13 Useful Gmail Email Settings That You Probably Miss Out
November 7, 2007 – 7:27 pmGmail is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited (or ever increasing?) mailbox space with user friendly internet mail client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also has other settings that you might never use before , but may be useful for you in the near future. All of these settings are available from the Gmail “Settings” page.
Here are the 13 Gmail settings that you probably miss out:
1- Gmail display language - if your mother tongue is Italiano, Bahasa Indonesia etc. , why don’t you try Gmail with some local flavors?
2- Maximum page size - 50 email documents in one page is too much clutter? Set it to 25!
3- My picture - send out your email attached with avatars automatically, so people recognizes you faster.
4- Personal level indicators - turn off the arrows on your mail document list if you find it annoying. I prefer to have it turned on so I can differentiate an email from a mailing list from personal emails.
5- Snippets - turn off / on snippets (message excerpts) besides your mail document list.
6- Vacation Responder - have Gmail automatically reply for each one of your email, useful when you are out of the office for a few days.
7- Send mail as - use a different address as your sender’s email address (From:). Imagine sending an email via your Gmail and ask the recipient to reply to another alternate email address.
8- Mail Fetcher - get other email documents from other POP email accounts displayed inside your Gmail. Great to combine multiple accounts into one.
9- Filters - automatically sort received email documents from different recipients to specific folders / labels. Comes with multiple filter types.
10- Forwarding - send a copy of each newly arrived emails to another email account. For backup maybe?
12- POP Download / IMAP Access - access your Gmail email documents from your desktop email client, online or offline.
13- My Clips - show or disable web clips (news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more). Useful to show instant updates of your favorite RSS feeds.
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15 Responses to “13 Useful Gmail Email Settings That You Probably Miss Out”
Very nicely done…. I’m Stumbble-Upon-ing this!
By Friedbeef on Nov 8, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Nov 8, 2007
I’ve tried most of these.. all are good options
But I find those email indicators annoying somehow
By Shankar Ganesh on Nov 8, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Nov 8, 2007
Some nice points I find the filters really useful in Gmail. I didn’t know about the personal level indicators.
By Pete White on Nov 8, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Nov 8, 2007
I very nice list for productive quality emails. I will be applying some of these in the near future, so thank you for the heads up on them.
By Bunk on Nov 9, 2007
Ahh… nice to know i didn’t miss out on any of those u mentioned. Nice tip for those who did, though.
By Cain on Nov 13, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Nov 14, 2007
All great option, not much used and known ones. Stumbled.
By Nirmal on Nov 23, 2007
very very valid points
By edwin masripan on Dec 5, 2007
Awesome post man! Many settings are new to me… Usually over look them.
By Haris on Dec 16, 2007
You made me check my language settings.. but dissappointed that local indian languages are not there…
Rest of em i knew…
But well written post
By Rajavanya on Jan 23, 2008
Cool tips =), i will try some of them…
i used to change the language to brazilian portuguese, but i’m too habituate with gmail in english that i changed back, and much changes in gmail appear firts in the english version…
much people use labels, but it still a fine addition to this list specially in use with the filters, its perfect to move your “heavy” mailing lists and organize your mail
By jonathan on Feb 13, 2008