Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently [...]

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A long requested feature of many Gmail users has been finally added to the popular webmail service. Gmail users can now merge duplicate contacts automatically, something that was not possible before. The only option of dealing with duplicate contacts before the recent changes was to manually merge selected contacts in the Gmail contact list. That [...]

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Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using? Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the three most popular web based email service providers Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. This question might have become insignificant in recent [...]

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If you visit your Google Mail account you can look at the footer of the mail index to see how many free space is still available for that account. The current free storage that most Gmail users currently get is 7839 Megabytes which should be enough for the majority of the email users. But there [...]

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The official Gmail blog has published five security tips to improve the security of a Gmail account. Email security should be one of the top priorities for a number of reasons but especially because other accounts are usually associated with an email account. Just think of all the websites and services that require users to [...]

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Xoopit, a company that was bought by Yahoo not long ago, developed email indexing and photo sharing technologies that have since then be integrated into Yahoo Mail. Gmail users, among others, were also able to make use of the interesting options that Xoopit provided through the use of the Xoopit for Gmail Firefox add-on. Yahoo [...]

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It is not that easy to check multiple Gmail accounts regularly. Gmail itself only allows one login per user. There are a handful of ways to circumvent that. Probably the most popular ones are using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird to check multiple Gmail accounts or add-ons or userscripts that allow [...]

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Google Voice is a relatively new Google service that can probably be best described as the hub for all phone numbers a user, family or company uses. The main benefit of a single-number approach is that callers will not have to think about which number to call to reach a person. Google Voice users have [...]

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Many Gmail users who tried to access the Gmail web interface were greeted with the error message “Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request” which meant that they were not able to log into their email account to check and send email messages. Google published several information on [...]

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