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Dynamic Emails in Gmail

A few days ago, Google announced making emails more useful and interactive in Gmail by making the emails stay up-to-date so you always see the freshest information, like the latest comment threads and recommended jobs. The secret behind this is AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), an open source framework developed by Google in collaboration with Twitter, through which your email messages can fetch up-to-date content when the user opens a message. In short, Dynamic email allows you to do things which would otherwise have needed you to follow a link to a web page. You can use Dynamic email to: RSVP to events Fill out questionnaires Browse catalogs Respond to comments Update emails to display the latest content The initial announcement by Google was made a little over a year ago, via this blog post, https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmail/ , that discussed bringing the power of AMP to email through the Gmail Developer Preview of "AMP for Email....

Understanding Gmail's spam handling and answering some FAQs

Not much is known about how Gmail handles spam. So it is no wonder that we receive a regular stream of posts in the Gmail Help Community asking about various aspects of Spam. A few common questions would be: Why is only Gmail flagging messages from me as Spam? My domain was used to send out spam in the past but we have removed that address and changed other details. We are no longer being listed under any blacklists. So, why are emails from our domain still being marked as spam? Please whitelist our domain. Spam filter sending messages to other category tabs instead of Primary. My messages to Gmail are not being delivered. Gmail has suddenly started marking emails from my domain as spam.  I shall include answers to the questions above after discussing how Gmail handles spam and how to best approach resolving these issues. This blog is divided into three sections: Understanding Gmail's Spam Handling How to approach resolving your issue Answers to the FAQs Unders...

Revisiting Canned Responses (Templates) in Gmail

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 the 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 prerequisites 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. ...