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Top 20 Most Popular Gmail Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

If they know something about Gmail that you don't know, their advantage will be short-lived, because here are the 10 Gmail tips and techniques most frequently requested. If you have a Gmail account, get the most out of it.

Of course, you may also want to know some things everybody else does not yet know:

11. How to Use Gmail

Use Gmail's archiving, search and labels to your advantage and manage email easily like never before.

12. How to Access a Gmail Account with Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x

When Mozilla Thunderbird spreads its wings and Gmail opens its doors, you can create an account in Mozilla Thunderbird to send and receive Gmail messages.

13. How to Forward Your Gmail Email to Another Email Address Automatically

Have Gmail forward incoming messages to any email address automatically to read them at your old email account in your old email program, for example. You can even make Gmail keep an archived copy of forwarded mail for search.

14. How to Access Gmail in iPhone Mail

You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.

15. How to Recover a Forgotten Gmail Password

Can't get into your Gmail account because none of the passwords you think you remember work? Here's how to authenticate and set a new Gmail password to get back into your account.

16. How to Insert an Image Inline in Gmail

Instead of just attaching pictures, you want them to appear intermingled with your text? Here's how to insert an image inline into a message you are composing in Gmail.

17. How to Import Mail from Mozilla Thunderbird in Gmail

If you move from using Mozilla Thunderbird for your mail to relying mostly on Gmail, here's how to take all your messages with you in a clean and simple fashion.

18. How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients from Gmail

If you want to send an email to a number of people but do it so that the email addresses of all these people are not shared with other recipients, a little trick and the Bcc: field in Gmail are all you need.

19. How to Change the New Mail Sound for Gmail

Want to hear when new mail arrives in your Gmail account? Want to hear something special? Here's how to specify the sound to play when new Gmail messages come in.

20. How to Access Gmail with Mozilla Thunderbird

All you need to know is your Gmail address, and you're ready to access all the mail it receives in Mozilla Thunderbird.

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