Chapter 7. Setting Up Gmail

To many users, Gmail is one of the most important programs in Google Apps, if not the most important. With a good understanding of Gmail’s settings, it’s possible to customize how this powerful and innovative program works in a way that’s most productive for you.

To customize Gmail, click Settings in the upper-right corner of the program. When you go to Gmail’s Settings, you should see the following tabs: General, Accounts, Labels, Filters, Forwarding and POP/IMAP, Chat, and Web Clips. You might also see Labs if your Google Apps administrator has enabled it (and we’ll talk about how to enable it later in this chapter, at “Labs,” if it’s not already enabled).

Keep in mind that after you start playing with ...

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