I'm tired of Gmail's threading and performance problems and want to just give up and bail on the service entirely. Not just ignore my account but actually delete it from the Gmail system. Oddly enough, though, that seems to be impossible. So, Dave, how do I delete my Gmail account?...

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I've heard that I can view more information about where an e-mail message came from, by viewing the "full headers" of the message. How can I do that in Gmail?...

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I like Google Mail, but the threading feature drives me nuts. I don't want my mail threaded and I don't think of conversations that way. The worst is that every time I print, I print the entire thread, rather than just a single email message in the thread. Darn Gmail! Is there a way to print just one message?...

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I have a stalker. Some weird guy seems to have nothing better to do in his life than pay attention to when I log in to Google Gmail and then instantly hit me up for a chat. If I don't respond, he keeps sending messages. It's creepy. I don't like him. How can I block him from bugging me?...

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On my journey to find the ideal Google Gmail account ID, I ended up registering a few extra accounts (Gmail addresses? Not sure how to phrase that). Problem is, at this point I just want to axe the old addresses but can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. How on earth do you delete or cancel a Gmail account address?...

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I have a ton of email in my Gmail archive, and sometimes need to dig through older email. Problem is, if I do a search, it shows me all the most recent matches first when what I really want to do is, say, search for messages more than a year old, or 12-18 months ago or similar. Is there any way to do a more sophisticated search than just by keyword?...

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I am really embarrassed and frustrated that I am SO dumb as to have to ask this question, but I CANNOT FIND WHERE TO FORWARD, NOTHING COMPLICATED, JUST FORWARD SOMETHING TO A FRIEND WHEN I WANT TO? I have looked and the only reference to forwarding in Gmail is in the settings which means it would be an "overall" forwarding request. I just want to do an occasional simple forwarding....

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I'm pretty sure that there's a way to do this, but I don't know what it is: how can I tell in Google's Gmail if an email message is addressed to me explicitly or whether it's part of a mailing list? I mean, without checking the mail headers themselves?...

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I was just looking over at someone else's computer and noticed that they had a completely different look and feel for their Google Gmail Web pages. I mean, REALLY different look, with ninjas and everything. She said she'd tweaked her "theme" but I don't know about that plug-in. But, damn, it looked cool. How can I tweak the appearance of Gmail?...

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Hi Dave, I am trying to set my Gmail to "vacation" mode with auto responder then, forward email to another gmail account, is it possible, can I use both Vacation mode w/auto responder and forwarding together in Gmail, so far I cannot make it work....

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I swear someone's logging into my Google Gmail account and reading my email. I know it should be impossible, but I dunno. Is there some way to check and see if that's happening?...

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After two of my friends had information stolen from them through public wireless networks, I'm completely paranoid. Is there some way to connect to Google's Gmail service securely?...

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I know that Google's Gmail service has a spam filtering system, but a friend of mine was also telling me that you can use a "plus notation" to compartmentalize incoming spam too? Do you know what he's talking about?...

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I've never had this problem before: I upgraded Firefox on my Mac OS X system and now any time I'm on a page with a "mailto:" link, those links are not clickable. Any other sort of "href" works fine, but email links do nothing. I looked through the preferences, but nada. How can I fix things?...

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I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how Google forces you to interact with your email when you're using Gmail and really miss folders. Can I emulate the same sort of auto-filing of messages with the "labels" feature so that messages from a specific mailing list never show up in my inbox at all?...

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I'm a big fan of Google's Gmail service, except there are some things I can't quite figure out. For example, some of my mail is routed into folders (well, label bins, whatever they call them) and I find myself paging through thousands of messages to identify those that are unread. Also, can I search through my chat history to find specific things?...

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I'm wondering if I can create a group within my google contacts and make these group also available to other google users. I realized on your website that you are a google guru - so I thought I give it a try and ask you!...

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I often have long, complicated mail threads in my Google Gmail account and get frustrated when I want to respond to the person sending a particular message, but not the rest of the people on the list. Is there some snazzy shortcut for doing just that?...

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This is weird: my friends are telling me that when I send mail from Gmail, the return address is to googlemail.com, not gmail.com. Have I had my Gmail account hacked or something?...

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I've read about "Google Profiles" and am definitely interested in figuring out how to set up my own profile. I'm still not entirely sure why I'd bother, but can you at least tell me where I'd set one up within the Google empire?...

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