Many time I have seen some important emails landing into my spam folder in my GMail account. I am sure you might have also faced the same situation. Well, now this won’t happen as GMail has a new spam filter. Now you will be able to mark your important emails so that they do not land up in your spam folder.

Click on Settings link on the top right corner after logging into your GMail account.

Now click Filters Tab and then on Create New Filter.

Suppose you have subscribed to the General Motors newsletter which is sent weekly to you from the email info@gm.com. All you have to do is enter that email in the From field and click Next Step. You can fill up other fields as per your requirements.

Check the Never Send it to Spam checkbox and click Create Filter.

Your filter is ready and now no email which comes from the address info@gm.com will land into spam folder. Happy mailing!

Last time I revealed how someone can read your emails by enabling the forward emails feature in your Gmail. Today I have another small tip for you which will help you to safeguard your Gmail account from being hacked.

Check your address bar when you are logged in your Gmail account.

You will see the address to be:

http://mail.google.com/mail/

Change this address to:

https://mail.google.com/mail/

Did you notice a the https in the second URL? This simple https will encrypt all the sessions and no one will be able to read the cookies which Gmail creates. Your Gmail account is safe from hackers now!

Well, this tip actually helps in cases if somehow a hacker is able to get to the settings of your gmail account. So I would request you to regularly check your settings so that you are content that no one else is busy using your mailbox along with you.

The above image shows the link which takes you to the settings page of your gmail account. Then as shown in image below click on “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” and choose the Disable Forwarding radio button in case it isn’t chosen.

There might be cases when you are using the forwarding feature from before as per your convenience but I would request you to keep a check if the mails are being forwarded to the account to which you want it to be forwarded to. Who knows if someone is forwarding your mails to some other mail box of his!

Before we start you need to change your Gmail settings so that keyboard shortcuts are enabled. On the top right corner of your inbox you will find the link to settings and that will take you to the page shown above in image.

Browse through mails

K: to move the black arrow upwards.

J: to move the black arrow downwards.

enter key: this is to open the mail which is indicated by black arrow

While reading the email

R: to reply to the mail

F: to forward the mail

!: to mark the mail as spam

s: to star the mail

#: to send the mail to trash

How to get back to inbox once mail is read

U: this brings you back to inbox if you were reading your mail

How to send an email

C: this takes you to compose the email