{"id":959,"date":"2014-01-17T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2014-01-17T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:05:12","slug":"how-to-disable-gmail-new-feature-which-allows-anyone-to-send-you-email-without-knowing-your-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"How to disable Gmail new feature which allows anyone to send you email without knowing your email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Google announced that <strong>Gmail<\/strong> users can email their <strong>Google<\/strong>+ connections without knowing their email address first. For some, it&#8217;s an easy way to stay in touch. For others, it&#8217;s a ticket to unwanted email. However you feel, here&#8217;s how to turn the feature off, or set it so only the people you want can use it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the new feature has rolled out to Gmail users (although it hasn&#8217;t gotten to Google Apps users, as far as we can see), controlling who can email you is pretty simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/1\/#settings\/general\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to open the General tab in your Gmail Settings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to Email via Google+.<\/li>\n<li>Click the drop-down and select your preferred option. &#8220;Circles&#8221; (which was the default for me) only allows people in your circles\u2014not those who have circled you\u2014to contact you. &#8220;Extended circles&#8221; allows friends of your friends to email you. &#8220;Anyone on Google+&#8221; is as the name implies, and we&#8217;d suggest avoiding it. To turn the feature off completely, select &#8220;No one.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down and click &#8220;Save Changes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last week, Google announced that Gmail users can email their Google+ connections without knowing their email address first. For some, it&#8217;s an easy way to stay in touch. For others, it&#8217;s a ticket to unwanted email. However you feel, here&#8217;s how to turn the feature off, or set it so only the people you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[164],"tags":[439,438,21,50],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-circle","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p12j6H-ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}