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Resolving Name related issues in Gmail

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...

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...