Gmail Tricks and Tips

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I love Gmail. I take my emails everywhere.

One of the best features of Gmail is that if your computer crashes, all of your emails reside on google's mammoth servers.

Other Benefits:   

• Online documents and spreadsheets. 
• Best spam-stopping tool in the market.  I've dealt with Outlook, Yahoo, and Hotmail, and discovered that Gmail has the best spam-stopping capability.
• Just like outlook you can segregate your mail by labels that can be applied to emails.
• Filters.  You can set auto-filters that send mail into different "labels" much like Outlook filters
• You never have to worry about losing your data 
• You can be traveling and still have access to ALL your emails, clalendar, and documents.
• NEVER worry about hitting your email storage limit  (If you do hit a storage limitation, you can segregate your emails into different accounts.
• Best Mail search tool in the market.  Face it, Most email clients are plain bad at searching for thousands of emails for a keyword.  Naturally, Google does well at this. 
• When mail search actually works, you'd be surprised how OFTEN you use it. (which was not much with Outlook)
• Manage all your contacts, just like Outlook.
• Its Free.

 Gmail Tricks

One of the things I really don't like is spam;  Here is a quick way to defeat the gmail spam.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses - one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

That means if your email address in Gmail is something like billgates@gmail.com, all email messages that are sent to billgates@googlemail.com will also be delivered to your own Gmail account. That's two for the price of one.

You can take advantage of these two domains so that less spam reaches your Gmail Inbox.  Give the @googlemail.com address to your close contacts (put that in the visiting card) while keep the @gmail.com address for public (put it on your blog). Then set a Gmail filter such that all email messages with @googlemail.com in the header go a special folder so you will never miss important email from close friends.

Source
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/gmail-email-alias-two-separate-gmail-address/2388/

Gmail SSL Trick

Concerned with Gmail Privacy?

Here's a little tip for you…You can indeed use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer,  a protocol developed by Netscape for for transmitting private documents via the internet for your Gmail transactions)

This trick works great and is secure (at least, secure between your browser and the Google Server) Next time you connect to Gmail, click in the address bar and change "http://" to "https://" and press Enter/Return.

Now you're connected via SSL and if you then bookmark that "https" link as your starting point, it should keep you on the secure server for every interaction. Very nice if you're working on a public wifi network, for example.