Smart Hacking: Gmail Tips

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Easily Backup Files to GMail with a click

Very long ago, I found GMail Drive shell extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. Today I found a way where you can easily send any files to your GMail with a click. It doesn’t create any virtual filesystem where you can manage the files that you uploaded to GMail. This can only send.

Send To GMail, is a freeware that can do that. Just right click and send any file to GMail. Of course you’ll need a GMail account in order to use this freeware.

So far this freeware only has 1 limitations that is it uses port 465 (GMail SMTP) to send emails, so in case it’s not open in your firewall it should be open (will be updated in future to use port 25). Port 465 is not a standard SMTP port. So if you couldn’t send any files to your GMail, perhaps your company’s firewall is blocking port 465.

[ Download Send To GMail | Official Website ]

Keep Your Important Emails Separate with Gmail Priority Inbox

This is guest post by Aks, who blogs at DevilMustCry.com, You can also write for TechMaish, Read Guest Blogging.

Bloggers have to engage in several social networking activities and have to subscribe to many websites. In this condition they get a lot of emails daily in their mailbox. So all emails either important mails or less important mails are mixed. Suppose we are in hurry and we want to check only our very important mails but those important mails are dispersed in less important mails then you have to read all mails to find out important.

Gmail priority Inbox

Now gmail offers its new feature of priority inbox. With this feature you can categorize your emails ( i am not talking about spam mails ). You can mark any mail as important and mark any as less important and your priority inbox will only receive important mail.Though it is other matter that all your emails will become safe but they will be shown below the priority inbox.Priority inbox will show your important mails ( marked by you ) at the top of your mailbox.

How to Use priority Inbox

First of all you have to activate this feature by going in gmail settings.

When you will see the priority inbox option in settings you have to select the option show priority inbox.Here you can also set more options such as number of important emails shown in priority inbox and how many emails should be shown in priority inbox etc.After configuring all options click on save changes.

Now in Inbox

Now your inbox will be divided into three parts priority inbox on top,starred at middle and everything else on bottom.You can mark any received mail as important or less important. Mails those will be marked as important will be shown in priority inbox.

Besides it you can also see the regular version of inbox

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Gmail Desktop Notification to Get New Mail and Chat Notifications

A few weeks ago gmail introduced gmail priority inbox feature. A useful feature for those who want to separate there important messages and keep less important messages aside.

Gmail introduced another useful feature “Desktop Notification” which allows you to get new mail and chat notifications whenever a new mail and chat comes to your gmail account.

This feature is currently available for Google Chrome users only and soon it will be available for all popular webbrowsers.

How to Enable Desktop Notification in Chrome?

1. Click on “Settings” button located at top right side of your inbox.

2. Click on “Priorty Inbox” tab and scroll down.

3. Tick both “Chat Notification ON” and “New Mail Notification ON” option to get notifications.

Hope gmail will soon enable this feautre on firefox and other popular web browser. Although there are unofficial tricks available through which you can get notifications for new mails. However official features are always safe and secure.
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How to Find IP Address of Your Gmail Sender

Do you want to track the details of someone sending mails to your Gmail account? Here is a simple way to track the IP of the mails which hits your Gmail Inbox, use the IP and find the further details of the sender.

How to Find IP Address of Gmail Sender?

1. When you open the e-mail you could see a small down arrow button next to Reply button. Just click that to get some options listed.

2. Click the option Show Original which is the second from the bottom. A pop up will open in a new tab/window with some encoding information.

3. Take a look at the image present below and then read the next line. Huh, here is the IP of the sender in the first line of the highlighted part.

4. Go to any websites that shows the details of an IP and find out who is sending the mail. There are many websites which provides the service, just google it.

For Example you can use cqcounter.com/whois

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Automatically Forward All Mails From One Gmail Account to Another Gmail

This is a very difficult task for all bloggers to login to one gmail account and then log out and login to another account. This can waste your precious time, because every gmail account is associated with your important activity and you have to check all accounts for new mails. But there is no need to worry about this, because there is a super duper solution for this problem. You can merge all gmail accounts with one gmail account.

It means that if you are using 5 gmail accounts and you want to receive all emails in one gmail account. Then you can forward all emails from gmail 1, gmail 2, gmail 3 and gmail 4 to your gmail 5 account. Then there is need to login to all accounts, because you can receive all mails in your gmal 5 account. This is very useful for those who are using multiple gmail accounts.

How to Automatically Forward Mails from One Gmail to Another Gmail Account

1. Login to your Primary Gmail account (Primary means where you want to receive mails from other gmail accounts.)

2. Click on “Setting” button located at the top right side of your account.

3. Select “Accounts and Import” button and then click on “Send mail from another address”.

4. Now you will see another window. Where you have to enter the email address of your 2nd gmail account.
Enter your 2nd emails address in the “Email Address” box and click on “Next Step” button.

5. After the 4th step, you will see another window, where you have to click on “Send Verification” button. Just click on the button to verify that the email address you entered is correct. You can see in below image.