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How to enable Gmail desktop notifications

September 29, 2020 by Satyapriya

Gmail is the most powerful and useful email service from the search engine giant Google. It is popular because of its various features and user-friendly nature.

Gmail leads in the competition of the mail services. Many people might not be aware of the desktop notifications feature in it. It is the feature where the users will be notified whenever a new email arrives.

Here in this article, I am going to show you the process of setting up the notifications for email which will send you notifications no matter what you are doing on the PC whether browsing the internet, watching videos, pictures, you are not going to miss anything important after enabling this feature.

To start with this thing, you must be logged in into your Gmail account.
There will be a gear icon available on the top right corner of the screen, click on it and you will find the Settings option, click on it.
You will be taken to a new page, there you have to scroll down to the Desktop Notifications option
Over there you will find three options and select according to your choice, I suggest to choose the first option “New email notification on”
Now click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

That is it you are done with the setup and using these simple steps you can enjoy the notifications feature which will alert you when a new mail arrives.

How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

September 21, 2020 by Satyapriya

Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
Google will load the page again after saving the settings
Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.

How to sign-in to multiple Gmail accounts at once

September 12, 2020 by Satyapriya

Many of us may have been using multiple accounts of Gmail. There may be a need to do that as well, a mail for official reasons, and another one for personal use. But with this procedure what becomes difficult is signing in with all the emails we have separately to check the accounts, what if we are able to check all the accounts at once. Sounds great right! Yes, we can actually do that.

You don’t have to log out of one Gmail account to check the inbox of the other account. And the process to sign in with multiple Gmail accounts is pretty simple and explained in this piece of article. Just go through this.

This process actually is very simple and interesting as well as you just have to sign in with anyone of your login credentials of anyone Gmail account and the other ones will automatically be logged in. If you apply Gmail delegation to all your accounts, then you can check all your emails in a single inbox.

To do that just login into any of your Gmail accounts that you wish to include the inbox in the primary mail and go to Settings>Accounts>Grant Access to your account and here you just have to add your primary Gmail Id through which you would like to view the emails regularly. And as a final step, you have to click on the confirmation link sent to your primary mail. The verification process will take up to 30 minutes. Follow the same process to include the other emails ids as well. And you will then be able to access all the emails from you multiple Gmail accounts at a single place and through a single login.

How to block someone in Gmail

September 8, 2020 by Satyapriya

We are very much connected with the technology and as it helps us to connect with our personal and professional contacts every day, we make use of it a lot. We all may be thinking that the media services have the best features that can protect our privacy from the others, yes, it is true, but the mail services don’t lack behind. Especially the search engine giant’s most popular email service Gmail is no less in providing its users with the most useful features.

If you feel someone is constantly irritating you with emails or if you feel to stop someone from sending you emails and remove from your circles, then it can be possible. Very fewer people know about this, but it is possible. There are simple three steps for blocking someone on Gmail.

First of all, login I to your Gmail account using your login credentials.
Now open the mail from the particular person whom you want to block
You can see a drop down arrow button next to the reply icon to the right most of the sender’s name, just click on it
Now from the drop down menu, click Block followed by username option
Then you will see a confirmation window popping, just click block to confirm

That is it you are done with the process, now you won’t find those annoying emails in your inbox.

How To Take The Backup Of Your Emails From Gmail

August 28, 2020 by Satyapriya

Gmail, the most used and highly popular email client as we all know. There are also quite a few other alternative mailing applications that give tough competition to Google in terms of email management and flexibility. The fact is that all our first email ids are actually Gmail. But there is no issue if you have decided to move from Gmail to some other email client. Then you might want to save a backup of Gmail, then here are the steps that you need to go through.

Steps To Backup Of Gmail

Begin by opening the web browser and head over to google.com. Make sure you are logged in into your Gmail. Now, scroll down to the Account Storage section to check how much storage is left on your Google Account.
Then you can click on Manage your data & personalisation option located under Privacy & personalisation.
After that, scroll down and click on Download your data, here you may be shown two options: export or delete. Choose export.
Then you will be redirected to the Google Takeout page. There, you should see a long list of Google Services from which you can download the preferred data. You can notice all the options selected by default. As we only want to back up emails, deselect all.
Then, scroll down to find the Mail option and then check the box for it. And click on next.
Here, you will have the option to export a copy of the content in your Google Account to back it up. Along with that, there is also an option to use the backup with a service outside of Google.
Google even allows you to choose the file type, frequency, and destination as well.

Thus, you can have all your data for your reference by taking the backup of Gmail if you ever