Category: Gmail

How to Automatically Mark SPAM as Read in Gmail

A closer look into Gmail search semantics revealed that I could simply use the keywords “in:spam” to refer to the all messages under my SPAM label.

Knowing this, I set up a filter to automatically mark all new SPAM messages as Read within Gmail.

I have chosen to do this as I don’t want to see when a new SPAM message arrives and be tempted to check if it is legitimate. I find that Gmail’s SPAM filter is nearly 100% accurate so not constantly checking the SPAM label improves my productivity. But this is subjective and this operation or method may not be suitable for your related needs.

April 25, 2022

How to Email Large Files with Gmail, Google Drive

Email, Gmail, Google, Microsoft, Technology Support, Windows

Google’s Gmail email file attachment limit is 25MB. If your email file attachment exceeds 25MB, it will be uploaded to your Google Drive and linked to from within the email.

Assuming your Google Drive is empty, you can upload an attachment that is nearly 15GB! That’s Gigabytes in case you missed it.

Upon sending your email you are prompted to select your sharing preferences. Note that you can also use your Google Drive account to send file attachments that are under the 25MB attachment file size limit. This can be handy in case you want to share the same file with multiple contacts.

October 5, 2020

How to Whitelist a Contact in Gmail

Email, Gmail, Google, Technology Support

In this article I cover how to whitelist an email contact or entire domain within Gmail. This is accomplished by creating a Gmail filter under the “Filters and Blocked Addresses” available under “Settings“.

Google Gmail’s Spam detection feature works very well but sometimes requires a bit of fine tuning. For example, if you keep having messages from a particular sender delivered to your Spam folder you can create a filter to “Never send it to Spam” again. This effectively is an email whitelist feature within Gmail but is achieved by creating email filters.

Within your Gmail account, click on the gear icon located at the top right corner of your screen which will open your Gmail Settings.

September 20, 2020

How to Remove Google Meet from Gmail

Email, Gmail, Google, Technology Support

Currently there is no way to remove Google Meet from your Gmail display within a browser. However, a “Platinum Product Expert” (for what its worth) claims to have been informed by a Google Employee that Google is rolling out the option to hide / remove Google Meet from Gmail. No time frame has been provided.

In this article I cover using the Gmail Chat panel to at least minimize the Google Meet panel within Gmail.

May 29, 2020

New Confidential Mode in Gmail

Computer Security, Gmail, Google, Online Security, Security, Technology Support

Google’s Gmail service recently released a new feature called “Confidential Mode“. This allows you to set how long an email is available for viewing by your intended recipient(s).

As you can imagine, after the set expiration date, the email message is simply and automatically removed from the recipients inbox. Recipients will not have the option of forwarding this email, coping the email contents, or even printing it out.