Questions tagged [gmail]
For issues specific to the Gmail app, AKA Google Mail. For another mail app use the tag specific to it or, if none found, the generic 'email' tag.
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Override sender address in GMail app for non-Google mailbox
There's a popular 3rd-party mail provider and for some time they don't provide OAuth2 auth scheme and resort to regular password. This mail provider was known to authors of Gmail when OAuth2 was still ...
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Microsoft Exchange emails not syncing with gmail app
I have a Moto g8 with Android 10. I use default gmail app to read my phone's gmail account as well as my two work emails (both MS Exchange/Outlook). I do not use the Outlook app for the latter.
I have ...
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Is a standalone periodic email checker app feasible?
I bought my first smartphone in 2012. I had one motivation for doing so: my clients, instead of ringing me, were increasingly emailing me. I had to have a computer "to go" to respond in a ...
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Cannot add additional Google account for Gmail on Android 13-based phone
I am trying to add an additional Google account to Gmail on an Android 13-based phone. While adding an account, I asked for a security code. But when I try to enter the value of the security code (10 ...
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Multiple notifications
This started with the latest update about a month ago. It first started with getting no notifications. Now i get multiple notifications for each email. They used to be grouped together. Samsung s23. ...
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Why am I getting a separate notification for each incoming e-mail?
I recently did a factory reset on my Pixel 6a (running Android 14). Now I find that I get a separate notification in the notification shade for each incoming e-mail. So, for example, if five e-mails ...
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Inactive menu bar on Android Gmail when invoked by sharing a file
On Android, when I try to share e.g. an image file from the gallery via the Share button and select Gmail from the options, Gmail pops up with a fresh email, with the image attached. I can edit the &...
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Why my Gmail app keep hang up?
For about three months, Gmail started to hang up whenever I tried to compose or reply to emails. I thought battery optimization was the problem, so I made Gmail not restricted by any battery ...
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I want to receive Google Chat messages from my work account but I don't want work emails showing up in my Gmail app
I use the Gmail app on my phone for my personal accounts. My work uses Google Chat and Gmail for all communications. The problem is, adding my work account for Chat causes it to also bring in my work ...
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Gmail notifications stopped working (Android 9)
There are already questions about this, but they are quite old and the answers didn't work for me, so I think there should be a separate question for newer Android versions. Also in my case it's ...
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How to let Gmail access storage?
When I try to "Share" using Gmail the file never gets attached and I always get the same error: "Gmail needs storage permission to complete action".
However it then directs me to ...
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How to edit/send a previously sent gmail message as a new one on Android?
Something well known to be unsupported on the official gmail.com website and official app.
The typical answer in that case, is go on Microsoft Windows to install an imap client like Thunderbird which ...
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How to fix Gmail that won't get new messages from IMAP server
My wife has a cheap oangcc android tablet bought from Amazon.
She uses it to check her email on Google, and on a local Cyrus-
IMAP server.
It has worked fine for years, but now won't collect new mail ...
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Why gmail android app stops syncing on an approximately 2-3 monthly basis?
I know, this is a decades old question, answered on million sites, still none of this Q/A's match my case: I regularly have to delete the storage of the gmail app on my android (9.0-pie) device in ...
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Without back up info and unable to receive verification code,, how can I access my Google account
I cannot access my Google account because I lost my back up info and I cannot receive a verification code, because I no longer have access to my old phone. How can I get into my Google account?
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