Questions tagged [gmail]
Webmail service provided by Google. See WebApps.StackExchange.com first as that's where they most likely will be on topic unless using with a desktop client
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Delete just email attachments
I want to just delete email attachments.
Mainly from gmail accounts, but it would be nice from other accounts too like iCloud.
The idea is to delete de attachments while keeping the mail.
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How to download raw HTML from message on Google GMail?
I have an e-mail on GMail in HTML format. It is not attachment. The Google change few things before displaying it in the browser. How can I download this HTML without any processing?
P.S.
Looking ...
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When I create an email alias in Gmail does Gmail take ownership of the email server?
I'm trying to better understand the relationship between IMAP and Gmail aliases.
Below is a common scenario a lot of people are using to setup a custom email domain inside the Gmail web-client.
I ...
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Give Windows 10 access to calendar but not gmail
Is it possible to allow Windows 10 to sync the calendar with the Google Calendar while at the same time denying it access to email on GMail? If yes, how?
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Extension and 3rd party app access permissions for Dropbox
What level of access and permissions does Dropbox provide to following 3rd party extensions if a user chooses to integrate their Dropbox accounts with these:
Adobe Acrobat Reader,
Google Mail (gmail),...
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Adding Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook - can't connect to IMAP server
I am using Microsoft Outlook for Office 365 MSO - 32-bit (16.0.11328.20468) on Windows 10, and I would like to access my Gmail account from within Outlook.
I know this is an "old question", and I ...
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how to check verify security of google drive folders
I today uploaded some songs from my USB to my google drive.
That folder I created today morning and while the songs were being uploaded I got
an email which mentioned
foldername - Request for ...
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Why do some download links ask for Gmail login?
Recently I have clicked on download movie from a website, it has redirected me to my Gmail login and after I have finished logging into gmail, a download link is generated and I am able to download a ...
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Excel files downloaded from Gmail with no extension?
I downloaded a excel file from my gmail account attachment.
When I downloaded it, the file showing without ".xlsx or .xls" extensions.
I renamed it by adding ".xlsx" at the ending. and it works.
And ...
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My business email suddenly goes into spam with majority of people I email for the first time
The email address I use for business correspondence goes to the spam folder (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) for the majority of people that I email for the first time.
To be clear, I am not involved in any ...
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13.66 GB out of 15 Gb used in Gmail delete emails that consumed space [closed]
I have an old gmail account and I recently logged in I noticed it saying
https://one.google.com/u/0/storage?hl=en&utm_medium=web&utm_source=gmail&utm_campaign=manage_storage
how do I find ...
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eMailing list : each adress is confidential but anyone can "Reply All"
I am not sure I can explain properly because my English is not that good. So, I will use an example.
I, OP, want to contact several people. Let's have the sender (the OP), Alice and Bob.
OP emails ...
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Configure Gmail in Outlook for Office 365 MSO (Error: 0x800ccc92)
After setting up my email (POP) in Outlook, I have been receiving lots of pop-up notifications.
When I have decided to finally address this uncommon situation, I have noticed that there was an error ...
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Thunderbird: Moving mails to Local Folder and deleting them from IMAP
I am reaching the limit of my IMAP folder. With the idea of moving some of the largest emails to a local folder, I used Thunderbird's search function, found around 300 Inbox messages over 5MB, dragged ...
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Thunderbird fails gmail OAuth2 despite correct credentials
When trying to set up Gmail account using OAuth2 on fresh Thundirbird install I can't get properly authenticated despite providing correct credentials.
With help of the Thunderbird wizard I get all ...
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Spam Email from me to me
I have just received an email with the from address being the same as my own email address but Google has correctly classified it as spam and it went straight to my Spam folder.
The content of the ...
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How to filter an email type to prevent it from occupying even the spam folder? [closed]
I receive daily messages in my Gmail with the same subject: "Sales Boom".
Gmail correctly detects these messages as spam and sends them correctly to the spam folder.
Even so, I would like to know if ...
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How to have different mail servers for different users?
Currently we are running on an older mail service where each client uses IMAP and SMTP to connect for incoming and outgoing mail. This is not Exchanged-based - let's call it "old school" mail server ...
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Why Gmail shows "[Message clipped] View entire message" at the end of my emails?
I'm using Java to send emails but Gmail shows me "[Message clipped] View entire message" at the end of the message. My email is around 20 characters (English letters), plain text, and there is no ...
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GSSMO: Emails sent by delegate save to delegate's personal "Sent Items" folder
An quirk of G Suite's email delegation feature is that
items sent by a delegate via the Gmail web app are stored in the delegator's "Sent Items" folder, but
items sent by a delegate via G Suite Sync ...
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Why GMail is showing Bcc addresses?
Today I receive an answer from Tissot, with my surprise I noticed that the Bcc field is clearly visible to me, showing other supposedly hidden recipients:
Bcc recipient visible in a received email
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Setup catch-all email without G-Suite?
I'd like to setup a catch-all email for my domain-name. From what I understand I can do this in Gmail if I have G-Suite. But I don't need G-Suite, literally the only thing I need is a catch-all email ...
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Remove Gmail's Outbox from Mail in Windows 10
I am using Mail app in Windows 10 to sync with my Gmail account via IMAP. When I add the account, Mail automatically creates several folders like Inbox, Sent Mail, All Mail, Drafts, Trash, as well as ...
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How to configure my gmail account so that mail send by an app do not save the mail in the sent folder
I have an app that sends mails using a gmail account (gsuite) with app-passwords. Can I prevent the email to be saved in the sent folder?
So basically fire and forget.
Is it possible?
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Will Bcc work when emailing mms numbers?
I want to send the same message to multiple people with an "mms email"([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc). If I use Bcc, will it still put all these people in a group ...
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Emails directed to google-based mail server are disappearing into cyberspace
The set up
Using google suite to manage inbound/outbound emails. All MX records are configured properly for my domain.
Using google's web-based email client to send/receive emails
We get almost all ...
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Modify Gmail (IMAP/SMTP) settings in Outlook
I have Outlook configured to access a gmail account. Recently, it stopped syncing with a server error. Unfortunately, I see NO WAY to modify (or even view) the SMTP settings. If you go to account ...
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How to setup Outlook to use Gmail mailbox and multiple "From" addresses
I have a Gmail account and added multiple non-Gmail accounts to my Gmail.
On a Mac I could connect this Gmail to Mac Mail and setup Mail to allow different sent-to's (-> see great explanation: Sending ...
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How to use hashtags in Gmail?
I want to be able to use hashtags in Gmail - e.g. add #important in certain emails I send to myself or others, and be able to A) search on that specific tag and B) filter emails with that tag so that ...
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Postfix: how to stop postfix or Ubuntu sending emails to Gmail and getting a 421-4.7.0 error
I have an Linux server (Ubuntu) in which, while setting it up, I entered my gmail address. So now, each 5 or 6 minutes, gmail servers respond to my server with the following message (appearing in the ...
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Outlook tasks masked as completed (using gmail as mail server)?
When I used Outlook tasks and mark a task as "Completed", it disappears from the list. When I use the Tasks view "Completed", this is empty even though I have marked numerous tasks as complete. I also ...
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Is long-lived Gmail auth a security risk on a travel laptop?
I have a throwaway travel laptop with an encrypted drive and secure boot enabled (windows 10).
Gmail's default behavior seems to be to leave me logged in for days at a time.
If I lose my laptop, can ...
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Archive mail for multiple Gmail accounts
Sometimes my colleague and me both get the same email to solve a problemn
It happened multiple times that we both solved the problem, which is a complete waste.
To solve this I want the following:
If ...
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Make one Google account the default permanently (Firefox, Chrome)
There are related, but different, questions such as this one about setting the default account in Chrome. This question is about making that change permanent.
I use multiple Gmail accounts (me.1@...
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How does this email display part of its text selectively?
I get a daily email newsletter, and I noticed that in the Android Gmail app, below the sender and the subject, where usually one sees the first line of the email, there is a brief description that is ...
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In GMail, can I auto-forward emails between two accounts so I can view all my mail on both?
I realize this is probably a pretty uninformed question, but I'm not really sure how to search for it. My apologies if this is a duplicate or whatever. I don't use this site a lot, I'm a bit ...
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Replying to an email with a + extension
I sign up for accounts using “[email protected]” and this is all fine and good. I just want to know how to reply to emails using that custom extension rather than “[email protected]”
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Prevent Gmail from saving sent mail
I have created a Gmail account to be used for sending scans from my network printer.
Gmail obviously saves sent mail automatically as it should, but in this particular case, I would prefer this not ...
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SMTP protocol synchronization error in Exim4 when connecting from Gmail
I have a Exim 4.92 server running on a Debian machine, everything works fine. Now I want to send mails from Gmail through that Exim server, since Gmail needs an STMP server for alias addresses.
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Google Drive / Gmail Aliases - Professional vs. Non-professional
I have a personal gmail account which I use for thousands of personal accounts - for security, recovery, etc...
If an employer would like to collaborate with me via google docs, I would like to be ...
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Google Calendar Alerts have quit on Windows and Android
I'm getting email notifications, but no pop-ups on Windows-10 desktop (in Chrome), and nothing on my Android smart phone. I'm afraid to missing meetings now after relying on this feature.
My ...
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How to disable email forwarding to my gmail account
I no longer have access to the account from which email forwarding is set up.
But the emails continue to come to my original account and I could find no way to disable it.
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0x8007042b error when adding yahoo or gmail accounts to Windows 10 Mail and Calendar app
There's a similar thread from 2015 How to solve error 0x8007042b while connecting a Google account on Windows 10? here but none of the answers worked. The manual method of adding accounts doesn't work ...
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Automatically Mark As Read in MS Outlook 2013 when moving to specific Folder
I've recently created 'unified inbox' and 'unified sent items' folders in MS Outlook 2013. I set up 2 rules to move all my sent items (for Gmail and for AOL, respectively) to my 'unified sent items'...
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Automatic email aliases in Outlook
I know that with gmail accounts, you can add + and additional text to an email address to make a pseudo-alias. That is, [email protected] will be delivered to [email protected], and the extra tag ...
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How to hide email recipients without BCC/spam
Silly question, but I have emails that I want to send to several people at once. But I don't want the recipients to see who is included in the email, as the material is somewhat sensitive.
However, ...
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Emailing 13MB base64 creates extra 19MB .com
My daily backup script had to be changed to create base64 file instead of regular .tar.gz a while ago:
Filename64="$Filename".64
cat "$Filename" | base64 > "$Filename64"
echo -e "to: $EmailAddr\...
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Gmail and others recognize my emails as spam
I have mail set up on VPS. Everything checked 10x. Dns entries, testers, open blacklists etc. etc. and all my messages are sent to spam :(
Why?
Here are the results of online tests - it's look fine
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Gmail responding with "DSN: Service unavailable"
I have googled this widely :/ I have a Wordpress site, but the same happens from the command line. Sending a mail that ends up at the MX of:
mysite.com. 140 IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
Leads to ...
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How to troubleshoot sending email from Apple OS X command line (tcsh)
I am using the "sendmail" command in the syntax I've found on-line,
% echo "hello" | sendmail -f [email protected] -t [email protected]
and it gives no error but also no email gets sent. Where can I see the ...
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