Gmail’s
forwarding feature makes it easy to automatically pass emails on to
other accounts without any effort on your part. With Gmail’s filter
feature and a few extra steps, you can also automatically forward emails
to multiple accounts.You can have your emails automatically forwarded to another address. You can forward all of your new messages, or just specific kinds of messages. Note that spam messages aren't included when you choose to forward all new mail.
To forward emails from another email provider to Gmail, you’ll have to change your settings in the other account, not in Gmail. Visit your other email provider’s help center to find out if automatic forwarding is available and how to set it up.
Forward all new emails
Open the Gmail account that you want to forward from.
At the top right, click the gear .
Select Settings.
Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
Click Add a forwarding address in the “Forwarding” section.
Enter the email address you want to forward to.
For your security, we'll send a verification email to that address. Open your other email account and find the confirmation message from the Gmail team. If you’re having trouble finding it, check your Spam folder.
Click the verification link in that email.
Back in your Gmail account, reload the page in your web browser - look for the reload icon .
On the same Forwarding and POP/IMAP page in Settings, check that Forward a copy of incoming mail is selected and your email address is in the drop-down menu.
In the second drop-down menu, choose what you want Gmail to do with your messages after they’re forwarded, such as keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox (recommended) or archive Gmail’s copy.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
Forward only some emails
If you only want to forward certain kinds of messages to another
account, use filters to forward messages that meet specific criteria.
For example, a parent could automatically forward emails from their
child’s school to the other parent.
Forward to multiple accounts
Gmail can only auto-forward all of your mail to one email address at a
time. You can see what address Gmail is currently forwarding to in the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab of Settings.
To forward emails to multiple accounts, you can use filters to
forward specific types of messages to each account. You can create up to
20 filters that forward to other addresses.
Stop auto-forwarding
If you no longer want to automatically forward your mail, follow these instructions:
Open the Gmail account that you forward from.
At the top right, click the gear .
Select Settings.
Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
Select Disable forwarding in the “Forwarding” section.
Click the first drop-down menu after “Forward a copy of incoming
mail to” and check for any addresses listed as “(in use by a filter).”
To disable the forwarding filter, choose the Remove option.
Gmail is trusted by many peoples most of them using gmail as personal mailbox. It’s already good, but
there are some Gmail tools to make it all kinds of better. We have
covered some smart ones that improve your Gmail experience on Chrome, help you write better emails, and some that even help you with your job search.
Now it’s time to introduce you to a few more tools that you might
have missed. Let’s see how they can help if you have a Gmail account.
Mixmax: To Snooze Email, Add Polls, Create Templates
Mixmax is the Swiss Army knife of Gmail tools. It’s one of those
tools that deserve an article of their own, but for now an introduction
will have to do.
Mixmax does everything from email snoozing and scheduling to template
creation and embedded surveys. You can upgrade the compose window and
write with Markdown.
One of its top benefits is easier scheduling of meetings. You pick a
few dates that work for you in your calendar and your guest then picks
one of them that’s convenient for him or her, saving a lot of back and
forth emailing.
With Mixmax, you can also add attachments from Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, including files larger than 25MB.
The app comes in the form of a Chrome extension. Once you install and activate it, your Gmail’s Compose window will gain several more features, including a Send Later
button and a services menu from which you can create polls and surveys,
add calendar invites, share meeting availability, etc. You’ll also see a
couple of options for snoozing and tracking emails.
If you’re an Inbox by Gmail user, Mixmax works for you too. It has a limited free version. Pro plans start at $12/month (or $9/month if billed annually).
Typeless brings all your contacts from various popular web services to your Gmail inbox and lets you share them effortlessly. No more copy-pasting email addresses and phone numbers from ContactsGmail!
Once you sign up for Typeless and connect at least one of your web
accounts for importing contacts from, you’re good to go. You’ll see
detailed contact profiles in your inbox à la Rapportive.
Typeless can bring in contacts from Gmail, Linkedin, Facebook, Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Chrome extension as well as a separate app for users of Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013.
The best thing about Typeless? It allows you to connect multiple Gmail accounts. It also has a
Charlie: To Get Acquainted Before You Get Introduced
How many times have you found yourself running web searches for
people you’re about to meet for work? Quite often for it to be time
consuming, right? You don’t need to do that anymore, because Charlie is
here to take over from you.
You know those “bad guy” dossiers that detectives put together in spy
movies? Charlie gives you something like that, minus the thick files
and for “un”sinister reasons. And about far nicer people of course.
Once you sign up for the web version of Charlie and link it with your
Google account, Charlie swings into action and gives you one-pagers
about people you’re going to sit across from in your next meeting.
You’ll get a mix of personal and professional information about people —
social network updates, mentions on the web, and details that you can
use as conversation starters. Here’s a quick snapshot of the kind of
one-pager you can expect from Charlie.
Wondering how Charlie pulls up the right information? That’s based on
the contact details of attendees in your meeting invites. You’ll get
these data alerts an hour before you have to walk into any meeting. You
can also get Charlie’s insights on the iPhone.
SaneBox herds all incoming unimportant emails
to a separate folder (SaneLater), so that the emails that are most
important to you can rise to the top in your inbox. Don’t worry that
SaneBox will delete the unimportant emails. It won’t; it will just keep
them out of your way.
After you give SaneBox access to your Gmail account, it will walk you through a few review screens to:
Understand what kind of emails you’d like to defer
Show you how you can train SaneBox to identify unimportant emails
The app adds another folder (named SaneNoReplies) to your inbox to store important email threads that you need to follow up on.
With SaneBox, you can also send reminders to yourself and move file
attachments to your favorite cloud storage service. It comes with a free
14-day trial. No credit card required! Paid plans start at $12 a month.
If you’d like to know which emails in your inbox are being tracked,
Ugly Email is for you. Its function is straightforward. Once you install
the UglyEmail Chrome extension,
it sniffs out the emails that come with a “tracking device” and marks
them with an eye icon. This makes it easy for you to identify which
emails are keeping tabs on your clicks and opens without having to open the emails themselves.
Now, what you choose to do with that information is up to you. You
could ignore the email and not open it or you could use another tool to
block the trackers. Ignoring the tracking itself and moving on with your
curiosity satisfied is another option, but probably not an easy choice.
You probably guessed from the title that Morning Mail is Tinder for email. It works with Gmail, but is not limited to it. It is limited to iOS devices though, and is great for Inbox Zero enthusiasts.
New emails appear as cards in your inbox, and as you’d expect, swiping cards left deletes messages. Swiping right
archives them and swiping down marks them as read. You also have a
regular inbox view, and swiping left and right works in this view as
well.
We’re all for boosting Gmail’s capabilities, but we wouldn’t
recommend adding every Gmail app that comes your way. Be discerning and
choose the ones that really serve some purpose in your workflow, not those that just look good on the surface. And while you’re powering up Gmail with useful apps, explore some of Gmail’s underused native features as well.
hello readers, lets secure your gmail account by following simple steps. you will lost a lot of important data if they hacked into your Gmail account? Better that you don’t find out. Instead of leaving your emails vulnerable, take these quick and easy steps to secure your account right now. So secure your Gmail account from hacked by others
Seting up Strong password & enable two-step verification
1. Access your security settings. Log into Gmail, click your profile photo at the top right of the screen, and select My Account to get to your dashboard. Under Sign-In & Security, click on Signing in to Google.
2. Set a new strong password. You absolutely do NOT want a weak password for your Gmail account. Check out these common password mistakes and make sure you avoid all of them. Instead, create an unbreakable password.
To do this, under Password & Sign-In Method, click Password. Enter your current password, then enter your new password, and confirm.
3. Enable two-step verification. Sometimes called two-factor authentication, two-step verification just means that you’ll need a password AND another identifier to access your account. In this case, your physical smartphone.
To set it up, under Password & Sign-In Method, click 2-Step Verification. When prompted, enter your mobile phone number. You’ll receive a text message with a code — enter it when prompted.
From now on, whenever you log into your account, you’ll receive a code from Gmail on your phone. That way if someone tries to hack into your account, they won’t be able to since they don’t have your phone.
That’s it! Done.
If you really want to be secure, however, you may want to consider migrating away from Gmail and using a safer alternative email service like ProtonMail or GMX. But for most people, these three steps should be enough.
How to Attach and Send Zip, Exe,Videos any Files with Gmail
Google does not allow to send mp3, videos, zip, rar files using Gmail. But we can send jpg files freely. Because of the Google Antivirus Program. Google is very aware about attachment and does not allow to end any zip, etc files using Gmail because of malware and viruses and security issue.
How to Attach and send any files on Gmail
But, We can fool Google antivirus program by changing the the extension of the files or using win rar tools. For sending others files using Gmail, we have three ways,
1. Rename the files
2. Winrar Tools
3. Using Free File hosting site like 4shared, google drive etc.
1. Rename the Files : Just Change the extension of the file. If you want to attach apps.exe then change the extension name i.e. apps.jpg
By, using this simple trick, you can easily attach and send any files using gmail.
Note :- You have to tell your friend that when they receive your file then they will change the extension name. For eg, like above files, If your friends receive apps.jpg file then they have to change again extension name i.e. apps.exe
2. Using Winrar Tool : Gmail does not allow us to send zip, exe files but allow us to send .rar files. So to send these files you have to compress the exe or zip files using Winrar tool in rar file and then you will be able to attach and send these files.
3. Using Free file Hosting Service : If you have more files to send , then you can take help of free file hosting sites like 4shared , Rapidshare, Yousendit, Google Drive, Megaupload etc.
Just, Upload your zip, exe, videos files in these file hosting site and get the link of your file and then send the link with your Gmail message.
In 21stcentury email has become one of the most important tool of our daily life. Though we use internet for many entertainment reason, but email is not a part of that entertainment circle. Whether you are a student, a teacher, an employee or a businessman, email is the most important part of our digital life. Since 1993, the dawn of email it has constantly increased its popularity and become the undetachable part of 21stcentury’s digital life. But sadly enough, after two decades of technical improvement in information technology sector, the features of email is still stuck at the same place where it was 20 years ago.Though Gmail is the most popular and practically the best public email service but still we need to bring heaven and earth just to input a simple table within our email (if you are not using Outlook desktop). Most of us use email either directly on browser or on our smart phone and a very small amount of people use Microsoft Outlook or similar kind of application to manage their emails. But for us, the web-based email users email had always been a hectic job, if you plan to add more tabular or structured data within your email. You literally have to open a few program on your desktop to create something cool and then have to copy paste it within your compose box.
But today I’m glad to share something which will end this email dooms day forever. A few months back when I was becoming completely crazy with my email pressure along with all the extra stuffs I had to do just to make my email more readable or structured I knew that the services that I was using at that time (Boomerang &MailTrack.io extension) were not enough. So one day I stumbled upon a new service called MixMax (It’s FREE). Initially I was a bit skeptical about their service as they have offered so many things – it kind a felt like an impossible dream. But as time goes on and I started using it on daily basis, I couldn’t stop myself from sharing this awesome service with you guys. If you wanna know more about the awesomeness of MixMax, just keep reading.
Features of MixMax
MixMax is not just a tool or extension that you install on your browser. It is by far the most powerful (in terms of the features it provides) extension I’ve ever seen. So, without getting any further ado here are the features that I love about Mixmax and now I cannot think emailing without it.
Support for Google Inbox
I don’t know how many of you guys use the new Google Inbox, but I’m a huge inbox guy and after using Google Inbox for a month I will never ever get back to Gmail again. But everybody has their own preference, so it is completely cool if you don’t like inbox. Now the only reason I put in the awesome feature list is because even though there are so many email specific extensions out there (may not have the cool features like mixmax) none of them even bothered to upgrade their extension so that it become compatible with Inbox.MixMax did it and they did it in a very nice way. All Mixmax features works perfectly with Google Inbox and it is a huge deal for me as I don’t have to keep using Gmail just because my extensions don’t support Inbox yet even though I don’t like it.
Slash Command
MixMax comes with a very unique feature which I call slash command. It is basically a tool which allow you insert various things within your email without even touching your mouse. You just start your typing with a “/” (slash) and as soon as you type the slash, it will show you a list of commands which you can choose directly using your keyboard. I know it doesn’t sound much awesome here, but trust me it is a huge time saver as you can do most of your stuffs without even touching your mouse. If you start using this slash command tool for your email, after a week of using it, you can’t even think emailing without it. It is that much good. Also if you do insert something using your mouse, it will basically show you the respective slash command before inserting it, so that next time you don’t have to touch a mouse.
Email Templates
This is another great feature which I know will excite many of you. Whether you are a business person, student or a support staff at some company, there are always certain kind an emails which you have to send many times a day with a minor change like name, date etc. Generally, what most people do is they save these emails in a Microsoft Word document and then when time comes, they just copy paste it within the compose widow. But hey, this is a lot of effort just for sending same emails over and over. Also there is a huge chance of getting things wrong. As an example let’s say you forget change the client’s name or date after copy pasting. You can either lose your deal or your job for a mistake which wouldn’t have happened if email features have been improved in past twenty years.
But now withMixMax, you can create as many email templates you want with variables assigned like{{first name}},{{last name}}etc. in it. So that whenever you need to send that same email again, you justinsert your templatefrom your Mixmax saved template list and tab through your variables to make the changes. It is so easy and error free.
Track Email Open and Clicks
I think this is the most useful feature for almost everyone who ever used email. Many times when we send an important email, we wait intensely for a reply from the other end. Whether it is a work email or business proposal email. When we don’t get a reply, there are many thought that starts clouding our head like maybe the person is in vacation, maybe the person is not interested or maybe the person is avoiding my emails. But there is no certain way to understand that secretly without informing the recipient. But now you can with theemail tracking feature of MixMax. It will notify you when the recipient has opened the email, how many times it has been opened, if the recipient has clicked on the links that you have included within your email and which exact links they have clicked on. I know some of you might be saying MailTrack.io also provides the same feature, but the reason I like Mixmax over MailTrack.io is because first it does the job in a better way than MailTrack.io and secondly I just have to install one extension i.e. Mixmax for everything, not one extension for each feature, which keeps my browser lighter too.
Inserting Tables Within your Emails
As I mentioned above, even in 21st century if we have to insert a table within an email, we either have to use Microsoft Outlook (don’t like personally) or have to use Microsoft Word (or similar word processor) to create a table and then copy paste it into our email. Such a waste of time and effort. Now with MixMax, you can insert tables directly within your compose window. Awesome, isn’t it? You either use the slash command /table [rows] [columns] or hover on the “Enhance” button within your compose window and click on Table. It is that simple. But I must tell you this also that if you are looking for a much more complex table which have cell merge and other advance stuffs included, then I will suggest you to use the old school way i.e. create the table on a word processor and then copy-paste it into your compose box. But for general tables (which we mostly use) it works perfectly fine.
Scheduling Meetings
MixMax has an awesome schedule meeting option. Earlier we have to send an email to the recipients with our free time schedule so that the person can choose a preferable time from your list and then you have to manually enter that data within your email for a reminder. But now with the awesomeness of Mixmax, you can directly select your available times from your Google Calendar and then send your free time details to the recipient in an awesomely good-looking manner. Then the recipient can click on any time he/she wanna schedule the meeting and it will automatically add that meeting to your Google Calendar. Such a clean, simple and easy to schedule meetings.
Inserting Polls and Survey
This is something which can help all marketing person and support guys. We often need to ask our users/clients for their feedback about our service. Earlier we have to use various paid services just to do polls and surveys, but now with MixMax, you can insert pools and surveys directly within your compose box and you don’t have to pay any fee for that. It’s completely free. What you have to do is, just hover on the “Enhance” tab within your compose box and then select either “Poll” or “Survey” and then a popup window will open up where you can fill up all the values you wanna set for your poll/survey.
Send Emails Later
If you have Mixmax attached with your inbox, you can send emails to a later date. So, if you are sending an email to someone who lives in a different time zone, you can set the email to be send sometime when it will be morning on the recipient’s end. You can choose any date and time and the email will be sent to the recipient even if your computer is closed.
Insert Formatted Code
To all geeks like me, this is one of the most heavenly feature MixMaxhas to offer. Often we need to send snippet of codes to each other for various reason. But no matter how well you format your code, when you paste it within your compose box, it just always looks awful. But in MixMax there is actually an option to insert formatted code within your email, which is handcraftedly built for geeks like us. All you have to do is over on the “Enhance” tab within your compose window and then select “Formatted Code” from the list. After you select, it will open up a popup window where you can give a title of your code and select the formatting of your code for almost all languages out there. It is simply awesome.
Free Upgrade to Starter Pack
Another great thing I love about MixMax is that they are not money hungry organization like most others. They focus on quality over money. Now after seeing some of the great features that I’ve mentioned above you can literally understand that it is a huge project and to run such a gigantic project by a small startup, needs lots of money and genius developers. So, there are free plans (with sight restrictions) and paid plans. If you visit their pricing page, you will get more in-depth idea about it. Now even if you start your account as a free user, if you invite 7 people to use Mixmax, they will upgrade your account to the Starter Pack (costs $9/month) for FREE. Can you imagine it? You will get a paid plan for free, just by using 7 friends. I have truly never seen such a company like Mixmax, who not only provides an awesome tool for taking email to the next level but also gives a paid plan for free to the users in return of 7 invites, which I feels like nothing in terms of what you are getting in return. Also trust me if you guys start using Mixmax, you will invite your friend anyway, because it is so good.
Honorable Mentions
To be very honest with you guys Mixmax comes with so many features that if I write one paragraph for each of its feature, the size of the article will be atleast 10,000 words and no one will read it. So, I’m providing a list of Mixmax features which I haven’t explained above so that you guys can see yourself how many features this single extension has.
Separator
Giphy GIFs
Mail merge
Link Preview
PDF Slideshow
Github Gist Embed
Google Maps Embed
Call to Action Buttons
Complex Math Equations
Unlimited Size Attachments
YouTube/Vimeo Video Embed
Twitter Tweets/Timeline Embed
Besides all these, MixMax guys are working hard each day to add more new features. It is simply breathtaking when you thing how a single extension can entirely change the way you use email every day.
Things that are Missing in MixMax
Now we all know that we don’t live in a perfect world. Nothing is 100% perfect. This is not different for MixMax too. No matter how awesome it is, still there are a few things that are missing in MixMax to make it 100% perfect product in my opinion. Here is a list of things that is still not available in MixMax (some of them are under development right now) but I like to see them implemented in near future.
No Support for Firefox, Safari & Opera Browser
Right now the MixMax extension only works for Google Chrome. As Google Chrome is the browser mostly used by people around the world (also the best developer friendly browser), MixMax only support Chrome for now. I’ve heard that they are developing new extension for different browsers like Firefox, Opera & Safari, but I have no idea when they are going to be launched. I personally think MixMax devs mostly concentrate of making their product even better and adding new awesome features rather than creating extensions for other browsers.
No Mobile App Available
MixMax doesn’t have any Android or iOS app at this moment. But one of the MixMax official did tell me that they are deliberately working on their mobile app and it will be launched very soon. They are also very open for feedbacks and feature requests for the mobile apps. So, if you have any sweet idea or feature request that you want to see in their mobile app, just shoot them an email atsupport@mixmax.com. I was baffled to see how much they entertain the feedback & comments about their product.
No Inline Reply Option
Unfortunately Mixmax doesn’t support inline reply at this moment. But they said that they are working on this feature and will be released soon. Now every time you reply an email you have three option to choose from. Either you can open up a small compose window of Gmail, Google Inbox or you can open up the full screen compose window or you can open up the compose window as a pop-out window. But you cannot do inline reply like we used to do within our threaded emails. You can choose your preferred compose option directly from Mixmax settings page. I hope Mixmax guys launch this feature soon because I truly miss it and I think I’m not the only person with this same feeling.
Only Support Gmail & Google Apps (all versions) Account
Unfortunately, MixMax only supports Gmail & Google Apps (all versions) account. So, if you have an email account with yahoo, outlook, rediff or anyone else, you won’t be able to use MixMax, at least right now. I hope they are working on adding more email services. But you have to understand that Google is a very developer friendly company. Whatever feature they introduce, they have a API for all of them so that genius developers like MixMax guys can take advantage of it to invent something awesome. But not all company is so lenient in terms of providing APIs to do awesome stuffs. So, I personally don’t blame MixMax guys not to include other email provider, as a developer myself, I do understand the pain.
Still Confused About MixMax Features?
Well if you are still confused about all the MixMax features that I’ve explained above, I will suggest you to take a look at this video below where I’ve demonstrated quite a few MixMax features and you can see it in action before starts using it.
Conclusion
Mixmax truly helped me to take my old boring email experience to a whole new level. Though initially I didn’t trust on it’s potential, but after using it for weeks, I cannot hold myself back from sharing it with others. It is that good. If you also kind a fed up with daily email load, I will definitely suggest you to give MixMax a try and I can assure you that you won’t regrade it even for a minute. I know there is still a few room for improvements in MixMax, but as I said nothing is perfect in this world and the best part is MixMax guys are always looking forward to new feedbacks on their product. If you have any feedback to share, just shoot them an email at support@mixmax.com. So, what are you waiting for? Go and install MixMax now and make your emails a thing to enjoy.
Feedback
So, have you guys ever used MixMax before? What is your experience with it? Are you also completely overwhelmed by it’s awesome features? I would love to hear your feedbacks on this. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below and we can continue this discussion there.
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