Virus Checking/Removal
• If Gmail thinks your mail attachment has a virus, it will attempt to clean the file or remove it. But if it detects a virus and can't remove it, then you won't be able to download or send it.

Gmail Limitations
• You cannot send or receive emails with exe, dll, ocx, com or bat attachments (Could be a virus)
• Sending attachments: The Fix
• Rename the file:
• Change the file extension. For example… Rename Adobe-Reader.exe to Adobe-Reader.exe.removeme

Does Google read your Gmail?
• Google scans the text of Gmail messages in order to filter spam and detect viruses, just as all major webmail services do. Google also uses this scanning technology to deliver targeted text ads and other related information. This is completely automated and involves no humans.

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How to get a Gmail account
• Go to Google search Google.ca And click on Gmail
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• Click Sign up for Gmail

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• Choose your desired login name and check for availability.
• Be assertive. Keep trying until you get a name you want.

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Setting Up Gmail
• How to Export Address Book from OE
  • In OE Click on File, Export, Address Book.
  • Now click on Text File (Comma Separated Values) And Export

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  Under Save exported file as:
  • Type “Contacts” and click Browse, Desktop, and then Save,
  • Next and then Finish.
  • Click OK when the Address book export process has completed.
  • Then click Close.
  Now logon to your Gmail account.
  • Click on Contacts
  • Click on Import

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  • Click on Browse and find Contacts on the desktop
  • Click on Contacts.csv
  • Click Open
  • Click Import

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  • Click Import.

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  • You are done!

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  To add a Contact
  • Click on the + one head
  • Type in the information
  • Click Save.

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  To make a Contact Group
  • Click on the + two heads
  • Type in the name for the group
  • Lets use “test” for now…And click OK.
  • Click All Contacts
  • Scroll down clicking in the box beside the contact you wish to be in the group
  • Then Click on Groups

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  • Then under ADD to…
  • Click on the group “test”

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  • Done!

Gmail Labels (OE Folders)
• To make folders in Gmail you make Labels.
• Click on Settings
• Click on Labels
• And in the box, Create a new label:
• Type in your Label.
• Now go back to your inbox.
• OK we have an email in the Inbox.
• Click on the box and click on More Actions.

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• Find “Test”, the Label you want it in, and click on “Test”
• To store it click on Archive.
• Now when you want to retrieve the emails in the Test label,
• you click on Test on the left lower part of the page.
• You can click on the box to the right of the Labels and choose a colour for the Label group.

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Search Gmail
• Type in your search argument and click on Search.
• Gmail searches all your emails and shows you all the hits.

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Use Outlook Express (OE) through Gmail
• Click on Settings
• Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP
• Make your choice on which POP to enable,
• Click on Configuration instructions.

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• Choose your email client, click on Outlook Express (OE was demoed)

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• I prefer configure your client manually
• So click on that.
• Follow the instructions exactly as shown, or it will not work for you.
• Don’t forget to click “Save Changes” after enabling POP in Gmail.
• Return to your OE and click on Tools, Accounts, Mail
• clicking on your new Gmail account to highlight it.
• And then click on Set as default.

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• Now when you send an email in OE, it will send from your Gmail.
• This way when your contacts send you an email to your OE account
• You get it in OE and can answer back with your Gmail account
• and ask them to use your new Gmail address. You can still answer
• with your OE account by clicking on the blue arrow and choosing it.

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Next meeting [February 12th, 2008] we will look at more features of Gmail.

Charlie LeBer