G-mail Tips & Tricks

In this post I am giving few Gmail tips and tricks. These tips and tricks can be used by general user of g-mail  for maintaining his/her emails properly and customizing layout properly. It may be used by developers as well. So here is first trick for developers,


1. If you want to test application which dose not allow to send or receive emails from same email address then you can use following trick, If your email address is abc@gmail.com and you are sending emails to abc+1@gmail.com, abc+2@gmail.com and so on then all emails will be forwarded to abc@gmail.com only. Instead of +1, +2 you can use +a, +b... and so on.

2.  Click settings button which is present at right upper corner. Then drop down menu will be displayed, in that menu again select "Settings". In that select "Labs" tab. Here are all crazy stuffs of g-mail. Here I am giving few of them,
1. SMS in chat:
It will allow you to send text messages (SMS) in chat.
2. Extra Emoji:
Here you will get extra smilly icons to use.
3. Unread message icon:
  It will show your unread messages at top just near to page title.
4. Google calender:
Very useful for saving important events with phone sync facility.
        5. Voice player:
                It will allow you to play voice mails.
In this way there are many facilities are provided in this "Labs" tab. You can check out all of them. Every feature is interesting.

3. Under the same "Settings" menu you have "Themes" option using which you can change theme of your email account. Try out these themes.

4. If you are switching from one account to another account then g-mail provides you facility to redirect all your mails to new account. You will find this option under settings in "Accounts and import". In this tab find out option "Import mail and contacts". In learn more section of this option you will get detailed information.

5. If you want to forward email coming from specific account then under "Settings" menu in "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab you will find that option. Under learn more section details are given.

6. You can create filter with different options for specific email addresses. For this under "Settings" menu select "Filter" tab. In that at the bottom there is option "Create a new filter". On click of this option you will get one form. fill up that form and move forward and filter will be created. Here you can do following things with mail from specific account.
     a. Directly add to archive by skipping inbox.
     b. Mark as read.
     c. Star it.
     d. You can apply specific label.
     e. You can directly forward it to specific email address.
     f. Even you can directly delete that email.
     g. And few more...

These are few interesting tips and tricks I will try to add more......Enjoy it.