Verify your Google Account settings

  • Faculty & Staff
  • Students & Alumni

To verify your Google@SAS account settings:

  1. Using a browser, open Gmail.
  2. In the top right, click Settings Settings.
  3. Click the tabs below to check your settings.

General tab

  • Check your signature to make sure the text looks correct.
  • Check your vacation responder to make sure the text looks correct, and that it isn't turned on if you don't need it to be.

Accounts and Import tab

  • Check "Send mail as" to make sure all the email addresses listed belong to you.
  • Check "Grant access to your account" to see that no unknown people have access to your account.
  • Check "Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)" to make sure all the email addresses listed belong to you.

Filters and Blocked Addresses tab

  • Check to make sure mail isn't being automatically forwarded to an unknown account using a "Forward to" filter.
  • Check that any filters that automatically delete messages ("Delete it") were set up by you.

Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab

  • Check that your messages aren't being forwarded to an unknown account.
  • Verify that your POP or IMAP settings are correct.

 

To update your recovery email and phone number:

Add or change a recovery phone number

  1. Go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left navigation panel, click Personal info.
  3. On the Contact info section, click Add a recovery phone to help keep your account secure.
  4. From here, you can:
    • Add a recovery phone.
    • Change your recovery phone: Next to your number, select Edit Edit.
    • Delete your recovery phone: Next to your number, select Delete Delete.
  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Note: Deleting your recovery phone number doesn’t delete it from being used for other Google services. Go to your account to manage your phone numbers.

Which number to use

Use a mobile phone that:

  • Gets text messages
  • Belongs only to you
  • You use regularly and keep with you

Add or change a recovery email address

  1. Go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left navigation panel, click Personal info.
  3. On the Contact info section, click Email.
  4. From here, you can:
    • Add a recovery email.
    • Change or delete your recovery email: Next to your email, select Edit Edit.
  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Which email to use

Choose an email address that:

  • You use regularly
  • Is different from the one you use to sign in to your Google Account