Good Things about Gmail

This is the first query plenty of people ask when they are offered an invitation to Gmail. Turns out, there is plenty of great things about Gmail. For a free electronic mail service, it may even be the best out there.

More than of the Lifehacker editors had gotten used to keeping Gmail & Lifehacker's Google Apps e mail open in browser tabs, clicking over when a new message hit the title bar. With the just-launched Google Desktop Gadget, though, all the basic actions of emails read, star, label, delete, respond can fit in to a corner of your desktop. If you are nice with Gmail's keyboard shortcuts, the gadget works with those, , & can be opened in multiple instances for different accounts.

Gmail spam filters block 99% of the spam that usually makes it to your inbox. Although Outlook 2007 had a lovely spam filter, I still usually got around two or three emails a week sneaking in to my inbox not with Gmail.

You can set up filters and labels to keep your Inbox organised and clutter free.It's a speedy, simple search function which means you will never lose an e-mail again. The search is as speedy a traditional google search which is ace.

Forwarding Selective Emails Automatically Using Filter

If you don’t want to forward all the mails, then you can forward particular mails by creating filter.

• Click on “Settings” link


• Click on “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab


• Click on “Create a new filter”


• Set the filter criteria (for example, emails only from John Smith), and in the next step specify the email id to where the mail should be forwarded.

 

Gmail finally becomes usable if you have a slow or unreliable network connection. Enable the "flaky connection mode" and Gmail will cache your messages. "In flaky connection mode, you access the mail that's stored locally on your computer, regardless of your connection status. This makes it much faster to read and send mail, which is nice when you're on a slow or flaky connection. Your account will continue to sync in the background when it's able to do so, with no disruption to your experience."