Friday, July 11, 2008

Log Off Email Feature

Teachers and staff are really busy each day. Have you ever been interupted while checking your email and have to do another task? Hours later, have you ever wondered if you logged off of your email from your school computer? Many of us have! Our new email has a great feature that will allow you to log off of all email sesssions from a single computer. Yes! you can log off the email on your school computer from home. Here are the steps.

Open your email account. Once you are logged in, scroll down to the bottom of the page.

You will see the statement below: (your screen will have actual numbers instead of the x's in the example below)

Last account activity: x minutes ago at this IP (xx.xx.xxx.xxx). Details.

Click on the Details link.

A screen will appear that shows the IP Address (Computer Id) of every place that you have used your email.


Click on the "Sign Out All Other Sessions" tab.

THIS WILL SIGN YOUR ACCOUNT OFF AT ANY OTHER LOCATION THAT YOU USED EMAIL!




Saturday, July 5, 2008

Search Mail Features

The Search Mail feature is located at the top of your email account. Once you have successfully logged in to your account, the box will be located to the right of the

You can use Meck Mail search the same way you'd use Google Search, by entering a word (or multiple words) that appears anywhere within the message you want to locate.

If you're looking for a message that contains the word science, simply type science in the search field and press Search Mail. Your results will be displayed with your search terms highlighted in yellow.

The new system doesn't recognize special search characters like square brackets, parentheses, currency symbols, the ampersand, the pound sign, and asterisks. It also doesn't recognize partial or similar matches, so a search for travel will find travel, but not travels, traveler, or travle.

If you're having trouble finding the result you want, you can refine your query by clicking Show search options next to the search box, and entering your criteria in the appropriate fields

For more information click on the link below to access the Google Mail Help Center.

Click here to access the help center.