How to Setup Gmail on an iPhone

Setting up Gmail on an iPhone isn't as simple as choosing the Gmail profile apple builds into your phone. A customized profile will provide you with the most flexibility and control over your mail and where it goes.

• Steps

1. Open Settings and choose Mail, Contacts, Calendars from the list
2. Delete your existing Gmail account if you added it via the automatic Gmail profile on the iPhone. You cannot simply edit the settings for that account, they will not save correctly.
3. Tap Add Account...
4. Choose Other from the list. This is probably the most important step.
5. Enter your name, address, password, and description for the account. Then tap Save in the upper right corner
6. Ensure the IMAP tab is selected (highlighted in blue)
7. Enter the following settings:
   
   
   • Under Incoming Mail Server
     
     
     • Host Name: imap.gmail.com
     • Username: Use your full Gmail address, like test@gmail.com
     • Password should be automatically filled in from the previous page
   • Outgoing Mail Server
     
     
     • Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
     • Username: Use your full Gmail address, like test@gmail.com
     • Password: Your Gmail password
8. Tap Save and your iPhone will verify your settings and return you to the Settings page.
9. Tap on your newly added account and then scroll down to choose "Advanced"
10. Select the Drafts Mailbox, from On the Server under [Gmail] choose Drafts
11. Select Sent Mail, from On My iPhone choose Sent. Gmail will automatically place a copy in your Gmail's sent messages folder. The iPhone does not need to try to do this manually
12. Select Deleted Mailbox.
    
    
    • To map the trash can button to delete messages: from On the Server under [Gmail] choose Trash
    • To map the trash can button to archive messages: from On the Server under [Gmail] choose All Mail
13. Change the Deleted Messages - Remove setting to Never. You do not want your iPhone to try and empty your trash, or delete your archive.
14. Check your mail so your iPhone can sync up all the boxes.

• Tips
  After mapping a folder to Drafts, Sent, or Trash, those folders will no longer appear in the All Folders listing. Instead, choose the item you mapped them to. This can be particularly confusing to always look in the "Trash" to view all of your mail.

• Warnings
  Test out your settings to ensure they are working correctly. Make sure that messages you trash on the iPhone still exist in the web interface for Gmail.

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How to Switch Email Address to Gmail

If you are ready to switch over to one of the top 10 email providers on the web, then here is how to do it.

• Steps

1. Go to Gmail and click on "Sign up for Gmail" in the bottom right corner.
2. Type in your first and last name, your desired login name, your desired password, security question, original email, and a word verification, then click "I accept. Create my account."
3. After your email account is set up, go back to your other one and email all of the people on your "buddy list". Anyone you know isn't going to get it, or doesn't check their email, send them a letter through snail mail, or call them. Make sure they all have the right address.
4. If possible, delete the email account for your old address.
5. In your GMail account, you can add contacts to your buddy list. This site will tell you how to do it with almost any email provider.
6. Now that you have your buddy list completed, you have to email all of them to re-tell them about your address.
7. Although GMail rarely gets spam, you may still want to take other measures to protect your address. To protect your email address from spam, follow the instructions here.

• Tips

1. Always make sure everyone you want to have your email has your Gmail address.
2. If you have important emails in your previous email account, forward them to you new Gmail account.

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How to Switch from Juno to Gmail

Gmail is potentially better than Juno, and to switch follow these easy steps.

• Steps

1. Create a Gmail account. (See wikihow's Get Gmail)
2. Forward all your Juno E-mail to your G-mail address.
3. Cancel your Juno account.
4. Start using your G-mail account!

• Warnings
  

1. You must agree to the G-mail agreement.
2. If you forget your password on G-mail you may not be able to get it back without a second e-mail address provided during registration to Gmail.

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How to Switch from Hotmail to Gmail

• Steps

Transfer your contacts

1. Export your contact information per the instructions on Hotmail.
2. Log into Gmail.
3. Click on "Contacts" in the left hand sidebar.
4. Select "Import Contacts" from the options.
5. Select the file on your Desktop using "Browse". It will import all your contacts.
6. Email all of your contacts and tell them your new address.
   
   
   • If you're signed up to any newsletters, you'll either have to check back to your hotmail account and click a link to change your e-mail address or just unsubscribe and subscribe again with your new e-mail address.

Transfer your messages

1. Send important e-mails you want to keep to your new address.
   
   
   • Bulk transfer of all your current and future email is made easy with IzyMail
   • Gmail now supports IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) so you can now transfer all your messages to gmail and maintain all the original header information such as date and sender etc. The following process works for Both free and premium hotmail accounts and ONLY with outlook 2003 or 2007. Microsoft does not allow hotmail connections to other mail clients. Simply follow the following steps:
2. Enable Imap in your Gmail account under Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > Enable IMAP > Save Settings
3. Connect to your windows live hotmail account with outlook 2003 or 2007 by downloading the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Windows Live Hotmail. This is available at the following link: Use a Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook You MUST have office 2003 or 2007, Outlook express will no longer connect to hotmail accounts and you must pass windows genuine software tests to download the plugin. the plugin acts like a kind of proprietary IMAP connection for Hotmail accounts only. All the steps to do this are available at the same link as above.
4. Connect your gmail account in the same Outlook client using the IMAP connection. Gmail's help files can be located at the following links Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007
5. Drag your messages from your hotmail account over to your gmail account, once you have both connections in Outlook. You can drag entire folders to the Gmail account's root and Outlook will automatically create new labels in gmail and add those labels to the messages in the folder. Gmail labels continue to be displayed as folders in outlook. folder names cannot have slashes (/, \) in them as Gmail uses these to denote label heirarchy rename your folders before dragging them to avoid mid transfer errors.

• Tips

1. http://blog.thefrog.net/2009/02/switching-from-hotmail-to-gmail.html offers a simple, risk-free and cost-free way to import Hotmail e-mails into GMail via POP3 (recently activated by Hotmail in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) without the need to pay (as per Izymail below).
2. This link http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=7ea31dc8-f412-4c7f-9d22-b76b653305be gives detailed instructions on how to transfer your email messages over from Hotmail to Gmail. It's not for the faint-hearted! If you make a mistake you will lose all information from both accounts!!
3. http://v3.izymail.com/gmailconfig.aspx provides an easier way to import all current and future Hotmail to Gmail without risk to lose messages.(Note : izymail is paid service)

• Warnings
  Hotmail will automatically close your account after 30 days of inactivity, so make sure everyone has the correct address! You may want to log in every so often to see if any email is straggling behind.

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There are many reasons to switch over to Gmail from AOL. AOL's internet is rather slow and the Instant Messaging feature can be accessed through the free AIM. Also you if you are already using the internet, you don't have to open up a new program to see your email.

• Steps

1. Visit the Gmail page. Gmail is free for everyone and you do not need another email address to sign up.
2. Set up your account. Enter the information requested and click I agree.
3. Read the help information about Gmail on the next page. If you are unfamiliar with Gmail the email you receive from the support team is very helpful.
4. Personalize your account. You can add a picture that will be viewed by Gmail friends or personalize your iGoogle Homepage for starters.
5. Notify people who email you at your old AOL account that your are changing to Gmail. Pick a user name that is similar or identical to your AOL user name so your friends and family will easily make the transition.
6. Receive email from your old account for a week or so. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page. Click Accounts along the top of the Settings box. Under Get mail from other accounts: click Add a mail account. Enter information and change your preferences, then add the email.
7. Remind people who continue to email your old address that you have changed it. You may have to call the person to get the message across.
8. Copy your contacts from AOL to Gmail:
   
   
   1. Export your address book in AOL's ldif format in AOL Communicator.
   2. Import your address book in text format in Thunderbird.
   3. Export your address book in CSV format in Thunderbird.
   4. Import you address book in CSV format in Gmail.
9. Enjoy Gmail!

• Tips

1. Alternatively, copy and paste your contacts directly from the AOL address book and email it to yourself at Gmail. Unfortunately you will not receive phone numbers or other information. You may have to add that information manually.
2. An alternative way is to go to http://beta.webmail.aol.com. Click on "Contacts" on the left hand side bar. Click "Export" (it's next to the 'find contacts' search bar). Export to a CSV, "comma-separated-value" file. Just import this in Gmail.

• Warnigs
  You may have problems as AOL's ldif is different from Thunderbird's one (e.g. the phone numbers won't be in Thunderbird and after in Gmail). This is avoidable as long as you are using AOL's Beta Mail Service.

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How to Use Outlook Express to Access Your Gmail Account Via Imap

Gmail is an online email program that allows you to send and receive email. IMAP is another way of accessing your mail, possibly more convenient that the old POP3.

• Steps

1. Configure IMAP in your Gmail account
2. Open Outlook Express and add a new account
3. Type in your Display name
4. Type in your FULL email address (including @gmail.com)
5. Choose IMAP access
6. When it asks you the IMAP server name, type in "imap.gmail.com" without quotes
7. When it asks you the SMTP server name, type in "smtp.gmail.com" without quotes
8. Your account name is not just "somebody" but "somebody@gmail.com"
9. Type your password
10. Go to your account properties
11. Select the 'Servers' tab
12. Tick 'My Outgoing Mail Server requires authentication'
13. Go to advanced
14. Under outgoing mail tick this requires a secure connection and type in port numer 465
15. Under incoming mail tick this requires a secure connection.
16. Click OK.
17. Your Done!

• Tips

If this isn't quite correct. Try Google's instructions

• Warnings

1. Make sure that your port numbers are typed in correctly
2. If you change your Gmail password. You will also need to change your server password on Outlook Express

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How to View the wikiHow Article of the Day from Your Gmail Account

Gmail is now offering the Web clips to some of their Gmail users where you can also add RSS feeds. eHow offers their "Article of the Day" feed and you can add this feed to your Gmail preferences easily to get the updated "How to" article fo the day.
Web clips was recently released to all Gmail account users.

• Steps

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click on the "Settings" link on the top right hand corner of the screen.
3. Click on "Web Clips" under the Mail Settings tab.
4. Click on "Add more clips" at the bottom of the screen, this will bring up a pop-up window.
5. Click on "Custom Clips" which is the tab on the far right.
6. Where it says Enter an RSS or Atom feed URL: type in the URL: http://www.wikihow.com/feed.rss and press "Add".
7. You're done!

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How to Use Plus Addressing in Gmail

A great way to filter incoming messages is to use plus-addressing in Gmail.

• Steps

1. Get a Gmail account.
2. Go to the external site you want to sign up for e.g. Facebook, Myspace, eBay or Amazon.
3. When asked to enter your e-mail address, add a suffix of a plus sign and the name of the service. Add this to the end of your name, but before the @ sign. For example: JoeSmith+Facebook@gmail.com
4. Create a label in Gmail.
5. Create a filter and enter the same e-mail address you just used in the "To:" field.
6. Choose to label all messages sent to that address.

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How to Add Addresses to Outlook Express Address Book

Here are three ways to add email contacts to the address book in Outlook Express.

• Steps

1. When you receive an email and want to add the sender's email address and name to your Address Book, right-click mouse on the sender's name in the header (From, Subject, Received line) of their email. Choose “Add sender to address book‿, and you're done. Open address book and check it out.
2. If you want to add a new email manually, open the address book, and click on , then choose .
3. Click the tab.
4. Fill in “First‿ & “Last‿ names in the appropriate boxes.
5. Type carefully the email address in the email address box.
6. Click , note: if it’s the only address for that contact, it will be the default (Main) address. Otherwise, you will have to select which one you want as the default address.
7. Click
8. When you receive an email address of another person written in an email, locate the email address.
9. Right click and choose
10. A window should open or open the address book and double click the new address, click the Name tab and overwrite the email address in the First Name box and input the last name in the Last Name box. The email address will be in the proper box.
11. Click

• Tips
  Here is how to remove the old address: Open your address book locate the unneeded address and click choose and .

• Warnings
  In the first example , if the sender does not have his or her name input properly in the header, it will not enter into the First and Last name box properly either, for example a nickname or just an email address. To rectify this double click the name you want to edit and in the window that opens click the "Name" tab and edit the information, click OK.

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How to Upload Anything Even .Zip Files Onto Google

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These are the instructions to upload, and possibly E-Mail programs and zip files to someone else on Google.

• Steps

Here's The Steps
To Upload Upload The File

1. Log into your google account.
2. Go to the top of the page, where you can see Web, Images, Maps, News, Shopping, Gmail, & more
3. Click on more
4. Click on Even more
5. 
   
   
   
   

   
   Click on Google Labs.
6. Scroll down to Google Page Creator and click on it.
7. 
   
   
   
   

   
   Go to Uploaded stuff.
8. Click on upload
9. Click Browse.
10. Choose the file you want to upload.
11. Click Ok.

//Google page creator is no more// consdier revising this page

To E-Mail A File

1. Navigate to Google Page Creator
2. Right-Click on the file you want.
3. Click "Copy shortcut" or "Copy link location", or something along those lines, depending on your browser.
4. Go to your E-Mail.
5. Paste the link
6. If Someone receives the E-Mail and clicks on the link, they will receive the file.

• Tips
  Try using small programs and zips, big ones take a long time to upload.

• Warnings
  You can not E-Mail programs and zip files as attachments, no matter what E-Mail Program or Web site you use.

• Things You'll Need

1. A Computer
2. Internet access

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How to Change Your Microsoft Office Incoming Mail Server

Have you ever tried sending an email in Microsoft Office but the message just stayed in your Outbox and would not send? The problem may be that you have the wrong Incoming Mail Server. This guide will show you how to change your Microsoft Office Mail Server.

• Steps

1. Open Microsoft Office.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the Tools button from the toolbar.
   
   
   • From the drop-down menu, select Email Accounts.
     
     
     
     
3. Select the Next button.
   
   
   
   
4. Select the Change button.
   
   
   
   
5. Enter the correct Incoming Server information.
   
   
   
   
6. Click the Next button.
7. Click the Finish button.

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How to Add a Contact in Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook can help you organize people's phone numbers, email address, mailing address, web page and more. This guide will provide you with instructions on adding a contact to Microsoft Outlook.

• Steps

1. Open Microsoft Outlook
2. 
   
   
   
   

   

   Click for enlarged view.
   Near the bottom left-hand corner of your screen you will see 4 buttons: Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks. Click on the Contacts button.
3. 
   
   
   
   

   

   Click for enlarged view.
   Either click the Ctrl & N keys or click on the New Icon.
4. 
   
   
   
   

   

   Click for enlarged view.
   Fill in your contacts information.
5. 
   
   
   
   

   

   Click for enlarged view.
   Click the Save and Close Button.
6. Click on the Contacts Button again to make sure that your contacts information has been saved.

• Things You'll Nedd

1. Computer
2. Microsoft Outlook

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