Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

This blog was written up after I started noticing some queries on sender's remorse. Questions such as "How do I cancel an email after it is sent out" or "When will Gmail introduce the recall feature before the recipient reads or opens the email" among other similar ones. All users of Gmail are aware of its Undo Send feature. It allows the sender up to a maximum period of 30 seconds or as otherwise specified in that section under Gmail Settings, General tab after they have clicked on the Send button to cancel the sending.  But, what if you realize the error thereafter?  There is a feature, presently available in Gmail, that, while not allowing you to cancel the sending or recall an email, will permit you to prevent the recipient from viewing the content of the email, which, realistically, is what you would have wanted to do in the first place. During the initial days of this blog, I wrote two separate articles on how to send messages using the Gmail Confidential...

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...

We routinely receive questions in the Gmail Help Community on how to bring over emails from other email service providers, and in some cases, the other provider may not support POP3 or is not supported by Gmailify or the ShuttleCloud API or may experience a known issue. For those circumstances, the most convenient method would be to use an email client like MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Mac or Apple Mail and follow the steps suggested below: Setup both the accounts as using IMAP. Allow the email client to download emails from both accounts. Set up the necessary folders in the destination account (in this case Gmail), which will show up as labels in the Gmail web UI. Move, Copy or Drag 'n Drop emails from the folders/inbox of the source account to the folders in the destination (Gmail) account. When your destination (Gmail) account in the email client syncs with the server, it would show the emails from the other account. Note:  This is a manual process so it needs to be performed perio...