Google launched its Gmail service over a decade ago. Due to its vast features and user-friendly interface, the number of users is increasing and its number has exceeded Billions. Since its launch, a lot of features have been added, from its 2-step verification to creating a filter while sending email.
I think most of its users only know how to send an email along with some attachments, but rather than there are a lot of features that are secrets to them and they need to know.
So I have summed up the best Gmail tips and tricks, even secrets and hacks.
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Best Gmail Tips and Tricks You Need to Know:
Is someone also reading My Emails?
If you have the suspicion that someone else is also reading your emails, then there is a way to find out when emails are read by anyone, just check “your last account activity.”
>in the inbox, just scroll down to the bottom and in the bottom right corner, in the text you will see “last account activity: X minutes ago”, click “Details” and Gmail will reveal exactly when each IP address access your Gmail address, including which device or operating system used.
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Undo Send Gmail emails:
You have the chance you send emails, or have cc or bcc, and then soon think that you should not send this email, so you need not worry because Gmail has come up with a feature to undo sent emails, just
>click gear icon at the top right corner, under the “Labs Tab”, enable “Undo Send”, so you have done.
Delete Large Emails at once:
Gmail has come up with 15 GB of free space for both an email account, Google Drive, and for Google Plus account. If you are a regular Gmail user, then u can easily see the bar line indicating the storage space. So, from a lot of emails, it is a little difficult to sort out which email has an attachment with large files, but don’t worry, just
>search “size:[x number]m” and the results are displayed in all emails greater than the x number of megabytes, so hold the Shift key while selecting multiple emails and send them to trash by saving a lot of time.
Send Forbidden Files:
Gmail has a lot of security features while sending and receiving files. You can not send a file extension.EXE not even by direct attachment, but there is a way to send. Just send them by using Google Drive, another way is to paste a link of that file in an email and send it.
Import mails and Contacts from other email accounts:
It is also very important to import mail and contacts from other email accounts or email servers. It is also very easy:
> setting tab (gear icon at the right) > Accounts and import Tab> Import mails and contacts click on this and follow the instructions to import mails and contacts from Yahoo, Hotmail, and another mail server, it is very helpful Gmail trick to import mail addresses and contacts to your new Gmail account.
So you have come up with some most helpful Gmail tips and tricks, I hope you will find them to operate your Gmail account easily.