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Archive for the ‘GMail’ Category

How to move Gmail sub-label out of hiearchy – Web Applications Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/04

Source: [WayBack] How to move Gmail sub-label out of hiearchy – Web Applications Stack Exchange

  1. Hover over the label
  2. Click the down error
  3. Choose Edit
  4. Change the nesting

–jeroen

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Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/16

If shared Google Calendars do not show on your iPad, iPod, iPhone or Mac, then go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect (sometimes called https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect) and set a tick mark in front of each calendar you want to appear there. Finally, refresh the calendar list on your iOS device and you are set.

–jeroen

Source: Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

Posted in Apple, GMail, Google, GoogleCalendar, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Power User | Leave a Comment »

“the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/13

If you ever get a “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” on an iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS version less than 7, then don’t waste time about entering captchas or fiddling with URLs: it took me 2 hours to find this is caused by GMail enforcing OAuth2 and blocking less secure apps mid 2014 after announcing it in April 2014.

Note that besides iOS < 7, these are also considered unsafe: the Mail-app on Windows Phone-version less than 8.1, some versions of desktop e-mail clients like (tadaaaaa!) Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Almost all searches for the error message lead you into trying to opening Safari on your iOS device visiting http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha or switching your servers from gmail.com to googlemail.com (or back), but these tricks don’t help.

What does help is (if you really insist on using a less secure app) to enable these less secure apps in your google account: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. Note this does not work when you have 2-step verification enabled.

I came across this when donating my old iPad 1 devices and the people could not use it for GMail. Since the GMail app in iTunes doesn’t support iOS 5.1.1 any more basically the devices are now glorious photo frames.

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, GMail, Google, GoogleCalendar, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some Google URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21

Below a table with clickable links, details are in the Via at the end. I added some more beyond the 10 original ones.

# URL What
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1 https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail Get a new account
2 https://www.google.com/ads/preferences Manage advertisement profile
3 https://www.google.com/takeout Download your Google data (mail can take days!)
4 https://support.google.com/legal To file a complaint about using copyrighted or unpermissioned material
5 https://maps.google.com/locationhistory Shows where your devices have been
6 https://history.google.com All your searches
7 https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive Prevent extended inactivity, Google doesn’t delete your account after 9 months.
8 https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity When you suspect account abuse
9 https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions Set permissions of apps and sites relating to your account
10 https://admin.google.com/example.org/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset Apps users: reset admin account by adding a CNAME to the DNS
11 https://plus.google.com G+ / Google Plus
12 https://plus.google.com/hangouts Google Hangouts
13 https://gmail.com GMail / Google Mail
14 https://contacts.google.com Google Contacts (note + button to add is hidden behind Hangouts pop-up also on the lower right)
15 https://calendar.google.com Calendar / Agenda
16 https://www.google.com/sync Sync Google Settings between various devices / applications
17 https://myaccount.google.com Account and privacy settings
18 https://myaccount.google.com/security Security settings like two-factor authentication (2-step signin)
19 https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount Check if your security settings (recovery phone, recovery email, security question) are still up to date.
20 https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup/1 Setting your privacy
21 https://wallet.google.com Manage Wallet
22 https://play.google.com Google Play Store and settings
23 https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager Where is your Android device
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–jeroen

via: Some Imporatant URLs you should know as a Google User – I am Programmer.

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Cleaning out gmail large attachments

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27

I figured that both gmail and photos take up the largest parts of my Google storage, so I did some cleaning.

You can figure out which part of your Google storage is used by email using https://www.google.com/settings/storage

Still people send huge BMP screenshots to me (probably Microsoft will never learn that pasting clipboard screenshots can be done just as well using PNG format?), so I started searching for mails with large attachments that GMail introduced a while ago:

older_than:1y size:10m

This will include mails of 10 megabyte and larger (so size is a minimum size, not an exact size) that are older than one year.

Then I deleted irrelevant mails notifying the people they should have converted their BMP files to PNG as they take up lots of space on their end as well.

Then storage didn’t decrease, as the messages were still in the trash:

in:trash

Luckily from there, you can empty the trash from there.

–jeroen

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The size and distribution of the data over your Google Drive storage

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/10

Drive storage is at https://www.google.com/settings/storage

–jeroen

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, GMail, Google, GoogleDrive, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

How To Work with Google Reference List: all Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place – via Denis Labelle

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/30

All Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place: How To Work with Google Reference List I. by Dennis Labelle.

–jeroen

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, GMail, Google, Google Analytics, Google Apps, GoogleAuthenticator, GoogleBookmarks, GoogleCalendar, GoogleContacts, GoogleDocs, GoogleDrive, GoogleFlights, GoogleGroups, GoogleHangouts, GoogleMaps, GoogleReader, GoogleSearch, GoogleTranslate, GoogleVoice, Hangouts, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

#lifehacker – Gmail search operators work in filters, too including OR condition: ||

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30

Correction to the lifehacker.com post: only || works for OR condition.

  • Works:
    • BTW || omzetbelasting
  • Fails:
    • BTW or omzetbelasting

Corrected quote:

By default Google ANDs all data that you put into the filter fields. To use an OR condition all you have to do is put || between two strings (you can not just use OR).

–jeroen

via Gmail search operators work in filters, too.

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Inbox by GMail: interesting approach!

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/14

Interesting, especially after experimenting with it for a few weeks. Most of it is great, still missing a few features (like multiple labels per message, and great keyboard shortcut support: now it’s very basic).

So read this that I got via Kristian Köhntopp:

Today, we release Inbox by Gmail – It’s been my main project since I joined Google. This ends the first chapter of a longer story!http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html

and:
Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in GMail, Google, Power User | 5 Comments »

GMail: add CC/BCC field in Compose/Reply using keyboard

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/03

Ever wondered how to add a CC or BCC address during a compose or reply using GMail without using the mouse?

Me too, and I’m glad to have found this online in the Keyboard shortcuts – Gmail Help: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in GMail, Google, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User | 2 Comments »