Dodgy Email Of The Week

This weeks dodgy email is supposed to be from paypal telling me that my account has been closed and encouraging me to click the links given and give over my personal information. This is a […]

Dodgy Email Of The Week

This weeks dodgy email belongs to a supposed financial institution. Gmail has picked this up as a suspect email and you should definately not click any links and should just delete it.

There Is A Whole New Look To Gmail

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How Do I Get My Current Email To Go To Gmail

So you have a gmail account now and want your current emails to go to gmail , what do you do? If you have a current email address such as billsmith@bigpond.com you need to log […]

Remove On Behalf Of When Sending Email Through Gmail

So you have a Gmail address and you have a domain address as well and you want to send your domain email address without the " on behalf of " message that recipients see when sending emails through Gmail.

Gmail does allow you to use your own domain to send messages but it means delving into the settings in Gmail.

Open the settings section in Gmail which is in the top right hand side of Gmail

Now click on the accounts tab so you can see the email addresses associated with your account

Now you will see you email addresses in the Send mail as section

Click on the edit info for the domain email address

Then click on next step

Choose send through SMTP servers

You will need to contact your domain host to get the correct SMTP server information and explain to them what you are trying to do.

This information will vary depending on your domain name host

You will have a choice of 3 ports to use , choose the one that works for you, and enter your domain password ( not your Gmail password) as your emails are being relayed through your domain host.

Once you have clicked on save changes it will test what you have entered and if it is incorrect will give you a message that it is taking Gmail too long to respond or that the user name /password is incorrect. That means you have not entered the correct information.

Once you have entered the correct settings in the accounts section you will see the following

Route Your Current E Mail Provider Through Gmail

Setup your Gmail account on your current computer and make it an IMAP account

Here are the instructions from Google depending on the email client ( eg outlook,windows live mail,apple mail) you currently use.

E Mail setup instructions for G Mail

Pay particular attention to the advanced settings for the ports

Redirect your current email to Gmail through your isp

This means logging onto for example Bigpond or Adam and redirecting your email address to your Gmail address

You will now have 2 email accounts on your computer your current one and your Gmail

Setup your Gmail account to match the folders for your current account , folders are labels in Gmail

When this is done , go to the folders in your current email account select all the emails in the folder ( ctrlA) and drag them to the corresponding label ( folder ) in Gmail

You can also highlight them all and ( Ctrl C ) and copy them to the label

You will then have moved all your emails to Gmail

Gmail – IMAP Make Sure You Explain

I recently set up a Gmail account for a business and because they are running multiple computers I set them up with IMAP settings for their G Mail account.
The advantage of using IMAP is that you can check your mail from multiple computers and your email will always be in sync.
Your messages will stay on the server until you decide whether you will download them or not to your local hard drive.
However if you delete a message from one computer you will delete them from all computers.
Your mail accounts are now designed to be " mirror images " across all your computers.

Here is the Google explanation.

A two-way communication path (IMAP). Unlike with POP, your devices talk back to our servers and sync your changes automatically with IMAP. When you sign in to your Gmail account in a web browser, actions you've taken on your email client or mobile device (like putting a message in a 'work' folder) will also appear in Gmail (your message will already have a 'work' label on it). This all happens automatically once you set up IMAP, so you don't have to read or sort all your mail twice. This is really helpful when accessing Gmail from multiple devices.

My
point , well after setting up the account and explaining the above they
went into one computer deleted all their messages as they thought they
would have them on the other machines.