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Deleting Gmail from your Google Account

We often receive questions in the Gmail Help Community on the consequences of deleting or how to delete the Gmail address from Google account for various reasons. Deleting a Gmail address from your account is very different from deleting your Google account as the first option only deletes the Gmail service from the Google account while the second option deletes the entire Google account (all included services such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Photos, Maps, etc.) The blog post - Google Accounts - how they work  explains the concept of a Google Account in greater detail. The steps to delete a Google service and specifically Gmail, are described in the following Google help articles. Be sure to read them for your better understanding of the issue. Remove Products Delete your Gmail service  (specific to Gmail and containing details of what happens when you delete your Gmail service) The intent behind writing this blog is to include the necessary screenshots so that you are a bi

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.&