Gmail Tips That Will Help You Conquer Email. Get Paid or Send MoneyIt took a while, but Google Wallet finally made it to Gmail. Click the dollar sign icon at the bottom of a message and you have the option to send money. Or select Request Money to tell someone to pay up. You and the recipient will need a Google Wallet account with banking info attached the Google Wallet setting for Send money using Gmail must also be enabled. The max is 9,9. 99 going either way. Dont Worry Too Much About Encryption. If youre worried about snoops looking at your messages, Google has been encrypting all Gmail messages since 2. Any Gmail to Gmail sending is relatively safe, and Gmail defaults to using HTTPS when you access it online. Every little bit helps. According to Googles Transparency Report, 8. Gmail between May 1. Aug. 1. 0 were encrypted its slightly higher at 8. Gmail warns when you receive a non encrypted message from outside the Google ecosystem. Pay attention to those messagesthey appear below the subject line if youre at all nervous about security and privacy. How to Increase the Outlook Attachment Size Limit Match Outlooks size limit to your mail servers size limit. These are the best free email services you can use in 2017. Gmail for Android Prevents Phishing. Gmail has been successfully used in major phishing attacks in the past, targeting users with links to malicious content. Google noticed and has, for Android at least, rolled out some protection. If there is a suspicious link in a message that you click on your Android smartphones Gmail app, Google will pop up a Warning phishing web forgery suspected warning like the one above. It might come up even for links you know are okay, but better safe than sorry. Shortcut Cheat Sheet. Gmail is chock full of keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you can do. When you transfer large files in an email message, you run the risk of exceeding the attachment size limit, which causes the send to fail. Compressing files reduces. Check out the Minimalistic Gmail Cheat Sheet from Visual. Or just hit Shift Gmail to get a pop up list. To switch things up, go to Settings Keyboard Shortcuts tab to personalize the keys used you cant customize if youre using Gmail in Google Apps for business. Gmail for Mobility. Theres a Google built Gmail app for i. OSwe gave it 5 stars at its debutand of course Gmail is the default email on Android systems. But theyre not the only way to get Gmail while mobile. Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that the current best i. OS email program is Microsoft Outlook for i. Phone, which does a great job working with Gmail accounts. But thats not all Google has another app for gmail, called, unimaginatively, Inbox, which tries to make email smarter by bundling messages that go together, making it easier to add to dos to the inbox, snoozing messages, and more. Its available on i. OS and Android and on the web watch the video for deets. Gmailify Your Yahoo or Outlook. You can access Gmail accounts and other accounts, like Yahoo and HotmailOutlook. ExchangeOffice 3. POP3 and IMAP accounts, in the Gmail app for Android. The separate accounts all get the same features as a Gmail account, like the spam filtering and tabbed inbox. The Gmail Android app is the only way to do itits not something you can do in the Web interface for Gmailand you need to have at least one Gmail account first for it to work. Click the menu, click the down arrow next to your account name, click Add Account, pick the type of account to add, and enter all the credentials. Then youll see all your email in one unified inbox on your phone or tablet. Access Gmail Via Yahoo or Outlook. If you prefer Yahoo Mail, as some do, you have the option to get your Gmail there as well as your AOL and Outlook. In the newest version of Yahoo Mail, click the gear icon More Settings Mailboxes Add Mailbox Google. Likewise, if youre an Outlook. Connected Accounts and click Gmail. You can set it to be a send only account, or import all your Gmail messages. Import Other Mail. You cant beat Gmail for searching and sorting messages. So if youve got some legacy email account using only POP3 that youve been checking on a client like Thunderbird, ditch that software and get the messages into your Gmail account. Go into Settings Accounts and Import Check mail from other accounts its right in the middle. Add it and those messages filter right in same as all the others. You can add up to five. Sign Up for Google Sans Gmail. Similarly, if you want access to all sorts of Google services, from Analytics to Drive to You. Tube, but dont actually want a Gmail account, there is a special Google account signup page where you can put in your existing email address instead of creating a new account name to be used with Google. If you change your mind during sign up and want a Gmail address, there is a link on the page to go to the regular account signup page. Use Multiple Gmail Accounts. If youre a Gmail super fan and have multiple accounts, meanwhile, theres no need to sign in and out constantly. On the desktop Chrome, Firefox, Edge, you can sign into multiple accounts at once theyll each occupy a tab and stay signed in. Click on your account on the top right Add Account. Send From a Different Address. You may have many Gmail based accounts, or multiple addresses on the same account. You can set all the addresses up in your primary Gmail, and make it look like youre sending from a completely different account, either all the time or on a per message basis. Go into Settings, find the Accounts and Import tab, and the section for Send Mail As. That will allow you to add multiple email addresses. This is great if you send a lot of messages on one account, but want replies to go into another. Move Messages to Different Accounts. While you can sign into multiple Gmail accounts at once on the desktop and mobile, only the built in i. OS Mail app lets you move a message received on one Gmail account to another Gmail accountor any email that uses i. MAP. This is very handy when you get business emails sent to your personal address, or vice versa. To make the move, open your inbox, tap Edit, check the box next to the messages you want moved, and tap Move. Select the account and folder within that account to move to. Its instantaneous. Dont Just Label Spam, Block Users. If you got a lot of crap messages back in the day, you had to label them as spam. But now Gmail lets you fully block a user whos bugging you. Click the More drop down menuthats the down arrow next to the Reply button on a message on the desktopand select Block Username. Undo the Send. This is the most important Gmail setting ever. It came from Google Labs, and has since graduated to a regular feature. Go to Settings General tab and check off Enable Undo Send, and select how long the cancellation period is 5, 1. Then, whenever you send a message, youll see an Undo link in a yellow box floating at the top. If you click it in time, your message will not go out, and youll get a chance to re edit it before you try again, or delete it entirely. You can even undo discards, so when you delete a message in progress, you can bring it back and start again. Drag Messages or Labels. Gmail doesnt do folders. Instead, it has labels. Theyre functionally the same, albeit discomforting to those used to the whole folder paradigm. Its easy to drag a message from the inbox to a label and thus file it away, archived for future searches. But if that message in the inbox requires further attention, you can drag the label from the left sidebar to the message, as well It stays in the inbox, but is ready for future archiving. Preview in a Pane.