Google Mail
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Google Mail or "Gmail" is a free email service hosted by Google. Google also provides "Gmail" for educational institutions which is known as Google Apps for Education (GAFE).

Recently, Gmail has provided 15GBs worth of free storage for Mail, Drive (documents) and Photos for consumer accounts, while GAFE accounts have unlimited storage.

Composing Mail

New Message Window

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  • Letter A icon - Show message formatting tools
  • Paper Clip icon - Attach a file to your document
  • Drive icon - Share a link/attach a Google Drive document
  • Camera icon - Attach Photos
  • Chain Link icon - Insert a Link
  • Smile icon - Insert emoji
  • Trash icon - Delete message
  • Down Arrow icon - Message tools: Check Spelling, Print, etc


Sharing Drive document

While composing a message you can link to a Google Drive document in composition window.

  1. Click on the Drive icon
  2. Choose document
  3. Choose Insert As: Drive link or Attachment
  4. Click insert
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Attachment size limits

Google has a relativity low attachment size limit of 25MB as they prefer users to save large files in Google Drive and then share the files to your friends/colleagues. The largest size file that you can upload to Google Drive is 5TB.

=Settings Menu

  1. Click on the Gear icon
  2. Click Settings
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Signature

  1. Under the General tab
  2. Scroll down to Signature
  3. Modify signature
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Vacation Message

  1. Under the General tab
  2. Scroll down to Vacation responder
  3. Modify details
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Forwarding Mail

  1. Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab
  2. Choose Add a forwarding address
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