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How to filter gmail notifications in iOS/watchOS without smart features/personalisation?

I'd like to find a way to only be notified on my iPhone & watch when a specific list of people contact me on gmail. Is there any way to do this without enabling "smart features & ...
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How do I create a bookmark to a specific Gmail message when reading Gmail inside Chrome running on macOS?

There are answers to my question on the Web, but they appear to be for people running Chrome on an OS other than macOS. Here is one. The problem seems to be the URL in the address bar (is that the ...
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Why doesn't Apple Mail let me move a message when viewing it in a Smart Mailbox?

I use Apple Mail as an IMAP client for my Gmail account. I have a few Smart Mailboxes that I use regularly, e.g. "Today", "Yesterday", etc. If I'm browsing the contents of a smart ...
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How to setup Smart Mailbox to exclude messages only in Gmail's Archive?

Running Mail.app on Ventura 13.4.1 I use Gmail and have about a dozen Gmail Labels I use for different types of email. I'm trying to setup a Smart Mailbox in Mail.app that will show me all the emails ...
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Mac Mail Archive folder suddenly nonfunctional

Using gmail address through mac mail on imac OS 13.4.1, firefox browser. A couple days ago, I am suddenly unable to "archive" items from the inbox. When I try, they just all pop back into ...
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How to send simple one line emails on macOS from command line to/from gmail? [duplicate]

My need is simple, I want something with this functionality: echo 'hello' | mail -s 'test' [email protected] The above currently works and mail is able to send to an icloud email and sends via some ...
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Mac Mail sometimes sending my message as attachment rather than as body

I have a Gmail supported business account, but all logins are done through Gmail, and I use Mac Mail on Ventura 13.3.1. I have had a number of people tell me that sometimes when my mails arrive in ...
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Why won't my Apple Mail forward rule forward a Proton Mail email message?

On macOS 13.1 (Ventura) I have an Apple Mail rule that is setup to Forward a received email to a specific email address. In addition to forward, it will set the color of the message. I have tested the ...
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Keychain has wrong Gmail Password. Apple Mail Is Still Working But I Can't Find the Password to Log in the Webmail Interface

Somehow I think I overwrote my password in the keychain with the wrong password for my Gmail account. Somehow Apple Mail is still allowing me to access my account. I still need this Gmail password for ...
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Setting Mail app rules when using gmail account AND iCloud account

I'm having a problem. I recently subscribed to a daily newsletter of the MIT. Added to that I have some other newletters from news websites. Resulting in an average of 10-20 Mail messages per day. I ...
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Is it possible to receive notifications for incoming email on Mac without Mail.app being open?

I use the Gmail web page for email, but I would like to receive Mac system notifications for incoming email. I don't want to enable notifications for Safari for lots of reasons, so I thought I'd just ...
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Cmd+I randomly opens outlook.com in Chrome (not my default browser)

I am perplexed for a few reasons: My default browser is set to Vivaldi so I don't understand why clicking Cmd+I in Vivaldi sends me to outlook in Chrome I have set Cmd+I in Vivaldi to be "...
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2 Computers, multiple email accounts; removing Mail app storage on old laptop

I have 2 MacBooks: One that is I use, and one that my kids share, but that used to be my old personal one. I have kept my Admin account on that laptop. It's running out of Storage space, and I noticed ...
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How do I limit the number of emails downloaded in Apple Mail for iOS 16?

After several years with an Android phone, I have an iPhone again. I have a few Gmail accounts, as well as an iCloud account (from years ago). I connected one Gmail account, and the iCloud account is ...
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How can i uninstall (and reinstall) misbehaving Preview on Mac?

Previously I took screenshots with Preview (comes with Mac), then embedded those images inline in text body of gmails. Suddenly now, Gmail insisting on their being attachments only, and often the ...
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Does iCloud+ with custom domain support plus addressing in email addresses?

I am considering migrating from Google Workspace to iCloud+. On the email front, I have a domain and I use "plus addressing" in my Google managed email addresses. For example, one user ...
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Configure iOS Gmail.app to open links in Safari.app (not internal browser)?

I have Safari set as my "Browser" in "Default Apps" in Gmail.app's "Settings". When I open a link in Gmail, it opens an internal browser instead of the Safari.app. How ...
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Stop Gmail pop-up ad "Google recommends using Chrome"

Often, when I open gmail.com in Safari for macOS, I get the following obtrusive pop-up ad in the corner of my email app: Google recommends using Chrome Easily search on Google with the fast, secure ...
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How do I make the Mail app on iPhone save my sent messages to the Gmail's sent folder?

My iPhone has iOS 16.1. In the standard Mail app I use my Gmail account as my primary / only mail account. When I send email from this account it doesn't get stored in Gmail's Sent folder, but it does ...
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GMail App showing Mobile number instead of contact name

I have a contact whose emails received or sent show as a mobile number (not her real one) as the contact name in GMail on the iPhone. I searched my contacts for that number. It existed only as a Siri-...
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MSMTP on Monterey: msmtp: no recipients found

I have MSMTP running flawlessly on four Raspberry Pies. I use it to send email from shell scripts. It works fine as a SMTP client. I installed MSMTP and mailutils on an M1 iMac via MacPorts. I ...
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How to recover previous version of password from Keychain on macOS

Safari suggested to use strong password which I gladly accepted for one of my internet accounts. Then after I logged in and logged out I forgot that I changed password and used old pass to login back ...
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Gmail's mails on Apple mail app keep going to archive and not going through rules

So, I am currently running MacOS Ventura Public beta and I don't know if this is because I'm running the public beta, but most of my emails that I receive on my gmail account gets moved to archive ...
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Removing an unwanted iCloud.com alias address "This is an alias of your Apple ID email address" error

I've been using my Apple ID since 2017 with "[email protected]". In an experiment to use iCloud custom domains I created "[email protected]" which is now tied to the account as Alias. I ...
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Turn off receiving emails from main iCloud email address?

I would like to use an iCloud email alias instead of my main iCloud email address because the main one does a terrible job at filtering spam messages. I also can't stand the email address name that I ...
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How does Apple Mail download Gmail messages via IMAP in real time?

I don't know how Gmail is capable of pushing the email to the phone as I don't think IMAP supports push to iOS. How’s it possible that iPhone receives emails from a personal Gmail account in near real ...
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How does Apple Mail actually track coloured messages flags?

NB. I'm purely asking out of curiosity, flags sync correctly for me on both iOS and macOS using a GMail account. In macOS/iOS Mail you can assign different coloured flags (orange, red, violet, blue, ...
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macOS Mail app: is there a way to prevent local storage?

I'd like to use the macOS Mail app for a few different reasons. But each time Mail launches (say, after clicking a mailto: link or if I'm taking a look at app preferences), the app begins downloading ...
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Email date lost after moving mailboxes from Gmail to Exchange using Apple Mail

My university has decided to move its working platform from Google to Microsoft and has asked everyone to manually move emails from Gmail to Microsoft Exchange using third-party software. I chose to ...
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How can I use my Google Account with Apple apps (Mail, Calendar, etc) in OS X 10.10 and older?

For months, Google has been warning me that I "may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology". The warnings directed to this page with more information. Starting on ...
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Gmail in Mail on iOS 10?

I have an old iPhone 5 with iOS 10. When trying to login to a Gmail account in the Settings app in order to use the Mail app I get this from Google: Error 403: disallowed_useragent You can’t sign in ...
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How to add a Google account without triggerfing facial recognition or other biometrics?

There are several gmail accounts on an iPhone already but adding a particular account generates an error. All that I seem to get is a generic error message about security. Logging in via a browser on ...
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Removed Google account keeps coming back

I'm trying to remove an old Google account from macOS. I remove it from Internet Accounts in System Preferences and then confirm I want to remove it from all computers using iCloud Keychain. Then ...
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Apple Mail with Gmail, via OAuth

I would like to use Apple Mail on Mac OS to access my email account on Gmail. How do I set this up, without using an app password (i.e., via OAuth)? Unfortunately, I am unable to create an app ...
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How can I export and important Notes stored on Gmail?

My phone has crashed and reset. my latest backup if from 2019. the only data I have left from the past two years are the notes which are stored also in Gmail. I still didn't re-install the phone and ...
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How can I stop getting notifications about signing into my Google account?

I've tried configuring my laptop to sync my calendar and contacts, but not my mail, with my Google account. Now I've started to get notifications asking me to log into my Google account, but when I ...
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Deleting IMAP emails in bulk from Mac Mail

I can delete single (or several) emails at a time in Mac Mail (Monterey) in my IMAP connected Gmail account. They go to the Bin/Trash as expected and I will clear that up every once in a while. All ...
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Calendar: Receiving Google calendar invites as email, not in iOS calendar app

My girlfriend has a Gmail set up on her iPhone, attached to her AppleID of the same email address. Her Google Calendar is synced with iOS Calendar and works a treat. The issue is, when she sends me an ...
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How do I get macOS Mail not to show remote content in Gmail/Exchange’s spam folder?

For some reason, macOS Mail on Monterey will display remote content for messages in the Spam folder of both my Gmail and Exchange accounts. This is of course unfortunate because the spammer then knows ...
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How to properly set email signature icon on Mail App?

I added my logo in Gmail signature like so: it renders perfectly crystal clear, before sent, and after arrived on the other end. I send it to myself and opened it on my MacBook, it looks perfect as ...
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Gmail can no longer search and those TLS handshakes make it freeze

Firefox 95.0.2, OS 12.1 Since Big Sur gmail has been acting weird. For one thing, it never stops loading. The hourglass never goes away. Also the empty boxes next to each email now no longer appear,...
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Why I can no longer create *separate* Gmail Desktop apps?

I used to have a few "Desktop Apps" for Gmail created as shortcuts, following these steps: ⠇(top right) > More tools > Create Shortcut > Open as Window I'd then have one app per ...
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Backup email+attachment and keep proof that they were not not altered

Say I want to download an email with an attachment (e.g. from Gmail) to back it up on a drive, and delete forever from the mail program (mailbox/archive/trash etc.) To back up the usual way I can ...
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What has happened to the Gmail app for Mac OS X?

I used a mail app on my MacBook Pro for 6+ years that I am convinced was called Gmail. Its icon resembled that of Gmail for iOS. I had lots of mail stored in folders on my local computer. My Mac ...
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Mail server settings always gets an error

I wanted to add an iCloud address in gmail. I've entered everything correctly, hoping to show SMTP setting. But instead, it shows incorrect username and password, even also got stuck in the loading ...
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Preventing HEIC conversion to JPG when sharing pictures to Gmail app on iPhone

When in gallery and sharing an image via Gmail, it gets converted to a JPG file instead of staying as an HEIC image. Is there any way to have this behave differently?
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For Mail.app, is it possible to "start" with an existing POP account for email and merge the mailbox with a new IMAP?

I've been using POP to download Gmail to Mail.app since I made the account in 2009. Now, Google required me to use 2-step authentication, meaning I also can only use IMAP for my Google account on my ...
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iCloud mail not notifying on iPhone

I'm using iCloud mail, and everything is connected just fine. I have a Mac with the stock Mac Mail app, and I receive messages very quickly after they're sent, like normal. On my iPhone (8 with OS 15....
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Cannot connect to my Google accounts anymore

I'm on macOS 10.13.6 and Mail just started to prompt me to authenticate to connet to my two gmail accounts. So I did, using two-factor-authentication, everything seemed to work fine until the last ...
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Lost iPhone notes, Gmail account

I recently migrated from an iPhone 5s to an iPhone 12 Mini on 8/30/21. I have a few Notes accounts, some of which are linked to certain gmail accounts (so within a few minutes of my writing a note on ...
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