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Whitelist senders by adding them to your Gmail contacts. This will ensure that these messages won't be marked as spam.   thesource (378)

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Automatically download your Gmail email into your favorite email program (such as Outlook express, or Windows Mail) by setting your Gmail account's POP settings, and following the setup instructions provided by Gmail. This is also a good way to keep a backup of your Gmail messages.   thesource (378)

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Have your domain's email directed to Gmail: If you have a domain hosted on a shared server and you don't trust the reliability of the email from it, you can have all your email directed to Gmail instead of your domain, by changing the email MX setting in your web hosting administration panel. (Only do this if you know what you are doing)   thesource (378)

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Import contacts (names, email addresses, etc) into Gmail by exporting them from your local application as a comma-separated file, and then importing them into the Gmail contacts.   thesource (378)

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Keyboard shortcuts can speed things up. You can enable them from your Gmail settings page.   thesource (378)

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Deleting spam messages from the spam View is not necessary, since Gmail will do this for your automatically once a spam entry is 30 days old. Before that time, if you inadvertently mark a message as Spam, you can always go into the Spam view and move it back to the Inbox, which "unmarks" the message as Spam.   thesource (378)

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Show only unread messages: Search mail for label:unread label:inbox ( link )   thesource (378)

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Gmail notifier: ( link ) can be used to notify you when you have received new mail in your Gmail account, and also enables Gmail to be your default email client within Windows.   thesource (378)

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Backup your most important files to your Gmail web space. You can do this by sending a message to your Gmail address and attaching the file you want to backup. You may need to compress the file in a RAR archive. And you will probably want to securely encrypt the file as well.   thesource (378)

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