Google mail, Gmail, is one of the most widely used email platforms in the world, as it is one of those that offers the greatest number of functions, all of them completely free. In addition, it is necessary to have a Google account to be able to use an Android smartphone. If we use our Gmail account as the main one to communicate via email, we must try to avoid a series of common errors that can ruin our user experience.
If you want to prevent Gmail from becoming chaos, then we show you what we must take into account to avoid it.
Errors when using Gmail
If we do not want our main communication tool via email to be more of a problem than a solution, we just have to follow a series of tips.
Organize emails in folders
If we want to always have all the emails accessible and that our Gmail account is not in chaos, we must organize them by folders, either by dragging them or by creating rules so that Gmail automatically takes care of organizing them as we receive them.
Periodically empty the SPAM folder
If we use our Gmail account for everything, it is more than likely that the number of SPAM emails that we receive in our account is very high, so high that they can cause space problems in our account, if we do not have additional space to the 15 GB that the platform makes available to us completely free of charge for Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive.
Delete attachments
In addition to the SPAM folder, also take into account the attachments, especially if we receive many. Gmail allows us to search for attachments of a certain space and thus be able to locate them quickly to eliminate them and save space that is being used uselessly.
Do not click on any link
The different rules for filtering SPAM that Gmail integrates allow us to filter most of the emails that seek to obtain our personal data, from any of our accounts or access our PC through malicious software. However, this filter is not perfect and there is always the possibility that some other email of this type slips into the inbox. If we do not know the sender, we must put curiosity aside and not click on the link.
Do not open attachments
Just as we must avoid clicking on any link we receive via email, we must also avoid opening the attached files, which is another of the methods used by friends of others to camouflage malware that infects our computer, even if it is a Word document, an image or a PDF.
delete sent messages
Related to the previous section, another aspect that we must take into account if we seek to free up space in our Gmail account is to delete the sent emails of which we are no longer interested in keeping a copy of our account, especially if they include attachments for, by the way, free up space in our account.
Block unsafe senders
If we have gotten tired of receiving emails from a certain company or person every day and if, despite having requested that they unsubscribe us, we continue to receive them, the only option left to us is to block the sender from the email options. In this way, from that moment on, all emails sent to us will go directly to the trash can.
