Gmail is one of the popular tools of Google. There is no doubt that Gmail has some inbuilt unique features which no other email client has and hence it will very soon become the most popular web based email program.
Here are some of those features:
1. Many people might know that there are two ways to load Gmail. One is "Standard" view for those people who have faster internet connection. Second one is "Load Basic HTML" view, for those who don't have faster internet connection.
But, there is one more way which will load your Gmail even faster and that is "mobile" version. Just type m.gmail.com in the address bar without http/www protocol and press enter, you will see the difference yourself.
2. While sending an email to another Gmail user, you can simply send the mail to his id, i.e. you can skip ‘@gmail.com’ and still the mail gets delivered to the exact recipient.
3. You can get the RSS feed of your Gmail inbox in the same manner like you get feeds of different websites in your RSS feed reader. The feed URL that you would need is http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
The only drawback here is that the feed requires authentication and hence it is not viewable in some feed readers which includes Google Reader. You can view it in desktop based RSS readers like FeedDemon.
4. Consider, your Gmail id is myusername@gmail.com. Now, send mail to my.username@gmail or MYuser.name@gmail and check your inbox. You will find those mails in your inbox though the mail ids were different.
Well, for Gmail its not different. Gmail allow registeration of any username only once. Once you sign up for a particular username, any dot or capitalization variations are made permanently unavailable for new registration. If you created myusername@gmail.com, no one can ever register my.username@gmail.com, or MYuser.name@gmail.com. Gmail doesnt consider .(dot) as characters.
But, the reverse case is not possible for security reasons, if your Gmail id is my.username@gmail.com. Now, if you try to login by just giving "myusername" as user name(without dot), you will fail.
5. When you register for Gmail, you get two mail address automatically. Consider, you’ve got an email address as username@gmail.com, you automatically get another email address which is username@googlemail.com. Both are same.
This can be helpful when you want keep different mail address for different group of contacts and filter out mails from any of these addresses.
6. This is one of the best feature of Gmail which can be used to track spammers.
Just send a mail to youremailid+typeinanythinghere@gmail.com, adding +(plus) followed by anything and the mail ends in your inbox !!
Nowadays, whenever we register with any website(www.abc.com), we are required to enter our mail id.
So lets consider that you give your id as myemailid+abc@gmail.com.
Now, log into your gmail id and set up a filter for that mail id to a different folder. Now if you get spam on that particular id, you will know who sells your id.
7. Gmail provides you with some useful searching tips as follows:
Hope, the above tips helps you to use Gmail in a more efficient way and share your views!!
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