Google introduced Gmail to the world in 2004, and I was lucky to get in on the beta version. It remains my “go-to” cloud-based email app. Almost immediately, I created GmailTips.com to provide Tips and Tricks about Gmail as I explored and discovered its capabilities, features, and quirks. Over the years, My Tips turned into a rather large collection, so I rolled it into my main JimsTips.com site.
I stopped providing tips several years ago, and while Gmail continues to evolve, some of these tips are outdated or irrelevant. But they provide a glimpse of what I was interested in, and the evolution of Gmail. I continue to be a huge proponent of Gmail, so if you have any Gmail questions, please feel free to contact me!
Welcome to GmailTips.com!
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What is Gmail?
Gmail is a free POP3 and IMAP webmail service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany …
Gmail Beta: First Impressions
The other day, I received an “invitation” to beta test Google’s new “Gmail” email service. After hav…
How I Imported archived email into Gmail
I have a large number (about 1000) of archived emails that I have saved over the years, and I am loo…
Gmail Tip #1: All About Labels
Labels. Gmail lets you assign a Label to a message and then view all messages assigned to that Label…
Gmail Tip #2: Check Your Messages
To leverage Gmail’s excellent Label and Search functions, I imported close to 1000 archived emails i…
Gmail Tip #3: How to Maintain Notes
Some email providers provide a “Notes” function to let you maintain a list of notes. For example you…
Gmail Tip #4: Formatting Your Name
Gmail’s account names (you know, the “left” side of your email address) are very forgiving. Read mor…
Gmail Tip #5: The Plus Side of Gmail
Like many Email providers, Gmail supports the standard “plus” addressing scheme. But just what is it…
Gmail Tip #6: Define a Signature!
When Gmail was first released to Beta, it was missing the ability to create an automatically appende…
Gmail Tip #7: Quickly Addressing A Message
Want to know a quick way to address another Gmail user? Read more to find out!Did you know that you …
Gmail Tip #8: Working With Lots Of Emails
There are some idiosyncracies that you should understand when working with large numbers of messages…
Gmail Tip #9: New Mail Notification!
One often asked for feature has been some sort of automatic notification. Some suggestions ahve been…
Gmail Tip #10: Some Tips about Conversations
Conversations are very handy. They group related emails letting you easily track what was sent and t…
Gmail Tip #11: Connecting Securely
Unlike many other Web-based email providers, Gmail offers an SSL-encrypted login by default. This me…
Gmail Tip #12: Archiving Explained
One concept that’s sometimes a bit unclear to new Gmail users is that of “Archiving” messages. I’m n…
Gmail Tip #13: Some More About Conversations
I covered this partially in another tip, but I feel it is important to repeat it. One of Gmail’s exc…
Gmail Tip #14: What Happens To Sent Messages?
When you “send” a message, two things happen to it: 1. it gets copied into your “All Mail” view, and…
Gmail Tip #15: New feature – Highlighting on/off!
Looks like Gmail added a new feature! You can now control “highlighting” of searched words in Search…
Gmail Tip #16: New feature – View or Download for attached images
Looks like Gmail added another new feature! You now have the option of viewing or downloading image …
Gmail Tip #17: Advanced Search – View Multiple Labels
Gmail has some advanced searching capabilities that, if you take the time to learn, enables you dril…
What if Gmail was a PC-based Email Client?
ATTENTION REGISTERED USERS!! It’s time to turn the tables a bit here. Here’s a chance for Registere…
Gmail Tip #18: Some Forwarding Idiosyncracies
One very important note to Gmail users: Gmail’s “Forward” function only forwards plain text. While t…
Gmail Tip #19: Advanced Search – Query Words
One of Gmail’s excellent features is its Search function. Searching can be as simple as entering a k…
Gmail Tip #20: Why some attachments bounce
Gmail is trying to help combat the spread of viruses by implementing a “feature” that prevents email…
Gmail Tip #21: Official Features and Bugs Status Page!
Want to know what features and bugs the Gmail developers are currently working on? Read on to learn …
Gmail Tip #22: Advanced Search – Multi-Labeled and Un-Labeled Messages
In an earlier tip, I briefly explained how to perform Advanced Searching using Gmail’s “query words”…
Gmail Tip #23: Cleaning Your Contacts
One of Gmail’s “features” can leave you with extra entries in your Contacts list. Read on for more i…
Gmail Tip #24: New feature! Import Contacts
Once again, the hard working Gmail Developers have implemented yet another much-requested feature: I…
Gmail Tip #25: Find Your Unread Messages
Want a quick and easy way to view all of your "Unread" messages? Here’s a neat tip submitt…
Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group!
Gmail currently does not provide the facility to send emails to a Group or a List or email addresses…
Gmail Tip #27: Adding Hotmail Contacts to Gmail
Do you have a lot of Hotmail contacts that you would like to add to your Gmail Contacts? “Montevino”…
Gmail Tip #28: Gmail Notifier released to beta!
Those crazy yet wonderful Gmail Developers have once again brought us a new toy: Gmail Notifier! Rea…
Gmail Tip #29: A Small Quirk With Gmail Notifys mailto: Handler
Read on to better understand a small idiosyncracy with Gmail’s Gmail Notifier application…One cool…
Gmail Tip #30: Removing a Label
I just stumbled on this one. (Sometimes during a Beta period, you have to “find” new features yourse…
Gmail Tip #31: Improved and New Contacts Features!
The “Contacts” function has been enhanced to provide some additional functionality, and now adopts t…
Gmail Tip #32: Drafts!
Gmail now has the capability to save “Drafts” of your messages! This is a long-awaited feature that …
Gmail Tip #33: Auto-forward received Gmail!
Want to use your Gmail account as your main email account but have some or all email auto-forwarded …
Gmail Tip #34: Gmail on your Palm!
If any of you Gmail users own “connected” PalmOS PDA’s, you can now use SnapperMail to retrieve your…
Gmail Tip #35: Gmail on your Palm! – Part 2
I posted an article on how to access your Gmail account using SnapperMail via Gmail’s POP3 feature. …
Gmail Tip #36: Some Email Management Tips
This tip is inspired by an inquiry by “Debra” about how to find archived email. Though I cover Archi…
Gmail Tip #37: New Feature: Image Attachment Thumbnails
Read on for a simple description of a simple new feature…Gmail’s site describes it as: “It’s like…
Gmail Tip #38: Google Gmail Minibrowser
“The Google Deskbar includes a minibrowser that you can use to quickly open your Gmail account in co…
Gmail Tip #39: New Feature! Gmail From Most Any Browser!
From the beginning, Gmail has always required a “supported browser” to gain access and work with Gma…
Gmail Tip #40: New Feature! Rich formatting!
It’s the nail in the coffin…the icing on the cake…the “You had me at hello” feature! Gmail final…
Gmail Tip #41: How Much Space Do I Have?
Notorious for its April Fools jokes, Google announced on 01-Apr-2005 that it had upped its disk spac…
Gmail Tip #42: A More Worldly View
Parlez-vous fran?ais? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Or if you read any of 11 newly supported languages, you…
Gmail Tip #43: Notes in Just Two Clicks!
“Tjeerd” from the Netherlands submitted a neat Gmail Tip that takes a different yet very simple appr…
Gmail Tip #44: Using An Email Client
Gmail's POP3 access lets you leverage third-party Email Clients like Outlook or Thunderbird, giv…
Gmail Tip #45: Backing Up Your Gmail Account
Gmail is an excellent service, but I sometimes get concerned about the security of keeping all my me…
Gmail Tip #46: Creating a Map Repository
Do you find yourself repeatedly looking up the same map info at any of the various online map servic…
Gmail Tip #47: Gmail Adds Chat!
Google has just announced that they are adding Chat capability within Gmail! Go to http://mail.googl…
Gmail Tip #48: Gmail Ads Google Calendar Integration!
Google launched its new Google Calendar service, and added excellent integration to Gmail. (Check ou…
Gmail Tip #48: Reply Without Scrolling
Here’s a simple one. Do you ever find it annoying that in order to Reply to a message, you have to s…
Gmail Tip #49: Moving the Chat Quick Contacts Box
Here’s another simple tip. By default, the integrated Chat "Quick Contacts" block displays…
Gmail Tip #50: Changing Subject Text When Replying or Forwarding
Sometimes, you want to reply to or forward a message, but the Subject text is either annoyingly mang…
Gmail Tip #51: Keyboard Shortcuts
Gmail’s User Interface is quite usable, but sometimes a mouse just seems to get in the way of effici…
Gmail Tip #52: Can I “Delete all” Spam?
Do you have a lot of Spam messages in your Spam view? I seem to get between 10 and 15 Spam messages …
Gmail Tip #53: How Can I View Outlook Stationery In Gmail?
The short answer is: "You can’t." Outlook (and several other email clients) enable you to …
Gmail Tip #54: New Feature! Select ALL conversations
{josquote}New feature!{/josquote}Deleting Spam and emptying Trash in Gmail just got a whole lot easi…
Gmail Tip #55: Excluding Chat from Search Results
Here's a tip inspired by a question from Ethan Lipman, an active Gmail Chat user. He wants to be…
Gmail Tip #56: Five New Features Launched!
Gmail has just rolled out 5 new features to add to Gmail’s arsenal including new Mobile Phone access…
Gmail Tip #57: Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Here’s a quick tip inspired by "garfalk" for you Mac users out there…. Gmail’s Mac key c…
Gmail Tip #58: Gmail Now Opened to Everyone!
Gmail, Google’s free Web-based email service, has swept the world, and has become very, very popular…
Gmail Tip #59: New Feature! Gmail adds POP “Mail Fetcher”
Gmail now lets you to fetch mail from up to 5 of your other, POP-enabled non-Gmail accounts! And onc…
Gmail Tip #60: Deleting A Message And Moving To The Next
This tip comes from a question asked by a site visitor, Daree: "I was wondering how you can del…
Gmail Tip #61: Enhancement: Attachment Size Doubled to 20MB!
Gmail announced today that it has doubled the allowable size for attachments from 10MB to 20M…
Gmail Tip #62: Enhancement: “Univeral Navigation Bar”
Google has recently enhanced some navigational features across most of its offerings by providing a …
Gmail Tip #63: Gmail And Your Blackberry
Stephen Swire, a GmailTips.com visitor, sent me some information on how he uses Gmail with his Black…
Gmail Tip #64: Gmail Rolls Out IMAP!
Gmail has finally rolled out its long-awaited IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) compatibility …
Gmail Tip #65: Colored Labels!
Gmail now lets you define colrs for specific labels. In the message list, any label that has a color…