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Gmail has been a pretty strong spam blocker so far, and I use it to route emails to avoid webmail spam for our other email ids too, but there have been some lapses on their part where International characters (non English)  are concerned.
Related: How to find if your Gmail Account is Hacked?
I received a email [...]

Have you come across a scenario where you have sent a email but forget to attach a file with it? If you have been through the “Oops, I forgot to attach the file” scenario more than once, Gmail labs has added another cool feature called Forgotten Attachment Detector, that will alert you, if you forget [...]

Recently I got a email from a long time friend and blogger which startled me, the first thing I thought was to spam it, but then I realized instead of doing that, I should just send him a email saying, please stop sending me such emails.
I did send him a email, and he immediately pinged [...]

Gmail allows you to access your email from desktop based applications like Outlook and Thunderbird using IMAP and POP3 access, you can also use the Gmail system as a backup system by adding it as a drive in Windows. Managing contacts is a different thing, to manage your contacts you will have to physically login [...]

Over a period of time you may have tons of unread emails in your Gmail Inbox, most of these emails may be months or years old and navigating to each of these messages and marking them as read can be time consuming.

Here are three simple steps in which you can mark all the [...]

Update: Official Gmail Blog has confirmed that the outage happened and is fixed. The problem was caused by the contacts system used by Gmail.
Many of our Twitter followers started tweeting, that Gmail has been down for them.
We could confirm that Gmail is down for one of our accounts, but another account worked fine which means [...]

Since the launch of Google Docs, it’s been obvious that Google is slowly constructing a full-scale online office suite. Even though Microsoft’s hold on the market is loosening, the vast majority of web-based office productivity applications still have a long way to go before they can replace their desktop counterparts. So far, Google is holding [...]