it. To begin, using this feature requires us to enable Workspace Labs, which is currently available to trusted testers in US English , and may not be available in your country. So, if your Gmail is set to another language, you need to switch your Gmail language to English US from the  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/general  page. To check if Workspace Labs is available in your country, please visit  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13607340 . After confirming Workspace Labs availability and the Gmail language, you need to visit the Google Workspace Labs page -  http://workspace.google.com/solutions/ai .  Once arrived, click on the "Sign up" link at the top of the page. You'll then be

Bengali version of Email Authentication and Handling Unsolicited Emails in Gmail Inbox

প্রতিদিনই আমরা পরিচিত এবং অজানা উৎস থেকে ইমেল পেতে থাকি। সুতরাং, এটি অত্যাবশ্যক যে আমরা ওই সব ইমেলগুলির সাথে জড়িত ঝুঁকিগুলিকে শনাক্ত, এড়ানো এবং সঠিকভাবে মোকাবেলা করতে যে সকল তথ্য জানার প্রয়োজন, তা নিশ্চিত করতে পারি।  জিমেলের স্প্যাম সনাক্তকরণ পদ্ধতি যে সমস্ত ইমেল আমাদের কে পাঠানো হয় সেগুলি সঠিক, নকল, অসুরক্ষিত অথবা অপ্রয়োজনীয় চিহ্নিত করতে একাধিক সংকেত ব্যবহার করে। এর মধ্যে কিছু আমাদের জানা এবং বাকিগুলি গোপনীয় রাখা হয় যাতে স্প্যাম অথবা স্ক্যাম মেল প্রেরকেরা ওই সব সংকেতের অদলবদল করে সাধারণ ব্যবহারকারীদের বিভিন্ন অসুবিধায় না ফেলতে পারে। এতৎসত্বেও, স্প্যামাররা অত্যন্ত স্মার্ট এবং তারা বিভিন্ন উদ্ভাবনী উপায়ে গুগলের ওই সব সংকেত থেকে তাদের পাঠানো মেলগুলিকে বাঁচানোর উপায় খোঁজার চেষ্টা করতেই থাকে এবং বিভিন্ন সময় কিছু কার্যকরী পদ্ধতি পেয়েও থাকে। এই কারণেই, একটি কার্যকর স্প্যাম এবং অপব্যবহার সনাক্তকরণ ব্যবস্থা থাকা সত্ত্বেও, নানা সময়ে আমরা আমাদের ইমেল ইনবক্সে স্প্যাম মেলগুলি দেখতে পাই।  এখনকার দিনে স্প্যাম, স্পুফড, এবং ফিশিং ইমেল সম্পর্কে সবাই জানে এবং সেগুলি হল সাধারণ ধরনের অযাচিত ইমেল যা আমরা

Revoking Permission to "Always Display Images from" an email address

We tend to receive this query from time to time in the Gmail Help Community. It typically happens when we happen to receive an email with inline images and Gmail then shows the following options which is consistent with how it handles external images. In the Gmail mobile app, the same email show up as below, first with the Show pictures options and once that option is clicked, with the Always show pictures from this sender  option. Often, for convenience's sake, we tend to click on the  Always show pictures from this sender  option and then it gets tricky because we then subsequently find it difficult to locate from where we can revoke that permission. Even though you can choose to select the option to  Always show pictures from this sender  via this Gmail mobile app, you can't revoke that permission from there. For that, you need to either access Gmail via a supported, updated desktop browser or access the Gmail standard UI from your mobile browser as explained in  https://bl