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If you use Gmail's previously mentioned Mail Fetcher tool to grab email from other POP3-enabled email accounts, you may have noticed that it sometimes checks for new mail on very slow ...

When you send an important email to someone through your Gmail account, you may wish to know when your message was received and read by the recipient. Gmail provides a "read receipt" feature powered ...

You can make Gmail check email faster by setting the client to basic HTML view, which loads faster but does not support features like chat, rich formatting, spell check, or contact editing. Setting ...

This insanely useful Chrome extension shoehorns all your accounts into a versatile, workflow-preserving drop-down menu, and even adds voice dictation. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

This mail checker lets you interact with Gmail from the popup. Email notifications are like coffee: Some people can’t stand them, while others are addicted (and, yes, even use them to wake up in the ...

While Gmail alone can dramatically improve your email efficiency, Gmail and Chrome together make a one-two productivity punch that’s hard to beat. Here are four Chrome extensions that help reduce the ...