Archive for the ‘GMail’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/11
If you use Outlook to check and manage your email, you can easily use it to check your Gmail account as well. You can set up your Gmail account to allow you to synchronize email across multiple machines using email clients instead of a browser.
Oh: you need to lower your Gmail security for Outlook 2013 as the latter isn’t up to par on security. For that, follow similar steps like in “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/04
Source: [WayBack] How to move Gmail sub-label out of hiearchy – Web Applications Stack Exchange
- Hover over the label
- Click the down error
- Choose Edit
- Change the nesting
–jeroen
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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
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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
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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.
–jeroen
via: Some Imporatant URLs you should know as a Google User – I am Programmer.
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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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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
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30
Correction to the lifehacker.com post: only || works for OR condition.
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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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:
and:
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