To verify your Google@SAS account settings:
- Using a browser, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings
.
- 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
- Go to your Google Account.
- On the left navigation panel, click Personal info.
- On the Contact info section, click Add a recovery phone to help keep your account secure.
- From here, you can:
- Add a recovery phone.
- Change your recovery phone: Next to your number, select Edit
.
- Delete your recovery phone: Next to your number, select Delete
.
- 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
- Go to your Google Account.
- On the left navigation panel, click Personal info.
- On the Contact info section, click Email.
- From here, you can:
- Add a recovery email.
- Change or delete your recovery email: Next to your email, select Edit
.
- 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