Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

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...

Why Gmail Displays the Wrong Name on Sent Emails (And How to Fix It) Quite often, we see a different name while hovering over our profile in our Gmail inbox, or our recipients may see an unexpected sender name on outgoing messages that isn't easily traceable. This guide walks through each scenario step-by-step to show how it affects outgoing messages in a recipient's inbox and where to fix it. Here are the links to the sections The Name on the Google Account The Name in Gmail's "Send Mail As" Settings Your Email Address Saved in Your Own Contacts Third-Party Email Clients & Mobile Apps 1. The Name on the Google Account Your primary Google Account name can be updated from either of the following official account pages: myaccount.google.com/name myaccount.google.com/profile/name Visiting the first link opens the standard name edit...

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. ...