Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

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

Quite often, we see a different name while hovering over our name in our Gmail inbox, or our recipients may see a different senders name for us that is not easily traceable. It may happen for various reasons such as: The name on the Google account. The name entered in Gmail's "Send mail as:" option. The name your own email address is listed as under Contacts. The name entered under Accounts Settings in an email client or non-Gmail mobile app used by you. This blog goes through all the scenarios mentioned above and displays how it impacts the name on the sent messages in the recipient's inbox and where to check in case you are troubled by this issue. The name on the Google account. The name on your Google account can be changed from either of the following URLs: https://myaccount.google.com/name https://myaccount.google.com/profile/name When you click on the first link, you will be taken to the page as shown in the following screenshot after a passwor

On April 1, 2019, Google announced the Schedule send feature for Gmail which would allow the user to send out a composed email at a later date and time. This feature is available on Gmail web UI as well as the Gmail iOS and Android mobile apps. The scheduling process begins once you have completed composing the email. In Gmail web UI, you click on the down-arrow next to the blue Send button and then, click on the Schedule send option that appears above. In the Gmail Android app, you would need to click on the 3-dot (more) menu in the top right and from the options, select Schedule send. In the Gmail iOS app, you'd need to click on the 3-dot (more) menu in the top right and from the options which appear in the bottom of the screen, select Schedule send. Hereafter, it is simply the matter of choosing the date and time you want the email to send out. The first picture below shows the set of scheduling options and the second one shows the screen if you hap