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Google is the world's largest search engine. It has its own email service, Gmail, where you can create an email address for free and with it access several other services, including YouTube.

To start registering, you need to go to gmail website. Now click on "Create an account" login to your profile.

A simple form will appear that you need to fill out.

In the first and last name fields, it is best to indicate real data. This may be useful for using other services, and also, if necessary, to regain access to the mailbox if you lose your password. You can hide your data, so don't worry, no one will know more about you than you allow.

Username (nickname) is your login. It will appear in the name of your mailbox. You need to come up with a login yourself. It can consist of Latin letters, symbols and numbers.

The password should be chosen so that it is as complex as possible. In addition to the fact that with its help you will access your mail, it will also protect your mailbox from hacking. In combination, you can use Latin letters (it is advisable to combine small and large letters) and numbers.

! You can write the password down in a safe place so you don't forget it.
! Otherwise, you will not be able to access your email.

You don’t have to specify your phone number, country, or alternate email address—they are not needed for registration.

If after you click « Further", Some of the fields are highlighted in red, which means you missed something or entered it incorrectly. Correct the error and press again "Further".

After all fields are filled in, you will be prompted to read "Terms of Use" .

There are no items saying that you are being sold into slavery, so feel free to click "I accept" — without this you will not be able to register. Now you will be shown a window where the address of your mailbox will be written. Write it down somewhere so you don't forget.

To go to your mail, you need to click on the button “Go to Gmail service” .

How to come up with a username for gmail mail

Creating a username can be a bit tricky. The fact is that each such login in the Google system must be unique, that is, two identical addresses cannot exist.

If the login you entered is already taken, the system will notify you (red text will appear below the field) and offer several unique options that you could use.

They are created based on the entered first name, last name and login. If you don't want to choose from what the system has suggested, come up with another nickname.

An additional parameter for the username is its length. It should not be shorter than 6 characters and longer than 30.

You can't change the name after creating the box, so think carefully before choosing the final option. If you only need email to register on some resources, then the name is not important.

Your Google Mail username

As mentioned above, your username will appear in the title of your mailbox, and this will be your email address. After creating an email, “@gmail.com” will be added to it. Your address will look like this:

It turns out that the name of the mailbox is made up of the username and the name of the mail service, connected to each other "dog" . The address is written together, a dot is placed only before "com" .

You can give this address to friends, acquaintances or clients to contact you.

How to find out your Google mail address

Once you log into your profile, you'll see a welcome window that tells you why Google Mail is the best, etc.

You can safely close this window; it will not be shown to you again.

To find out your email address, you need to click on the icon with the letter of your name in the upper right part of the window. A small hint will appear where the address will be written.

How to log into your Google mail

To access your email, you need to do a few simple steps. Typically, browsers remember our data so that we don't have to keep entering it.

Therefore, to enter you will simply need go to google website and in the right corner click on the icon with squares.

From the drop-down menu, select the Mail icon and that’s it. The box will open and you can use it.

If the browser did not save your data or you are accessing your mail from another computer, you will need to enter your username and password. And first you enter your login, then your password

Features of gmail mail

The most obvious capabilities of mail are receiving and sending letters. This can be either work correspondence or friendly correspondence. You can attach various files to letters, such as photos or documents.

In addition to mail, registration gives you the opportunity to use other products. Here's what's available to you after you create a Google account:

• Disk . You can store files up to 15 GB for free. Here you can upload data from a PC or mobile device, and then open or download it from another computer or device. In addition, you can make sure that other users can view your files too.
• Documentation . Service is online editor. Here you can create documents, tables, presentations, etc. They are saved on your disk. They can be downloaded, sent and edited at any time.
• YouTube . This is the world's most famous video hosting site. You can watch videos without registering, but through your Google mail address, you can log in to the site, subscribe to different channels, leave comments and upload your videos.
• Google play . This is a platform for mobile devices, from which you can install applications, download music, movies, etc.
• Google+ . A social network, like Facebook and other projects.

Together with your email address, you simultaneously gain access to several services. This is a big advantage of Google mail.

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To register with Google for free, you can use one of two options: create new Google email (that is, create a Google account), or use your existing email, for example, Mail ru or Yandex.Mail.

Before moving on to these options, it should be noted that Google is not only a search engine, but also a whole set of services, which include:

• search;
• YouTube();
• Google play (Google Play);
• news;
• cards;
• mail (Gmail.com);
• disk;
• calendar;
• Google Wallet (Google Pay)
• and etc.

Registering with Google for free means creating a new Google email (in other words, creating a Google account), or linking your existing email in order to use all Google services. In other words, by registering with Google, you thereby create a Google account on your computer, and also at the same time create a Google mail, register in Google Play, in the Google Play Market, in the Google Plus social network, in Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Documents and you get access to other Google services and features.

Thus, if you register with Google for free, then as a result you will have a universal key - an email and password, which gives access to all Google services.

In order to use these services, you must register with Google. There are two options for this:

1. create a new Google account,
2. or use any email.

Let's look at each of them.

I Create a Google account to register with Google for free

Step 1. Open any browser (Yandex, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, etc.).

Step 3. The “Create a Google Account” window will open, in which you need to fill in the at least, required fields:

Rice. 2. Create new account in Google (that is, we open a new mail @gmail.com)

8 in Fig. 2 – you can select the desired language from the drop-down menu, for example, Russian, if you have a different language option on your screen.

1 in Fig. 2 – Enter your first and last name.

2 in Fig. 2 – Now we need “Username”. Let's make it up. This can be either your name or some fictitious nickname. You can use letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers and dots. The main thing is that the username must be unique, one and only on the entire Internet.

3 in Fig. 2 – By the way, Google tells you which available usernames you can choose for your e-mail address. But you can ignore these tips and come up with your own name for Google mail (or Google account).

4 fig. 2 – Option “Use current address” Email"let's consider. In the meantime, we don’t pay attention to this link, because it is not needed to create a new Google account.

• What data do we use?
• Why do we need data
• Data control

By clicking “Other options” (Fig. 4), you can first read, and then you can quickly configure the following points by checking the box next to one of the proposed options:

Application and web history:

1. Save and web searches in your Google account,
2. Or don't save

1. Show personalized ads
2. Don't show personalized ads

YouTube search history

1. Save my YouTube search history to Google Account
2. Don't save

YouTube browsing history

1. Save my YouTube browsing history to Google Account
2. Don't save

Location history

1. Save my location history to Google Account
2. Don't save

1. Save my history to Google account
2. Don't save

You can check the box next to “Send me occasional reminders about these settings.”

All these settings can be made after registering a Google account, but few people remember about them later, and if they remember, it is already too late to configure or change anything.

At the end, click on the blue “I Accept” button (Fig. 4).

Great, Google account has been created:

Rice. 5. Google congratulates you on your new Google account

Google will congratulate you on creating your account. You can check your security account settings. Let's go to the Gmail service and use its capabilities.

This way you can create an account Google entry(aka Google account, aka Google mail and this is at the same time access to Google services).

II Register a Google account using your current email address

When there are many different mailboxes, it’s easy to get confused in the string e-mail addresses and passwords for them. You can register in Google with your favorite mailbox, for example.

But we must keep in mind that when registering on foreign sites, including foreign online stores, letters to confirm registration, for example, to Mail ru (mail.ru) may simply not arrive.

To register with Google using the email you already have, follow the link

and click “Use current email address” (Fig. 2). The “Create a Google Account” window will appear:

Rice. 6. To register with Google, you can use any email address

6 in Fig. 6 – you can immediately select the “Russian” language, if necessary.

1 in Fig. 6 – Enter your first and last name.

2 – We indicate your existing email – without errors, because a letter with a code will be sent there to confirm that this email is yours.

4 – Come up with a password of at least eight characters. It may be the same as the password for your existing email, but from a security point of view, the same password for your email and Google account is bad.

The “Confirm your email address” window will open (the address that was indicated in Fig. 6):

Rice. 7. Enter the confirmation code to register with Google with your email

To confirm your email address, go to your mail and look for the letter there. If it's not there, it may have ended up in your Spam folder. In Mail ru mail, a letter from Google to confirm the address looks like this:

Rice. 8. Email confirmation required

Open the letter, find the code there and enter it in the “Confirm your email address” window (Fig. 7).

After the email is confirmed, we get to the “Welcome to Google” window:

Rice. 9. To register with Google, you must indicate your date of birth and gender. If desired, you can provide a phone number.

1 in Fig. 9 – it is not necessary to enter your phone number, but it is still advisable to do so for the security of your account, including for the ease of restoring it.

2 – when entering age, you need to take into account Google’s age restrictions, about which see in more detail above after Fig. 3.

3 in Fig. 9 – select gender from the menu from four options: female, male, not specified, additional.

Rice. 10. You must accept Google's privacy policy

As you can see in Fig. 10, you can immediately set security settings for your Google account. See more about them, immediately after Fig. 4.

How to log out of Google and then log in

You only need to register with Google once, and then you can log out of Google and log in again. You need to log out of your Google account, for example, in order to log into another Google account. In addition, you should always log out of your Google account if you logged in from someone else’s device.

In order to log out of your Google account, you should click on the icon with your name in the upper right corner (1 in Fig. 11), and then click “Sign out” (2 in Fig. 11):

Rice. 11. Logout from Google account (or logout from Google mail)

To log into your Google account, go to.

Enter your username and password. If you have created a new Google mail, then enter its address and password (which you entered during registration - Fig. 2).

If another mail was used (for example, [email protected]), then to log into your Google account you need to enter her email (for example, [email protected]) and password for Google account (entered during registration - Fig. 6).

Google account on Android phone

To date electronic Google mail on gmail.com is created very often, because it is necessary for those who use electronic devices on the base operating system Android.

You can create a new account on your smartphone by following steps similar to those described above.

It may be easier for someone to register with Google first on a computer, and then use this Google account on an Android smartphone, for example, as an account.

Safety regulations

You can make security settings in your Google account. Perhaps more important than these settings are the basic safety rules that every user should use to avoid unpleasant surprises:

• it's important to create complex passwords to login;
• for greater security, the password can be changed periodically (once a week, or once a month, or at least once a year);
• You should not include dates of birth and the names of your loved ones, as well as your own, in your passwords;
• Do not share your account login information with anyone;
• if an account is necessary to perform your work or for financial transactions, it is better to create a separate one;
• Log in to your account from new devices and in unfamiliar places as little as possible.

Gmail.com is an example of an email service. Therefore, your personal, main, Mailbox, I created it on Gmail.com, although by that time I had about five e-mail addresses from other mail services.

I love the ease of use, reliability, and capacity of my Gmail.com inbox. By registering a mailbox on Gmail, you get the opportunity, with the same login and password, to access other Google services: the most popular video hosting YouTube, calendar, Google documents and many other useful services.

Registering with Gmail.com

To register for Gmail in Russian, go to the official website https://mail.google.com.

The Google Account login window will appear.

In order to log in, you need to enter the mobile phone number or email address specified during registration. But since you are not registered yet, click the More options link

From the options provided, select Create an account.

A page will open with a form that you must fill out.

We fill out the form.

1. What is your name. Here I advise you to indicate your real First and Last Name. Because other Google services, including those on your smartphone, will be associated with this account. I think this will be your main inbox for a long time! If you need a temporary mailbox, then you can follow my tutorial in a few minutes.
2. Create a username. This will be the name of your mailbox and login to your account. You will have to work hard to find a clear and memorable name. After all, names like olga, nina, ivan have been taken for a long time. Substitute names, and the system will tell you whether this name is occupied or free. To create a name, you can use letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers and dots.
3. Create a password. The password must have at least eight characters. For security reasons, it is not recommended to use passwords from other sites.
4. Confirm the password. To make sure you entered the password correctly, enter the password again. If the system displays that the passwords do not match, check whether the keyboard layout is set correctly. There must be Latin letters, not Russian.
5. Date of Birth. Select from the drop-down list.
6. Floor. Selected from the list.
7. Mobile phone number - necessary for more reliable account protection. If important documents are stored in your mailbox, you can allow login to your account only after receiving an SMS with a password on your mobile phone. Also, if you forget your password, you can request an SMS with a code to change your password.
8. A spare email address is necessary for more reliable account protection. For example, if suspicious activities are noticed in your account, the gmail administration will be able to send an alert to this address.
9. Make Google mine home page. If you check this box, the Google search engine will always appear when you open the browser. But many users make their favorite site their home page. Then, you don’t need to check the box here, otherwise your page will be replaced with a Google page.
10. A country. Select the country in which you currently live from the list.

After filling out the form, click Next.

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Use page opens. Read (scroll down the page) and click the “I Accept” button.


The "Verify your account" window will open. Enter your mobile phone number and click the "Continue" button.


A window will appear to enter the Confirmation Code, which will be sent to you via SMS. If the code does not arrive within 15 minutes, try again. I managed to complete the registration the third time. After entering the code, click the Continue button.


You will be congratulated on your successful registration and asked to log into your Gmail account. Click the "Go to Gmail service" button and start getting acquainted with your new mailbox.


You will see buttons that you can click to select a theme ( appearance) of your mail account, change (add) the main photo of your profile, import addresses and mail from another mail account. By the way, your new mailbox will already contain a letter from Google describing the capabilities of your Google account. And by clicking the “How to use Gmail” button, you will learn all the features of working with this mail service.

Video: how to register with Gmail - create a profile on Google

The video clearly shows:

• How to register with Gmail and gain access to all Google services;
• how to create folders,
• how to sort emails into folders,
• how to prepare a signature for letters,
• how to add files to letters,
• how to switch to other Google services?

Login to gmail.com

If you have already registered, then to log into Gmail, click the link mail.google.com

In the window that opens (Fig. 1), enter the Email or mobile phone number associated with your account and click Next. By the way, you can enter not the entire email address, but only the login - without @gmail.com

A password entry field will appear. Enter your password, click "Next" and your mailbox will open in front of you.

Sign in to other Google services

By registering with your email, you can use this username and password to log into any Google service.

While in your Gmail account, in the upper right corner, click the square (shown by the red arrow). A window with many buttons will open (see Figure 5). By clicking the desired button, you will be taken to the most popular Google services: Calendar, YouTube, Search, Maps.
And by clicking the link More, you will see buttons to other Google services, for example, Docs.

The Google search engine is very popular and every day a large number of users are interested in logging into Gmail.com and registering a mailbox. Many services are integrated into the mail options. It is a convenient, reliable and secure email service.

By creating your own account in Gmail, automatic integration into the social network Google+, YouTube, Play Market(Android apps), Disk (10 GB storage space personal information), Documents, etc. After registering and logging into your email, data synchronization occurs.

• enter your email name and password;

• The email login link will appear at the top of the Google page.

• You can also log in to Gmail from the Google search engine page, using the button on the right “ To come in".

If you were unable to log in due to incorrect password, you need to check the layout language, uppercase or capital mode ( CapsLock), whether the optional keyboard is enabled ( NumLock). If all else fails, click the " Help is needed" and follow the instructions to recover your password (more details below in the article).

Registration in Gmail.com mail

If you have not yet registered in Gmail, you should first go to search engine Google. After that:

• a page for entering the data required for registration will open;

• Fill out all the lines, enter the verification number from the picture and click “ Further";

Automatic login to Gmail.com

On the Gmail login page (registration must already be completed), select the “ Remain in the system". After launching the browser by clicking the " To come in" The mailbox opens. Now the gmail will open automatically.

Notifications about letters without logging into Gmail mail

Created for more convenient work with mail special applications, which are integrated into the Google Chrome browser (download) and will automatically notify about sent correspondence, without entering the mail page. Such add-ons include Checker Plus for Gmail. After installing it, on the right side of the browser ( Google Chrome) a mail icon will be displayed and a notification about sent letters (more detailed information after clicking on it).

Also, this add-on simplifies working simultaneously with several personal mailboxes, has voice notification and control, makes it possible to use mail even when the browser is closed, etc.

Login to Gmail.com without password - password recovery

This service is very attentive to the difficulties of users and all steps to restore mail have already been carefully worked out. The technical service has developed a clarification method that can be used to determine the real owner with a high probability. This instruction will cover the most difficult method - without access to a mobile phone number and without having an attached second mailbox:

• On the email password entry page, you need to click the link “ Help is needed";

• A page will open with a selection of possible problems, where you need to select “ I do not remember the password" and indicate your email address (if it does not appear automatically). After that, press the button " Continue";

• on the next page you need to specify the password in the form in which it was remembered and select “ Continue" or " I find it difficult to answer”;

• You will be prompted to use a phone number. Because In this manual, the method without access to a phone number is considered, then the item “ I can't use the phone";

If the mobile is available, the " Continue", The SMS code is entered and a new password is set. This completes the restoration of access for those who have a phone number linked to their account at hand.

• the dates of the last login to gmail.com and registration are entered;

• the next step is to answer the secret question entered during registration. Here you can enter the correct answer and select " Continue" or click on the button " Skip this question" if the question itself is forgotten;

• all subsequent steps are aimed at proving your belonging to this box. Each omission of a question will only prolong the procedure for restoring gmail mail (gmail.com). Upon completion, the system will process all these responses and provide access to the mailbox.

In the future, it is better to be safe from such cases and write down the data in a safe place. It wouldn't hurt to attach a valid phone number or a second mailbox to your email. You can do this in your account profile settings.

History of mailbox creation

Google's first email account was launched in 2004. After three years spent on its creation, the news published a revolutionary announcement. The public initially perceived the email service, accessible to everyone, promising free gigabyte storage as a joke.

Subsequently, thanks to gmail (gmail), great leaps forward took place in this area and almost all Internet mail services began to use these technologies.

Good afternoon, friends and colleagues! Today we will talk about email, namely about creating and setting up a gmail mailbox. Let's look at what opportunities Google Mail provides us with. gmail.com and how to use them correctly.

E-mail is such an ordinary concept for us that it’s even strange to talk about it. However, I will say a few words. The concept of email appeared back in the 60s of the 20th century, before the era personal computers and the Internet: users of mainframe computers could exchange messages using email programs. Of course, after the advent of the Internet, email immediately began to actively develop and be used.

Until now, despite the emergence of new means and communication services - mobile phones, numerous messengers, social networks– email is a “must have” service for any Internet user. You and I (at least many of my readers) are copywriters, freelancers or bloggers: could we do without email (by the way, it would be interesting to conduct such an experiment)? It is unlikely that this would have been possible. After all, we use mail for the following needs:

I even have a series of video lessons on organizing your mailing list and Email marketing. Here they are - in my school.

As you can see, email remains one of the tools a freelancer needs in his work. Actually, I don't think you need any convincing of this, so let's move on to the gmail review.

Why gmail.com email?

An ordinary user who does not send intelligence data by mail, as a rule, does not need to use the services of paid mail services. Their functionality is no fundamentally different from the functionality of their free counterparts, except for the absence of advertising and the declaration of the inviolability of correspondence. Therefore, I did not consider it too useful for my readers to review paid services. Free email services are well known to everyone:

• Mail.ru
• Yandex.ru
• Hotmail.com (brand changed to Outlook.com in 2013)
• Gmail.com
• Mail.com and others

The first two services are known and loved in Russia, perhaps I will write about them too. Hotmail, now Outlook, company-owned MicroSoft is a pioneer in the field of email, and Gmail is today's leader among free email services.

What makes it stand out? free mail Gmail compared to other mailers? It has many advantages:

• The web interface is convenient and friendly, it provides many useful functions. Using the web interface allows you not to think about the problems of synchronizing mail on different devices– you just go to their mail and work with it.
• Integration with popular Google services
• Working over a secure connection
• Implemented effective anti-spam protection
• Mailbox – 15 GB
• Ability to work with other mailboxes from the web interface.

Please note that there is a Russian service Gmail.ru online:

Oddly enough, he has nothing to do with Gmail.com, although he is also involved in email, namely providing paid services by forwarding email. This service has been in operation since 2003, while gmail email was launched by Google in April 2004. Keep this incident in mind and do not confuse them, these are completely different services.

So, let's look at the features of working with Gmail one by one. Let's start from the beginning - with registration.

Registering with Gmail.com

To be able to create a gmail email, you need to have a Google account. Go to gmail.com. If you are not registered with Google, you will be redirected to the Google account registration service accounts.google.com and you will see the following picture:

There are no special email accounts - Google uses a single account to access all of its services. Click “Create an account”. We get to the page for filling out the registration form, it also allows you to simultaneously create an email on gmail com:

Let's go through the form fields:

• First and last name. Your first and last name will be visible across all Google services, so consider whether it will be your real name or an alias.
• Username. This is where an “ambush” may await you: millions of users around the world have sorted out all the popular names and words, so you’ll have to use your imagination. The username can use Latin letters, numbers and periods, the number of characters from 6 to 30. If the name is taken, the system will offer you free names to suit your own strange taste:

You can use the hint or continue to fantasize.

• Password. At least 8 characters. It’s worth reminding once again about the importance of a strong password: there shouldn’t be any matches with the login. It is desirable that this be a random sequence of letters, numbers and symbols. Of course, a problem immediately arises - how not to forget it? Write it down on a paper notepad. An elementary action that few people do.
• Date of birth, gender - understandable;
• Mobile phone. You don’t have to fill it out, but I advise you to do so - after all, it will be with its help that you can recover your password if you forget it, as well as set up two-step authorization (we’ll talk about this a little later).
• Spare email address. It is also advisable to indicate. It is needed to ensure additional security account, for example, if there is suspicious activity in the account, a corresponding notification will be sent to it.
• Check mark and Country - everything is clear here.

Click the “Go to Gmail service” button and get to the mail web interface. You can also log into gmail by typing the addresses gmail.com, mail.google.com, or by clicking on the button located in the upper right corner in any Google service:

To log out of Gmail, you need to log out of your account:

Please note that you may have multiple Google accounts. Accordingly, several mailboxes: it may be easier for you to work from different accounts on different tasks. If you are already registered with Google, then you can use several methods to add another account:

Go to gmail.com:

Now let's start setting up mail. It is worth noting that this task can be divided into two:

1. Account setup
2. Setting up the actual mail

Account setup

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To enter your account settings, you need to click on the letter P in the circle (this is the first letter of your name, so you may have a different one) in the upper right corner:

By clicking on the circle that says "Edit", you can upload your photo. This photo will be visible to all users of Google services, so think carefully before uploading the first picture you come across.

By clicking on the “My Account” button, we are taken to the account settings and data protection page:

A lot of things, right? Let's not consider everything - after all, we are talking about mail now, so for now we will only pay attention to the “Login to Google Account” section in the “Security and Login” tab.

Here you can change the password for logging into your gmail email and your account in general. In fact, it is recommended to change your password periodically for security purposes. True, few people do this. But perhaps you will heed this advice...

In addition, there is such a “trick” as two-step authentication. What it is? In order to log into your account, you will need to enter passwords twice: your permanent password and a confirmation code that will be sent via SMS to the phone number specified during connection.

Why are such complications necessary? For example, if your mail (or other Google service) contains important, confidential, or any other information not intended for prying eyes, it makes sense to do everything possible to protect it. Is not it?

By enabling two-step identification, you will be able to specify devices from which the second step—entering a verification code—is not required when logging in. This could be yours home laptop, the loss or theft of which is practically impossible, or a working computer - in a word, a reliable device:

In addition, you need to set up backup methods for logging into your account in cases where the phone is unavailable for any reason:

There is one more point. If you use any applications that access Google services (for example, any email client), then after enabling two-step verification, these applications will no longer be able to log into your account. To solve this problem, Google has provided the ability to configure application passwords.

To do this, go to your account settings, section “Login to Google Account” - there we enabled two-step identification. You will see that another menu line has been added - “Application Passwords”:

We go to this section, select the Google service that you want to access, and the device that needs access:

Enter the received password into your account settings on desired device- and the problem is solved.

So, you see that two-step verification is a flexible and reliable tool that ensures the security of your account. In my opinion, a very good decision from Google, what do you think?

The rest of your account settings are your data, setting up actions in services, and so on.

Setting up gmail

Now let's go back to Gmail. Let's log in to your mailbox using one of the methods discussed above.

This is what the web interface looks like:

You can already start working. Everything is intuitive, there is a big red “Write” button and a list of incoming letters, what else do you need for happiness? By the way, let's click the button and see what the letter looks like:

It seems that everything is clear here too. If you click “To”, you will be taken to the contact list, from where you can select the recipient. Our contacts are empty for now:

The interface is convenient and quite understandable.

But still, let's see what settings you can make in the web interface to ensure a more comfortable experience.

First of all, I want incoming mail to be automatically classified and specified actions to be performed with it - some letters should be placed in certain folders, others should be forwarded to other addresses, and others should be deleted. Let's dig into this direction and see how Gmail manages inboxes.

The settings button – “Gear” – is located in the upper right corner. Click it and go to the “Settings” menu item:

There’s so much here... But there’s nothing to do, let’s figure it out.

Let's see what methods of grouping and filtering incoming messages can be subjected to.

Sorting by category

The simplest way to sort incoming mail is by category. You probably noticed that the Inbox is divided into sections:

Gmail itself determines which email corresponds to which category and places it in the appropriate tab. If a letter does not correspond to any of the categories, it remains in the “Unsorted” section. Let's check all the boxes and see what changes:

Yep, Natalya’s welcome email from Google has moved to the “Alerts” section.

Let's see what else there is.

Go to Gear – Settings – General – Stars:

These are marks that can be used to mark letters. If you have selected a set of four stars, by sequentially clicking on the star icon to the left of the letter header, you can choose how to mark it:

This is another tool for dividing emails into categories.

Shortcuts

There is a “Labels” tool for sorting letters. Shortcuts are a concept close to folders. To manage shortcuts, go to Gear – Settings – Shortcuts:

I noted the correspondence between the active shortcuts and their display on the left. You see, you can add or remove elements quite easily. You can also create shortcuts yourself; moreover, you can create a whole hierarchy of shortcuts:

I created a shortcut for "Work", then a shortcut for "Another Job", placing it under "Work". Please note that the sub-shortcut does not have a “Show in list” attribute; its visibility can be controlled from the column on the left by clicking on the icon next to the “Work” shortcut.

Created shortcuts can be deleted - this will not lead to the deletion of messages to which it is assigned.

By clicking on the arrow that appears when you hover the mouse over the created shortcut, you can get to the context menu:

Here you can choose the color of the label, as well as configure other parameters.

We can manually assign a label to an email and it will be displayed in the left menu when we click on the corresponding label. Let's put it into practice:

Let's take one of the letters automatically sent to us from Google.

We see that it is now marked with the “Inbox” label. IN top menu There is a “Labels” item with which we can manage the labels of a given letter.

Let's assign it "One more job":

I assigned the color blue to “Another Job”; Now we can see this letter both in the Inbox and in Another work:

This way we can process incoming messages and distribute them throughout different folders: in our example, we put letters from the main job in “Work”, letters from an additional job in “Another job”, you can create labels “Letters from Mom”, “Letters from Friends” and so on. But you must admit, it’s not very convenient to manually “pierce” each incoming letter. Is it possible to automate this work? Of course: filters are used for further work with correspondence.

Filters

What it is? Filters are actions that postal system performs with letters that meet certain specified criteria. We get into filter management through our favorite gear: Settings – Filters and blocked addresses.

Well, let's try to create some kind of mail processing rule?

Click “Create a new filter”:

You can see by what criteria mail is sorted. You can fill in one field, or several - then there will be a complex condition. I'm in in this example I want to make a filter that sends incoming letters that contain the words “Work urgently” to the “Work” folder.

Let's mark two checkboxes: skip inbox - this means that a letter that meets the specified conditions will not be displayed in the Inbox folder, and apply a shortcut - indicate which one. As a result of the filter being triggered, letters in which I am asked to “work urgently” should end up in the “Work” folder, bypassing the “Inbox”.

Let's see in this tab what other actions can be performed with correspondence:

Filter created:

Let's try to check how it works. Let's send a letter with code words from another address:

Everything worked out. The letter is not in the Inbox; it immediately moved to Work. We have mastered another convenient Gmail tool.

Gmail email definitely aims to be everything for its user: in the web interface you can import contacts and all the accumulated mail from other email addresses, you can “bind” these addresses to the web interface and use them.

Let's see how quickly and conveniently all this is implemented in practice. Our usual Gear – Settings – Accounts and import:

Let's see what opportunities this tab provides us.

• Change account settings - everything here seems to be clear.
• Import mail and contacts. Well, let's try:

Enter your email address, I got my email from mail.ru.

We indicate what exactly we want to import - let everything be to the maximum.

And we wait. Yes, it’s a slow process, but everything happens automatically. By the way, this task only took me a few minutes. Let's see what my mail looks like now:

Let's see what's going on in Contacts - they should have loaded too.

Contacts are in the upper left corner:

We go to Contacts and see:

Yes, all my recipients are here. Great, everything works. Let's move on.

• Send mail as: at this point we select from which mailbox our letters will be sent by default. By the way, the imported box has already been added:

You can add more boxes by confirming with a password that they are yours.

• Receive mail from other accounts. How is this function different from what we just did? Using import, Gmail collects existing messages and contacts, and also forwards new ones within a month - so that you have time to send notifications to your recipients about the transition to a new email, i.e. You seem to have decided to abandon your previous mailboxes and completely move to Gmail. Receiving mail from other accounts means that you do not abandon them, you just now work exclusively in the Gmail web interface.

How to enable receiving mail from other accounts? There are two ways:

1. receive old mail and activate new mail;
2. configure only receiving new mail.

To receive all messages, you need to do the following:

If you want to set up receiving messages from a third-party email service, make sure that access via the POP3 protocol is enabled, but if from another Google account, go to that account in the menu Gear - Settings - Forwarding and POP/IMAP and activate the "Enable" option POP for all emails":

After this, return to your current account and in the “Accounts and Import” tab, add the required mail account.

The second way is to receive only new emails. To do this, you need to set up forwarding: in a third-party mail service - depends on the settings of the corresponding service, in another Google account through Gear - Settings - Forwarding and POP/IMAP, click “Add forwarding address” and indicate your new address.

So, let's return to the Accounts and Import section. We've come to the point

• Do you use Gmail for work?

Google offers to connect business applications that help in business, of course, for additional fee. This is corporate mail, additional GB in cloud storage, opportunity public access and so on. I won’t dwell on these applications, I’ll just mention that there are solutions for business.

Next option:

• Provide access to your account

You can let another Gmail user read, send, and delete mail on your behalf. If a representative is sending a letter on your behalf, the sender's address will indicate that the letter was sent by a representative. This function can be convenient in some cases - for example, when a secretary handles the manager’s mail, or when an employee goes on vacation.

Well, the last thing we see on the Accounts and Import tab:

• Increase mailbox capacity

By default, when registering an account, a new Google user is given a mailbox size of 15 GB. It is worth considering that in fact this disk space is used not only for storing mail, but also for files that you place in Google Drive And Google Photos. It is clear that 15 GB may not be enough, in which case you can expand this space for an additional fee:

• 100 GB – 139 rub./month.
• 1 TB – 699 RUR/month.
• 10 TB – 6990 RUR/month.
• 30 TB – RUR 20,990/month.

Different features of Gmail

Let's look at some mail features that we didn't discuss in previous sections.

In the lower right corner of the screen in the web interface we can see some icons:

This is Google's Hangouts messenger program, which is quite widely used on smartphones, but also has an interface for computers. What this messenger allows:

• Create group chats;
• Arrange video conferences;
• Make phone calls;
• Send SMS;
• Share media content.

If you are not going to use all these functions (something tells me that most likely you are not going to) - you can turn off the display of Hangouts: Gear - Settings - Chat - Turn off chat.

A convenient innovation from Gmail: messages with the same subject are grouped into threads, where the new message is displayed above the previous ones. Isn't that a good idea? You can look at the entire correspondence at once, without setting any additional grouping conditions. By default, grouping emails into threads is enabled; but if this function does not suit you for some reason, you can disable it in Settings: General – Disable.

In the general tab, you can also set the page size - how many chains to display on one page and how many contacts. We have already seen the contacts; in principle, working with them does not present any difficulty.

Settings - General: Various functions

Since we're in the General settings section, let's see what else interesting you can see in it that we haven't covered before.

• Images

By default, pictures received in messages are shown immediately; if you have low speed Internet connection, you can enable the “Ask if I want to show an image” feature.

• Default text style

You can customize the font you use to write letters.

This feature can be handy if you need to track incoming messages. Works for Google browsers Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

• Shortcuts

If you don’t want to point the mouse on the screen, but prefer to work with the keyboard, you can enable shortcut keys and use them to manage your mail: navigate through sections, sort and delete messages, and so on.

• Button labels

This refers to the buttons located in the top menu when opening a letter:

The default is icons. If we change the value to “text”, the picture will look like this:

• Signature

It may be necessary to automatically add your signature to letters, this is especially true for business correspondence. Of course, Gmail gives this opportunity to its users:

Another one useful feature for business people - an answering machine. If you are absent from your workplace - you went on vacation, on a business trip, or simply went into the astral plane - turn on an answering machine during your absence, which will respond to incoming messages with a template letter. If a person does not believe that you are not there and writes again and again, the answer will only be once every four days. Emails identified as spam and bulk mail will not receive an auto-reply. When you return, don't forget to turn off your answering machine.

We went over the most interesting options from the General settings section. What else is left out of our settings? Sections Laboratory, Offline and Themes.

Gmail is testing a variety of features that have not yet been implemented in the mail experience in the “Lab” section of the settings. The section is constantly updated: something is put into operation, something is removed, new developments are added, so I will not describe the functions that are available in the Laboratory at the time of writing the review. You can go to this section and see what is there, read the descriptions and, if you wish, add the function you like to your mail. For example, let's enable a feature that adds a viewport to the right and bottom of messages:

Save the changes. Before using the function, the inbox list looked like this:

Now, next to the language selection icon, an additional button has appeared, by clicking which you can select the message viewing mode.

Take a look, experiment – ​​it’s actually a fascinating activity. Isn't it true that Google came up with a good idea?

Offline

Here it is suggested to install gmail app Offline, which does not require an Internet connection to operate. The program has the familiar Gmail interface. All messages on which any actions have been performed in this application will be synchronized with your account when connected to the Internet.

Themes

In this section (you can also get to it from the Gear - Topics menu) you can choose the design option for your mail:

Let's take a theme and see what it looks like:

Perhaps I’ll return to the traditional design... But you understand that this is only a matter of your taste. You can choose a texture, change the background, or use your own photo. In general, create with Gmail!

A little about security

There is one subtle, but potentially useful, feature in the settings. At the bottom of the settings page, regardless of which section is open, there is a link for Additional information:

Click it and see the sign:

What it is? This latest actions in your account: when, from what IP address, from what device or browser any movements were made. If you see in the Access Type column a browser that you do not have, or a POP3 server that you do not use mail client, then an unpleasant conclusion is quite likely: you have been hacked... To prevent this from happening, do not neglect the security measures that we discussed above.

Gear: interface settings

In Gear, you can change the appearance of the interface.

Spacious (the one we worked in):

Compact:

Choose how it is more convenient for you to work. Another little thing – but it’s nice.

How to delete gmail

It may happen that you no longer need a postal Gmail account, and you need to remove it. How to do it? You can go two ways:

1. Delete only mail, leaving account
2. Delete account

Go to your account settings:

In your account settings, select Disable services and delete your account:

In the window that opens, select “Delete services”, the following window will open:

If you are sure that you do not need mail with all its contents, click on the trash can icon; if you want to save something, download the data. Still, I advise you to download the data before deleting Gmail: what if there is something valuable left in the mail that you will need immediately after deletion?

We are deleting only mail, so we mark the “All mail” icon:

The saved data in the form of an archive can either be received by mail or uploaded to cloud storage - you can specify which one.

The archive can take a long time to create: several hours or days. If you chose the method of receiving By link, wait until the archive is formed, because the link to it will be sent to the very address that you are planning to delete. You will need to go to gmail and make sure you receive the following letter:

Well, let's download the archive:

Click the “Download” button and you will receive the archive on your computer.

Now let's return to deleting mail. Do you remember: An icon with your initial or photo – My account – Account settings – Service settings and deleting an account – Delete services. Add Gmail to your cart.

You need to enter your email address and follow the link that will be in the letter sent to this address. Please note: you cannot enter the address that you specified as a backup when registering your account. So we enter an address that is in no way connected with Google and we get a “chain letter”:

We follow the link, log into your account, read the “latest Chinese warning”, confirm - and that’s it, we don’t have Google mail. At the same time, the account remained safe and sound, while the address that we indicated above is now linked to the account.

However, you can restore the mailbox - and if you deleted it recently, the letters may also be saved. To do this, go to the Mail service:

You will be prompted to add the deleted mail to your account:

Check the data and click “Submit”:

You receive a confirmation code, enter it into the form - and the mail is at your disposal again! You can now go to gmail and check if everything is saved.

Account deleting

The second method is to delete the entire account. Keep in mind that when you delete your account, you lose access not only to your mail, but also to all data associated with it: documents in cloud storage, photos, and so on. Therefore, approach this action responsibly; restoring your Gmail and your entire account if you change your mind is quite labor-intensive and sometimes impossible.

Go to the icon with your initial or photo – My account – Account settings – Service settings and deleting an account, and there you select “Delete account and data”:

Read it, then Google will write to you. It's really important information, which is worth paying attention to:

Important information

Download the data - we talked about this above. If you have weighed everything and are confident in your decision, well, check the boxes and click the Delete account button.

If you managed to delete your account by accident, then there is a chance to get everything back:

Click “Try to restore it.” We will be asked to enter a password, if everything is fine with the password, the account will be restored. But what if you don't remember it? Click “Another Question” and a one-time code will be sent to your backup address. If for some reason this address is not available, click on “Another question” again, and you will be asked about the month and year the account was created. If you still can’t answer this question, Google will suggest the following:

If this option does not suit you and you click on “Another question”:

Like this. And remember that you can restore your account no later than within two to three weeks after deleting it, so I urge you to reconsider everything carefully.

Conclusion

Email gmail.com is an excellent tool for working with messages both as a personal mailbox and corporate mail. A convenient web interface allows users to solve basically any problem; it can be customized to suit themselves and perform the necessary operations with mail. Creating and using gmail is not difficult: I hope you are convinced of this.

Perhaps I did not consider some functions and “tricks” of Gmail - tell us what was left “behind the scenes” in my review? What kind of box do you use?

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