Gmail - Can I Do This?

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I've got five unused gmail accounts, and I actually would like to use one for a secondary account for myself. (I want a webmail account with my real name that I can give to potential freelance clients.) I'd like to know if I can send an invite to my work email. Does that work, or does the system "know" you're trying to cheat it???

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no you should be able to create multiple accounts just fine

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you can do it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

five unused gmail accounts

For "accounts" read "invites". Also, that would leave 4 invites unused - wasn't someone asking for one? Lemme know.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it doesn't.. you can even send invite to a completely bogus address - and then click on the link using the outgoing email in your g-mail "sent mail" folder.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

at the start i gave myself a few different gmail accounts (just cos i can) and now each one of them have 6 invites each!! i now have about 20 invites!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's almost as if gmail WANT people to swamp their servers with EMPEEFREEZ

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Gmail is the new P2P!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If you, or anybody else, had any gmail invites you just didn't know what to do with, I'd be appreciative of one..

sighcompany[at]hotmail.com

― chopher, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

is there any way to find the unread messages buried amongst the 3600+ in my inbox?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I understand. If they're unread, won't the word "inbox" be bold and it will show the number of unread messages in parentheses after it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I mean, not that that negates anything you're saying. I just don't understand why you would have messages that you haven't read.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

i DO.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Click Select: Unread and then apply a label or Add Star to them?

Not that I have any experience dealing with that amount of emails

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's having read all of your messages that i can't understand.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I have 7441 e-mails in my Gmail account!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

and you have read them all?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Of course I've read them all. Or at least clicked on them. This is baffling to me. So you guys get e-mails in your inbox and then just ... don't click on them?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

every day.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

stuff I'll get to later, stuff I can't be bothered to delete.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

mailing list circulars, invites, articles,etc.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Weird. At the very least, there's a certain amount of satisfaction in clicking on each e-mail to make the bold go away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but the bold serves a purpose!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Click Select: Unread and then apply a label or Add Star to them?

this only works for the emails that are on your screen at the moment, and the most you can display is 100.

I don't think I understand. If they're unread, won't the word "inbox" be bold and it will show the number of unread messages in parentheses after it?

I think this functionality disappears if you go for a long time without ever reading the messages. I could be wrong, though.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Usually when I open up Gmail and have X amount of new messages, I'll click on the oldest one and then just scroll through by clicking "Newer" -- even if I don't thoroughly read each one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

unasked question: how do you know you've got unread messages?

I'm not certain I do, but my gmail notifier extension in firefox says I have 2 and it's driving me nuts.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Weird. At the very least, there's a certain amount of satisfaction in clicking on each e-mail to make the bold go away.

hahahaha totally

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I have to do this at work because I cant stand having 250923485094 unread emails in my archives/inbox

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I found the answer!

search for "is:unread" and it will come up with all unread msgs.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

is anybody else getting a crazy amount of spam, lately?

― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:22 (sixteen years ago)

more than usual

― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

doyou mean other than the stuff that goes straight into my spam box? not noticed any, did get one last night. i never check the spam box.

― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i was thinking just this morning that the spam filter hasn't been keeping as much of the riff raff out lately.

― some dude, Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

YES. Fake twitter stuff, microsoft stuff.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:02 (sixteen years ago)

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