I’m a big fan of Google’s Gmail service, but I really wish there was a way for me to organize groups of people together into a mailing list or group, so I could type, say, “family” and have it go to my Mom, sister, brother, and so on. Is that doable and I just don’t know about it, or is this still a capability beyond Gmail?
This feature, what Google calls Contact Groups, was just recently added to the popular Gmail service, as it happens, and here’s exactly how to create that list for your family:
Log in to your Gmail account.
Click Contacts on the left side of the page.
If you want to work off your existing list of contacts, simply check the boxes adjacent to the individuals in the “Frequently Mailed” or “All Contacts” tabs, then choose “New group…” from the “Add contact to…” pop-up menu.
Or, if you want to create a new list from scratch, click on the new Groups tab, then click Create Group:
Since I don’t have any groups (yet!) it’s blank and offers a simple shortcut, but notice on the top right the Create Group link. Click on it, and you can start building your group:
That’s all there is to it. Nice, simple, and elegant, as we’ve learned to expect from the Google team.
Oh, and say “Hi” to your Mom too. 🙂
Hi Dave,
I am having trouble with gmail contacts. When I click on contacts it will not load on my pc in google chrome.
It does load in internet explorer. Are there settings I need to change in google chrome?
Hello i have an account in gmail but i want to export my all inbox mails and send mails to my pendrive.how can i do this…..
Hi Dave – our Gmail account is set up so that every message rec’d is forwarded to 3 people. My email address is the first in the “forward a copy to” window and I do get copies of all incoming emails. The other two people on the list do not, and we can’t figure out why.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Valerie
sir
some one hacker remove my gmail mails
how i restore my all mails
my id is
tanhaumair@gmail.com
plzz contact me soon on my gmail address
regards
M UMAIR HASSAN
ANYONE OUT THERE,
WHAT IS THE PHONE # FOR FREE G-MAIL TECH SUPPORT? my server for g-mail is giving me error message “Oops…a server error occurred and your e-mail was not sent (#008)” PLEASE HELP ME (713-397-1731)…I need to get this e-mail out, then get back to 30 hours of on-line “continuing education” for my State License ASAP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Merry
I have an id abc.xyz@gmail.com (example id)
Today i just got somebody’s phone bill in my abc.xyz@gmail.com, i checked the receiver’s column and the id was abcxyz@gmail.com(“without the dot”, it is not my id )
When i opened my id without typing the dot between the name and the surname abcxyz@gmail.com , it opened up my abc.xyz id.
How can it happen? gmail should not open my id without a dot in it?
even though it opens up my id only but again what about the security?
meaning i can open my id with or without . dot between my name and the surname. and i will keep getting the somebody else’s bills?
abcxyz@gmail is somebody else’s id.
pls reply
vandana
Bhagyalakshmi, I suggest that you check out some of the major email list management services. Aweber.com, for example, will automatically track bounces and suspend the account of anyone whose mail fails to be delivered properly.
Hi,
I have to send mass mail for company’s marketing. This is part of my job. I have created contact groups. SOme of the contacts are merged. But when i send mail few of the id get again and again. Is there any way to keep only single copy of email id in my contacts( 1 email id must have only one group). I cant do it manually because there is database of thousands of company id AND every day i have to mail for 100 persons.
if there any way to mark or flag a non-exisisant email id.
please help me, because i dont want to irretate people sending same message again and again.
Thank you
i lost my mail
SO FRUSTRATED WITH GOOGLE/GMAIl There is NO way to access support it’s ridiculous. Have spent an hour trying to get some help even called Head office of Google in California and was told very Rudely, by a robotic sounding and unsupportive woman “there is no phone support.” Period. Ya that makes perfect sense??????
Someone created a g-mail address using my work email address and subsequently sent out hate emails to just about everyone in my deparment. The email was made to appear as coming directly from me. I would like to find out what steps I can take to find out the real owner of the g-mail account. Thank you for your help.
pleace close my gmail id my frieand incorrect urs my ih
I keep going to my inbox {I have Msn} and I can’t open any messages except the first on the list, which automatically pops up when I sign in. I can’t delete it to go to the next message or do anything at all on that page, it just freezes up.
There is NO ‘create groups tab’ on my gmail.
Hi. I am a tech working for a client who has had their identity stolen via the internet. We have discovered (via the browser history) that someone HERE IN THE OFFICE had been using a gmail account. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED using the office machines, and is considered theft of time and resources. I have saved the history folder and index.dat files. Can you help us to find out more information on this gmail account?
Thans much!
Mr. Hawk
minuteman computer services
web56k@totalusa.net
Hi,
How can I get the checked date and time of an Email message in Gmail. Please help me ASAP as it is an urgent requirement.
Thanks and regards,
Rahman
Hi
I am not sure if this would help, but any assistance will. Someone has changed our gmail password, I have completed the form on the “take over”, I have submitted it and now Gmail wrote to me stating that they have disabled my account. We are running a touring business, and now this gmail address is on all our brochures. How can I possibly get the email address back and just reset the password.
regards
Anel
Dave,
My Gmail is down. I am unable to log in with my user name and password. I have done everything I have found to do on the gmail home page. Who can I contact to get it up and running. I use this for school, so I have been without for 2 days. Thank you! please respond to my hotmail as that is that is the only way for communication. chrisbarry71@hotmail.com
thank you! Christine
I have set up many gmail in my time, but I just set one up and every time if anyone sends email to it, this is the error I get. I get the email, but why do I get undeliverable error msg? please help!!
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
linipdp@gmail.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550-5.1.1 This Gmail user does not exist. Please try double-checking
550-5.1.1 the recipient’s email address for typos or unnecessary spaces.
550-5.1.1 Learn more at
550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 c36si790430rvf.28
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from handrolls ( [74.87.20.205])
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:31:59 -0700 (PDT)
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From: llinipdp@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:31:59 -0700 (PDT)
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Sat 22nd March 2008 Karin from South Australia glad2bvegetarian@yahoo.com.au
Dear Dave! (Sorry if I may have sent this one twice, but I’m not very experienced yet, I hope you understand, Yours gratefully Karin
1) I hope that I’m here on the correct web site and that you can help me!
2) Does your service cost anything? (I really need to know, as I am only on a pension and I do not have a credit card. (I still use an old fashioned cheque Book).
3) I have tried and keep on trying to create a new E-mail Address in G-mail as well as in hotmail, but again and again I’m constantly informed, that my user name and password do not match. Then I have to start all over again, and it repeats itself on and on. Why is that, when I’m 100 percent sure, that I typed in the correct ones?
4) Is it possible to be able to change an e-mail address user name? And if yes, how? (Also how can I delete the old e-mail address and old password? (Esp. when I forgot my password)?
5) I really wonder, is this finally the e-mail to get onto the gmail and hotmail teams??? I actually had wanted to e-mail them directly!
6) Is there a toll-free Phone No to any of those?
7) I used to once have an msn e-mail address which was (kbasse@msn.com and so I used to be able to get into msn messenger, but that too, doesn’t seem to work any more. It
Always seems to be the same. When I want to get into msn or create a new hotmail account for myself, suddenly my user name and password doesn’t match, why? ? ? I’m really desperate, what to do?
8) I sincerely need to know, what I can do, as I am a great Fan of Andre Rieu, (You know, the new Walz King and his wonderful
Johann Strauss Orchestra AND CHOIR? Andre Rieu is that wonderful Violinist/Conductor from Holland. He is reviving all the music of the composers of many years and centuries ago, such as Mozart and many others).
9) Therefore I really want to be able to join in on the Aussie Fan Website, so I can talk with others here in Australia as well as oversee.
10) I am originally from Hamburg, West Germany, and I even discovered a wonderful Andre Rieu Fan Website in msn in Germany, which I would really love to join in, but how can I, when I’m not even able to access msn or google or hotmail in any way shape or form???
11) I’m on broadband, (still with bigpond, but only til around 10th April 2008, After that date my BIgpond Contract with Telstra runs out, (thank goodness), because that one is very
Expensive. (That’s why I gave you my web-based Yahoo e-mail address).
12) My Commuter is an Acer, with Windows XP, but I use Office 2000, (because I love that little Office assistant the genius, or Professor Einstein), Although I know, he is only an animated figure, I love him, and don’t want to be without him any more. He is so funny, (I think you know, what I mean)?
13) I also have an office clipboard, which I use all the time, (although it only has about 12 fields in it, in which to copy into, (you know this select, copy and paste)? But it seems to me, that Microsoft doesn’t really want me to remain in Office 2000, and so my computer screen keeps freezing up, (especially when I try to copy a website into it). Keeps on freezing up, and then I can’t do a thing, accept try to press CTRL, ALT and Delete key on my keybord, all at the same time, which then brings up the task manager.
14) After I try to delete some from the task manager, all my word documents disappear, and even when I have saved them in my Document Folder, I often still cannot find them any more, I wonder why that is, (even when my
word documents have been backed up)
15) As you can imagine, especially after I have worked on a Word Document for many hours, for it to suddenly disappear, and then having to start all over again, is indeed very time
consuming and frustrating, so what am I doing wrong, that this constantly happens to me? ? ?
16) Am I the only one, (that these horrible things I mentioned here), seem to happen to? Or have you received also complaints like mine from others? I just wonder about that>—
17) My current Anti-Virus Protection Program is McCafee.
18) In spite of being on broadband, it seems to be very slow, I wonder why?
19) I hope I have been able to give you all the info, that you need, and that you can help me with advice or suggestions of what I can best do.
20) I thank you kindly in advance for your (hopefully) positive Reply
Yours truly Karin from South Australia.
glad2bvegetarian@yahoo.com.au
I have been using gmail for a long time and am having a problem with the newer version of gmail. The problem being when I forward an email that contains an image, the image does not transmit with the email but all of the text appears. Now when I use the older version to forward the same email the image does transmit to its destination. So the pain in the ass is that every time I open my gmail it defaults to using the newer version. Is there a fix for this?
I changed my internet service from AOL to Road Runner. I was told that my Club Pogo could still be used with my new provider but so far have not been successful. I have tried to just cancel my membership through the phone but I am unable to talk to a person only a computer. What a run around. They are still deducting the fee from my checking account. Please tell me what I can do next. I am at my wits end that isn’t pretty. Please e mail me with amy suggestions you might have. Thank You
I HAVE GMAIL BUT IT TAKES SO LONG TO LOAD THAT I JUST SAY FORGET IT MANY TIMES.
I DO HAVE DIAL UP BUT OUTLOOK LOAD UP PRETTY FAST,SO DOES PEOPLE WEB MAIL.
THANKS BERNIE.
hi dave,
i am in trouble when sending e-mails as attatchment. it says gmail is unable to connect network,pls check your internet connection. accordingly i contact with my net provider they said it is not their fault the connection is ok. please help me how can i get rid of that prob. by the way i am using a dial up connection, but it dose not have any problem when i use hotmail account. i am look forward for your prescriptions. thank you so much . Nazir
Dave: I want to copy a hyperlink from an email I received and then insert it in an email I creat for my family, but when I do this the recipents cannot open the hyperlink and get a page to sign up for a gmail account. How can I send copied web site addresses/hyperlinks and send them to friends without this problem?
thanks giani
Tony, Emily, these sort of questions are answered elsewhere on my site. For example, you can get lots of info about Google Mail with this link:
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_gmail.html
and Emily, here’s an article specifically addressing how to work with Web Clips within Gmail:
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/what_are_gmail_web_clips.html
Hope that those are helpful!
I want to set up Web Clips , but there is no option to add clips in the settings menu. Where have all the good tabs gone? There’s a piping hot chai (or iced, however you prefer) in it for you, Dave.
HELP! How do i add a new contact to my GMAIL.
Thank you
As I use only my cell phone to access the Internet, it is not possible to spend much time onlne. Is there a way that I can use Eudora or Outlook Express online with Gmail only to send new email and download received messages and do all reading, replying and creating offline?? If so, can you tell me how to set it up? I haven’t had any luck with this. Thanks for your prompt response to this matter.
hi Dave
I got an email at gmail to my inbox … there was this window that open above the google talk icon at the quick lunch bar, clicked on it … read the email ..but then went to my gmail account and could not find this email there.
Please help me as this email is very important … is there a way I can get it back and what to do in the future to avoid this happening
regards
Can you tell me how to display my messages in my gmail inbox. The toolbars are showing but not the messages. My conversation view must be disabled somehow for the last 3 days.
Thanks
Dave,
I have a question.
I opened an email that I received from an organization that contained internal links to it (If you click on the link, it takes you to a different part of the email a.k.a. anchors i.e. back to top). I decided to forward the email to my friend (and myself), upon clicking on the same link in the forwarded version, the system opened up a new internet window that said Gmail instead of taking me to the desired part of the email.
Do you know why this would happen and a way to fix this?
Thank you,
Ron Balofsky
Not a comment, but a question . . . I have a gmail account and have never had any problems until recently. Now all of a sudden I am getting delivery failure notifications for all these addresses that I have sent nothing to. What going on? And how can I stop it???
Help!!!!
why can I not get into my email. it is telling that my password is not right i have use this e mail all the time
i can’t get to gmail and i really need it! i am so frustrated, and i can’t get a person on the phone at google. i thought i loved gmail but now i’m not sure at all.
I have a problem getting my e-mail open. it says loading and that is it.. I have re-booted my computer and everything I don’t know what is wrong with my gmail
hi, i recently used paypal for a club pogo year subscription (£23.99) and i still not a member. i cant find anywhere a help line or a costumer services nothing! club pogo used to be a free games from aol but now we have to pay to play. paypal said they’ve sent the money and it was debit on my bank account twice, becouse on my first attempt i had ea games email adress wrong. well im
I,TOO AM FRUSTRATED BY CLUB POGO..I HOPE YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND A PHONE # OR ADD…IT IS SO FRUSTRATING AND I JUST CHANGED TO HIGH SPD AND SO FAR WELL I NEED HELP TO GET ON POGO LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE SO MAYBE EVEN IF YOU DONT KNOW SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT AND PLEASE IF YOU DO..PLS EMAIL ME
Marla, this is an obvious one, but make sure that the date and time on your computer is set properly. If you’re way off, valid sites can seem to have invalid certificates!
I have a gmail account and i have been unable to even open my account due to some warning that keeps popping up about an expired security certificate. Even when I try to bypass it, the website just loops into this never ending cycle of tyring to open but never does. Do you have any answers or solutions to this problem? This is one thing I don’t like about gmail. I don’t feel that there is any support if there are problems…but I do like gmail for the most part. thanks for you time.
I’m afraid I don’t have a clue what “Club Pogo” is so I cannot advise you further, Vera.
i have signed up for club pogo on my desktop but my laptop want let me get on. says cookie error. i have checked everything and can not get on. can you help me please? thank you vera howell
Dave am e-mailing you because I can not get a message through to ClubPogo.com..I can not find a ph# or e-mail address that works anywhere on their game site…Thought maybe Google could help me with this as they carry the game site..I recently gave Pogo a credit card # to play their games but am having difficulty with them…could you please help with locating them…ClubPogo.Com does not work…Thank-you Nancy