I would like to share with you the 2 hidden facts of gmail, which you can use to your advantage in filtering various emails

First Fact : The plus(+)advantage

1. For example your email id is myname@gmail.com.
2. You need to give an email id for your banking information.
3. Normally you would give myname@gmail.com and then once you receive an email, you might apply a filter.
4. Now you can simply give your email id as myname+bank@gmail.com.
5. Similarly you can use any number of names by appending a "+" sign followed by the name.

Second fact: The dot(.) advantage

1. Again taking the same email id myname@gmail.com
2. You can add as many dots(.) in your email as you want
3. You can give your email id as my.name@gmail.com and the email will come to you
4. Or you can simply write it as my.n.am.e@gmail.com

Google has intorduced Gmail labs that helps you decide the way you use your email. They have added some very cool features and some very basic features in their labs. The following are the 13 things they've added to their labs. You can click on the settings links and then click on the labs tab to enable some these cool basic features.

1. Quick Links
• Adds a box to the left column that gives you 1-click access to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. You can use it for saving frequent searches, important individual messages and more.
2. Superstars
• Adds additional star icons. After enabling this feature, you can choose which icons you wish to use in the "General" Settings page. This I think is the best feature of the Labs
  
3. Pictures in chat
• See the pictures of your friends in chat.
4. Fixed width font
• See you email in a fixed font and size
  
5. Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Customize your keyboard shortcuts. A good feature.
  
6. Mouse gestures
• Use your mouse to navigate with gestures. Hold right-click and move the mouse to the left to go to a previous conversation, move it to the right to go to the next conversation, and move up to go back to the Inbox view. Works best on Windows.
7. Signature tweaks
• Places your signature before the quoted text in a reply, and removes the "--" line that appears before signatures. Can't use this and the "Random signature" Labs feature at the same time.
8. Random signature
• Allows you to send random quotes, in your signature. This cannot be used in sync with signature tweaks.
  
9. Custom date formats
• you can use a 24-hour clock (14:57) or show dates with the day first (31/12/07).
10. Muzzle
• This feature saves screen space by hiding the status message of your friends. This is a good feature.
11. Old Snakey
• That old snake game. This is just a "Overweight feature". If you wanna play a game, play a better one on a gaming website. This feature I think is unnecessary, so i call it overweight, or excess fat.
  
12. Email Addict
• Gives you a break time by simply putting your gmail account on standby. By doing this you become invisible to your friends.
  
13. Hide Unread Counts
• Hides the unread counts from your inbox and labels
  

Source: Gmail

Today we all have our account on gmail since it it gives us a good amount of space for virtually never having the need to delete our emails. Here is simple and swift set of steps that allows to import all old email to Gmail

Setup procedure

Step 1: Tell Gmail the way to retrieve your mail from you old account using POP.
Step 2: Go to Settings > Accounts > Get mail from other accounts > Add another mail account.

Step 3: A new window will pop-up asking you for the email address you're going to import mail from.

Step4: Fill this and then click on "Next Step."

Step 5:validate with "Add Account" and select "Yes, I want to be able to send mail as youremail@gmail.com."

Send email form your old email addresses

you can set up a custom "From:" by going to
Settings > Accounts > Send mail as: > Add another email address.

Click on "Next Step" and then "Send Verification." You'll receive an email with instructions on how to validate your old address. Once it's set up, you can select this address in the "From" field when replying or forwarding.

Note:It might take a while for Gmail to fetch everything, but the fibal result is definitely worthwhile.

I would like to share with you the 2 hidden facts of gmail, which you can use to your advantage in filtering various emails

First Fact : The plus(+)advantage

1. For example your email id is myname@gmail.com.
2. You need to give an email id for your banking information.
3. Normally you would give myname@gmail.com and then once you receive an email, you might apply a filter.
4. Now you can simply give your email id as myname+bank@gmail.com.
5. Similarly you can use any number of names by appending a "+" sign followed by the name.

Second fact: The dot(.) advantage

1. Again taking the same email id myname@gmail.com
2. You can add as many dots(.) in your email as you want
3. You can give your email id as my.name@gmail.com and the email will come to you
4. Or you can simply write it as my.n.am.e@gmail.com

If a genie granted you a wish, would "The ability to access other people's Gmail accounts" be it? Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi from Kuwait wasn't visited by a genie, but he was granted access to Gmail accounts that were not his -- for a considerable period of time at that!

The goof-up began last weekend and only stopped on Wednesday. As it happened, Al-Shalabi was incessantly trying to access his Gmail, and he just wasn't able to. It's not clear whether entering his own username and password -- or random ones -- allowed him access to other Gmail accounts. But as he reported to News.com, he got a peek into the private information of over 30 Gmail users.
The problem apparently occurred only over Al-Shalabi's ISP and with Gmail accounts; it didn't work with Hotmail accounts, for example. Having heard the news, a Gmail user in Sri Lanka reported a similar experience.

Acknowledging the problem, a Google spokesman said the goof-up had occurred in Kuwait because of a server caching problem the ISP was facing. He said Google was in contact with the ISP in question in order to find a solution. It's not known whether other Google sites were also affected by the ISP's problem, and if so, to what extent.

This is certainly a one-off incident, and we're certainly not trying to say you should switch away from Gmail. What's to be learnt is that the system isn't foolproof, and that it's possible for your mail to become accessible to others -- which, we bet, most of you would have thought impossible (unless your password is "abc123" and someone guessed it, in which case you deserve it).

If you're the really paranoid kind, and this bit of news has shaken you more than a bit, you might consider encrypting sensitive mails (such as those in which you call your boss an unfortunate accident of evolution) using a free service such as Hushmail.

Source:techtree.com