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Finding the date of creation of your Google account

May 26, 2017 by Satyapriya

Have you ever wanted to know about the date of creation of your Google account? If so, have you ever thought of the procedure? If you ever want to restore your account in the future, then Google will ask some questions and one of them will be the date of creation of your Gmail.

So, it is very important to make a note of Google account creation.

The simple and easy way to know the account creation date is just checking out the date in your welcome message from Google. You can find the message in your inbox. But in case if you have deleted this mail, then don’t worry here are some steps you can follow in order to find your account creation date.

Open your Gmail account settings

Then go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab and there under the POP download option, you can see the date in the format of mm/dd/yy which your account creation date.

In the above screenshot, you can observe the highlighted area, where you can see the date is the creation date of my Gmail account. In the same way, you can also keep a note of the creation date of your account.

How to sign-in to multiple Gmail accounts at once

April 5, 2017 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.

Track the emails you sent using Gmail

February 21, 2017 by Satyapriya

Tracking the sent messages have become the most popular feature in many of the messaging platforms and how would it be if this feature also exist for emails. Yes, it actually does, but not as an inbuilt feature in Gmail, but it is available as an extension in the chrome web store. And that extension is called the Mailtrack.

After you add the extension and installed it, it will ask for quite a few permissions just allow them.

From then it will show you tick marks for the emails that had been delivered and tricks with colour for the emails that have been read.

Thus using this simple browser extension one can easily track emails and their delivery status like they do for the messages in WhatsApp and various other messaging platforms.

Mailtrack is thus one of the best extensions that can be used for tracking emails in Gmail.

How to send encrypted emails using Gmail

January 22, 2017 by Satyapriya

We would all have known about encrypted messages. The various popular messaging applications like WhatsApp and Facebook have introduced this encryption feature quite a long ago. But have you ever thought or wondered about having such a thing for emails? yes of course, it will be very much useful and safe for all those people who exchange sensitive information over emails.

Gmail, the most used mailing service needs this feature. As this service is not available as an inbuilt feature, one needs to add the extension from Chrome browser.

In the chrome browser’s web store search for the extension Secure mail for Gmail

And add this extension to your chrome browser.

This extension lets the user send encrypted emails where the data will be hundred percent safe.

Then just open your Gmail account and sign in using your mail id and password. Just beside the compose mail button, you will find another option with lock symbol in it, click on it and a box will open, type your message and enter receiver’s details and click on send. Now it will ask you to enter the encryption password which you need to enter and share with the receiver later as he/she needs this password to open that email received. That is it, you can now very easily send encrypted emails using secure mail.

How to enable preview pane in your Gmail

January 11, 2017 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 preview pane feature in your Google account.

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 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.