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How to Email Unique File Attachments using Mail Merge for Gmail

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Mail Merge , available for Gmail and Google Inbox, is a perfect tool for sending personalized emails to one or more email addresses using a simple Google Sheet. If you never performed merge before, please watch the Mail Merge tutorial  and documentation to get started. One of the most popular features of Mail Merge is its unique ability to send different file attachments to different email address. For instance, if you are applying for a job at different companies, you can attach the same PDF resume in all email messages but the cover letter could be different with each application. This step-by-step tutorial explains how you can you can use Mail Merge for Gmail to send unique email attachments to your contacts. Mail Merge pulls files from Google Drive and includes them as attachments in the outgoing email messages. Step 1 : Install the Mail Merge add-on . Step 2 : Open a new Google Sheet, go to Addons > Mail Merge with Attachments > Create Merge template to in...

See the Email Sender’s Company and Logo in your Gmail Inbox

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The default layout of your Gmail inbox has the sender’s name listed in the left most column followed by the subject and the date of the message. The emails are sorted in reverse chronological order with the newest messages listed at the top. The problem with this layout is that you cannot figure out who the actual sender of a message is without actually opening the email. For instance, if you get an email from Angus who works at Google and a second email from another Angus who is employed with Microsoft, Gmail will simply show Angus as the sender for both emails. To solve this exact problem, I wrote  Gmail Sender Icons  and it is now available for everyone. It is a Google Chrome extension that will make it easy for you to identify the company or the organisation of the email sender right inside the message list of your Gmail inbox. Check out the screenshots and you’ll get the idea. The add-on extracts the email address of the sender, parses the websi...