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Phishing is a common scam tactic to trick you into revealing sensitive data by visiting a fraudulent website, opening an infected document, or logging in to "validate your email account."

How-Tos

University of Minnesota email accounts require a specific type of authentication (Shibboleth).
Gmail's Canned Responses (Templates) feature is a great resource for those who continually receive the same questions or comments via email and wish to use prepared responses to answer these
Email forwarding is available to: Current Students and Staff who are NOT in the Academic Health Center or other Department or School that handles s
There are several reasons why names may not be displaying correctly in Gmail. 
This article goes over two options for you to reduce spam messages in your UMN inbox. In this article:
You can use the send mail as Google functionality to send messages from your UMN email address while logged into your personal Gmail account. This can be done via setup through either smtp.gmail.com or smtp.umn.edu.
Set up automatic email filtering to manage your University email. You can:
This article will help you to sign in to multiple Gmail accounts at one time.
Email headers contain tracking information for an individual email, detailing the path a message took as it went through various mail servers.
Faculty, staff, and students who leave the University may lose access to University Google Workspace accounts.
This article walks you through the process of installing the Google Gmail and Device Policy apps that are required for acces
You can request that your University of Minnesota Google campus domain be moved from one campus to another. This is usually necessary when students, staff, or faculty members transfer between&
The University of Minnesota has enabled access to GMail Offline Mode for most University Google

Resources

Learn how to use the basic features of Gmail including managing your Gmail account, reading & organizing emails and sending emails.
You can read, respond to, and search your Gmail messages even when you aren't connected to the Internet.
You can easily communicate with your family and friends through Hangouts in Gmail. You can make phone calls, have face-to-face video calls, and share photos.
Out of office or vacation replyIf you'll be away from your Gmail account, like on a vacation or without access to the Internet, you can set up a vacation responder to automatically notify people that you won'
For a limited time, the University of Minnesota is offering an alumni.umn.edu email account (Gmail and contacts only) to people who had the expectation of continued access to their University of Minnesota email accoun
An outgoing relay is a mail server that delivers users' outgoing email messages.
Gmail HelpFor assistance with using gmail, Google provides these helpful resources: