Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company’s official YouTube video channel that introduced a new Gmail interface. The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube. The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features. This [...]

Categories: Email, Google

When you read or reply to emails in Google’s mail service Gmail, you see the email addresses and contact names of the recipients and senders. But that’s it. Sometimes you may want to find out more about a person on Gmail, for instance before you reply to an email. While you could do that by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox, Google Chrome

I have to admit that I barely use the Google Mail web interface, as I’m handling all emails in the Thunderbird desktop email client. Sometimes however I have to open the Gmail website, for instance if I’m not at my home computer but need to check or send emails. One of the things that I [...]

Categories: Email

Google back in 2010 introduced a call phones from Gmail feature in the United States which allowed Google Mail users to use their computer’s microphone and speakers to make calls for free to the US and Canada, and for a low rate to other supported countries. Google has now announced on the official Google blog [...]

Categories: Email, Google

I remember reading about attackers a while ago that broke into Gmail account of webmasters. Instead of doing all kinds of things there they simply added mail forwarding filters to the account. Why did they do that? To suppress email notifications of domain transfers. Registrars send an email to the registered owner if a domain [...]

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When I was working in tech support for a large German financial corporation I regularly had to deal with support requests by customers who received phishing emails. It took a lot to convince the majority of customers that those phishing emails were not sent by the company, but by criminals. Especially fake email addresses were [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Gmail, like any other modern email service, supports file attachments that are then send with the email to the recipient of the email. File attachments need to be uploaded and match certain criteria before they are attached, or added, to the email. It is for instance not possible to send executables directly via Gmail. Users [...]

Categories: Email

Up until today I have never tried to send an executable file via Google’s email service. When I tried that today, it looked at first as if it was not a problem. The file was uploading fine and showing up under attachments in the send message window. When I tried to send the email however, [...]

Categories: Email, Google

One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. If you move away, the operation breaks and you have to start all over again. Background Send is a new Google Mail feature [...]

Categories: Email, Google