The Gmail inbox feed is recently having issues updating. It is only updating after 2 consecutive and different emails have been marked as unread.
This is the official Gmail inbox atom feed API which is having issues as of May 30th and which many extensions are using:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed
It is affecting all Gmail checking extensions:
Google Mail Checker by Google
Checker Plus for Gmail by Jason Savard
and more...
Note, the same issue can also be reproduced by marking emails as read instead of unread.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
Go to Gmail and mark an email as unread
Click refresh in the "Checker Plus for Gmail" popup window or wait 1 minute in the Google Mail Checker
Go to Gmail and mark another email as unread
Click refresh in the "Checker Plus for Gmail" popup window or wait 1 minute in the Google Mail Checker
The unread mail count is not correctly displaying the number of unread emails with each mark as unread after refreshing. It only working after 2 consecutive mark as unread on different emails.
Are there workarounds or alternatives that do the same thing, or do I need to wait for Google to fix it?
Here are a few things you can do about it:
Report a technical issue (Gmail)
Gmail.com - Settings/Gear > Help > Send Feedback
Gmail Official Forum > Report an Issue
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We send lot of mails with invoices in PDF format to our Clients. We have automated this with simple Outlook VBA code in this page:
Outlook VBA to send mail with Attachment
The mail contains only a PDF attachment & few words in content with hyperlink to our website in signature.
Problem:
If we send the mail through Outlook VBA, the receiving side of mail shows this message.
But, instead of sending, If we save this mail in draft through VBA, then sync with Gmail, Open Chrome -> Gmail -> Drafts -> click send manually. The mails does not show the warning at reciever end.
Note: Settings in our domain like DKIM and SPF are set fine
We appreciate any of your ideas or hints to avoid this problem.
Outlook doesn't differentiate emails submitted manually or programmatically.
The following articles can help you to understand the cause why your email is marked as spam on the receiver's side:
How to Stop Your Emails From Going to Spam – 10 Tips
12 Reasons Why Your Emails Go in the Spam Box (and How to Make Sure They Don’t)
we are using Acumatica outlook plugin to create CASES and we are successful in achieving it.
As you know outlook plugin will automatically create a email activity when we create case. So sometimes we send reply from Outlook plugin and some times we send reply from Acumatica.
The issue is - When we send reply from outlook plugin we are unable to see email in "All Emails" screen, but if we are sending reply to same case from Acumatica we are able to see email in "All Emails" screen.
Can someone please suggest us, what we are missing here.
We are in 2019R2, without any customization published.
There could be a couple of reasons you may be running into this problem. Depending on how you have your setup, one reason could be because of the way you have your System Email Account set up. Check what email is sending as, it could be sending a centralized account. Also check what you default email is set on your account.
Also, are you using the Outgoing Tab? Or looking looking at the all records tab? It could be because of the status of your email. When sending through the Outlook plugin, double check the emails are sending, and double check the status of the activity. It could not be completing and being left as an open item.
A track order button is appended to the end of a subject line in Gmail's inbox. How do they do it?
That is because the e-commerce company that you receive emails from might have whitelisted for the action button to be displayed.
Those buttons are called Action buttons and its a Smartmail feature from Google to access the data quickly without even opening the email.
In order to get your companies email to be whitelisted you can also register your email by following the guidelines mentioned by Google in this page.
Hope that helps!
we sell software licenses but our emails end in the gmail Promotions tab of the main Inbox or even in the spam folder. During the purchase process we send one email with login details, another email with a link to download the invoice and finally another email with an attachment containing the license. Also on every new release, more or less every six months, we send an email notifying users about free upgrade to the new version. We have some complains from gmail users about not having received the license because they didn't notice the email was classified as a promotion or spam. All emails come dkim signed, from spf authorized servers, we are even on the main postmaster feedback loops and in several dns whitelists.
Is there any way to have gmail correctly classify this emails ?
I am not expert on bulk emails. My suggestions are based as my experiences as active Gmail consumer and experiences with learning algorithms
(1) Avoid being labeled spam:
Request/Advice users to add your Id into their contact list.
Follow the GMail Bulk Mail Guidelines link.
Apart from DKIM/SPF do you handle abuse, unsubscribe emails?
If a user marks you spam, nobody can help. Your emails are annoying to user and Gmail will honor user's preference.
(2) Make it to Primary Tab in Gmail Inbox:
Categories in the INBOX are filtered based on Gmail learning algorithm about user preference.
Play with keywords in your mail. If Gmail identifies email content to be important, they'll put it in Primary. I noticed emails from Godaddy.com with expiration/renewal/promo/profile complete request etc always make it to my Primary tab. Either they have figured it out or could be I have replied to them couple of time. Or I may have spend above threshold time staring at content of their emails.
You may request user to mark Star and Important. GMail learning algorithm should pick it.
Usually nobody replies emails in Promotion and Social tabs. Have your user reply your email. Not the best idea I know.
Noticed another ‘major’ retails emails practice :
For Order confirmation they used retailer#accounts.retailer.com : GMail classified Primary
For Reminders, Upgrade and feedback they used retailer#value.retailer.com : GMail classified Promotions
For Pure promotion they have yet another email ID dealnews#promo.retailer.com : GMail classified Promotions
If user is really annoyed with hundreds of promo email, GMAIL learning algorithm may classify promos to go into spam first than value emails. Three ID strategy seems promising.
Good luck !
I've inherited development of an Excel userform which contains a send button to return the user's data back to a central mailbox. The tool has just been rolled out to a larger community and some users are experiencing emails not being sent. These are random events as the users can sometimes send the forms and it is not form specific.
The tool uses the following code to create the email:
Set ObjOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set ObjOutMail = ObjOL.CreateItem(0)
and is sent via:
ObjOutMail.send
We had tested this with a number of users and never had any problems, but we now have a number of users who have successfully sent 1 or more forms but 1 or more have also failed, and they also can't resend the successful forms any more either.
There are no error messages, the Outlook "this could be a virus, etc." confirmation is fired as usual (we have not attempted to circumvent this) but there is nothing in the 'Sent Items'. The users are also able to send conventionally generated emails so there is no mailbox limitations going on.
The Userform is modal and upon sending copies the three user fields to "Sheet1", saves itself and mails itself.
Really at a loss to understand what's going on.
Thanks for any advice.
EDIT: To add we are still using Office 2003 on Win XP.
Thanks for all the replies, using the .display property showed me what was up.
The email is addressed to what I thought was an explicit address, however there is an extra '(MULTIUSER)' post fix which I didn;t realise was actually part of the address, DOH!.
Last week and similar mailbox made up of the same address but with a different postfix was added to the system. This ment Outlook couldn't resolve the address and didn't send the emails.
Thanks again.