Read Receipts

How can I know if my recipient has opened/read the email that I sent?

By far the easiest and most reliable way to know if your recipient has read a message is to ask them in the message to send you a brief reply.

While Google Apps (for business and government) supports read receipts, Gmail's web interface does not support automatic read receipts or message disposition notifications (MDNs).

But I really want an automatic notification.

Some mail clients allow you to set a special header that requests an automatic receipt notification from the receiving mail client. While you can't do this in Gmail's web interface, you can use a desktop mail client that supports this feature (such as Mozilla Thunderbird or MS Outlook) to send your mail via Gmail's SMTP servers.

There are also variety of web-based services that can be used with any email address to send tracked mails. You should think very carefully before using such services, because they often use shady techniques to track emails. For example, they frequently use techniques otherwise employed only by spammers. Your recipients may consider such techniques to be an attempt to violate their privacy.

What's the problem with read receipts?

There are essentially two problems with read receipts in general:

They are unreliable: For a read receipt to work, the receiving client must support it and be configured to use it. Many clients (including most webmail services) will simply ignore any read receipt request. For this reason, not receiving a read receipt doesn't mean that the mail was not read. In addition, some systems may reply to read receipts without the user having truly opened the message. So receiving a read receipt doesn't necessarily mean the mail was read. In other words, read receipts tell you almost nothing. Even the sneakier techniques used by mail tracking services are far less than perfectly reliable. 

They may be considered a violation of privacy: Your recipient may not want you to know exactly when they opened your email. For this reason, most modern email clients won't send a read receipt without the explicit confirmation of the recipient.

I don't care about that. I still think Gmail should have read receipts.

Feel free to use the Suggestion Form to let them know.

Why is my browser redirecting repeatedly?

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To update the time settings on a Windows machine:

1. Double-click the time in your taskbar.
2. Click the Time Zone tab along the top of the dialogue box.
3. Verify that your time zone is selected. If the time zone in which you are located is not displayed, select your time zone from the drop-down menu.
4. Verify that the box beside Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes is checked.
5. Click OK.

For other platforms, please refer to your operating system's help documentation.

 

Gmail Lab Not Showing

1. Make sure that you are in the New Gmail Version by using a Supported browser

     list supported browser click here

2. If you using Google Apps for your domain make sure that you have enable the new service and new release click here

 

The Gmail Labs will not show if you using a older browser such as IE 6 or Firefox 1,& 2 Safari 1 or if you using the older version of gmail.

 

3. Check to see what version of browser you using click here

Gmail Customer Care Spam/Scam

If you received an email that is From Gmail Customer Care

That may look simmer to this email below.

 

Dear Account User

This Email is from Gmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every

Gmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions

due to the anonymous registration of Gmail  accounts so we are

shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to

be deleted.We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and

let us know if you still want to use this account.If you are still

interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your

User name,password,date of birth and your country information would be

needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion in all Gmail users and removal of all unused

Gmail Accounts, Gmail  would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You

will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information

below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be

suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

* Username:

* Password:

* Date of Birth:

* Country Or Territory:

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not

be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention

to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences. Warning!!!

Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks

of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

 

 

You should always be wary of any message that asks for your personal information, or messages that refer you to a webpage asking for personal information. If you receive this type of message, especially from a source claiming to be Google or Gmail, please DO NOT provide the information requested.

 

Messages asking for personal information

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Why is my browser redirecting repeatedly?

To update the time settings on a Windows machine:

1. Double-click the time in your taskbar.
2. Click the Time Zone tab along the top of the dialogue box.
3. Verify that your time zone is selected. If the time zone in which you are located is not displayed, select your time zone from the drop-down menu.
4. Verify that the box beside Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes is checked.
5. Click OK.

For other platforms, please refer to your operating system's help document

 

 

 

Reference link   Browser endlessly redirects

 

Adjust Time in Mac.

Launch the System Preferences Select the Apple menu in the upper left-hand corner of the menu bar and drag your cursor to "System Preferences." Release the mouse to launch "System Preferences."

Step2

Date and Time In "System Preferences," click "Date and Time."

Step3

Date and Time Preferences Click the "Date and Time" button at the top of the preference panel. Check "Set date and time automatically" if your Mac is connected to the Internet to have your time set automatically. If your Mac is not connected to the Internet, you can set the date and time manually using the arrows above the calendar and clock icons.

Step4

Time Zone preferences Click the "Time Zone" button at the top of the preference pane to set your Mac's time zone. You can select the time zone by clicking on the city nearest to your location on the time-zone map, or by clicking on the closest city's pop-up button and dragging to the nearest city to your location.

Step5

Clock Preferences Click on the "Clock" button at the top right of the "Date and Time" preferences pane to set the preferences for the menu-bar clock on your Mac's desktop. Click "Show Date and Time" to enable the menu-bar clock. Selecting "Digital" will display the time digitally; clicking "Analog" will display a round analog clock in the menu bar. The check boxes below the radio buttons will further customize your menu-bar clock. If you check the "Announce the Time" box, your Mac will announce the time on the hour, half- or quarter-hour. The "Customize Voice" button selects the built-in voice to use to announce the time. When you've finished setting up your "Date and Time" preferences, click the red "Close Window" button in the upper left-hand corner of the preferences pane to save your changes.

Gmail Notifer Patch

Good news for Windows users - Gmail have a small download available that will 

set the Notifier to use https. Here's the instructions: 

1. Download Patch.  

2. Open up the folder. 

3. Double-click on the file called notifier_https.reg to install it. 

4. Click 'yes' when you're asked to confirm if you want to add the 

information to the registry. 

5. Restart the Notifier. 

And you're done! The Notifier will now work with Gmail set to always 

use https. If you decide you don't want to use that setting anymore, 

you'll need to install the other file in the zip folder - 

notifier_https_undo.reg - to reset Notifier. 

Help Center on Gmail Notifer 

 

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Why can't I download messages I send from my POP client?

 

If you really want your email download from email client  you must use the Recent mode

 

Recent mode fetches the last 30 days of mail, regardless of whether it's been sent to another POP client already.

 

In your POP client, replace 'username@gmail.com' in the Username field your POP client settings with 'recent:username@gmail.com'. Blackberry users will be signed in to recent mode automatically, without adding 'recent:'.

Once you enable recent mode, please be sure to configure your POP client to leave messages on the server according to the instructions below:

In Outlook, on the Advanced tab, check the box next to Leave a copy of messages on the server.

In Outlook Express, on the Advanced tab, check the box next to Leave a copy of messages on server.

In Apple Mail, on the Advanced tab, remove the check next to Remove copy from server after retrieving a message.

 

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948  

In Thunderbird, on the Server Settings tab, check the box next to Leave messages on server.