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Question from Manuel: First of all, I really like your newsletter, Rick. I’ve learned a lot from you.
I have a question that I haven’t seen you address before.
When I delete a message in Gmail it automatically takes me back to the Inbox. How do I make it automatically open the next message instead? [Read more…]
Question from Thalia: Hi, Rick. I hope you can help me with something.
I have a Yahoo email account that I don’t use anymore because I recently switched to Gmail.
I want to delete the Yahoo email account but I have thousands of important emails in there that I really need to keep.
Can you tell me how to move all of those emails from Yahoo into my Gmail account so I can delete Yahoo without losing anything?
Gmail is one of the most popular email services out there thanks to all the cool and useful features it offers.
One of the handiest Gmail features of all is the ability to quickly and easily block anyone at all from sending you emails with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Thanks to this powerful feature, you don’t have to create a complicated “Rule” to keep a person’s emails from landing in your Inbox. [Read more…]
Have you ever composed an email message and wished you could have it be delivered to the recipient’s inbox at some specific future date and time?
For example, maybe you’d like to write someone a birthday greeting ahead of time to make sure you don’t forget it.
That’s all well and good, but what if you forget to log back into your email account and send the message when that person’s birthday actually arrives?
Luckily, Gmail allows you to schedule your emails to be delivered at any specific future date and time of your choosing. [Read more…]
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Question from Kevin: I hope you can help me with a Gmail problem, Rick.
I subscribe to several email newsletters (including yours), and almost all of them always end up in the “Promotions” tab instead of the Inbox.
That includes the newsletters I pay for, and I’m really tired of it.
I’ve selected “Not Promotions” so many times but Gmail ignores my choice and keeps on putting them in Promotions anyway.
I heard that I can disable the Promotions tab altogether so the newsletters will always go into my Inbox, but I can’t find that setting. Can you help me? [Read more…]