Gmail is the best emailing service till date. But our Gmail account is not only limited to emails, in fact it has more vital usages like Adsense and other products by Google. But today no online service is secure and accounts from a lot of services are compromised each day. So we have a useful yet very less known procedure provided by Gmail to monitor your Gmail account login activity. You must also read about the Free SMS service launched by Gmail.
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How to Monitor Your Gmail Account Login Activity :
1. Login to Gmail. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Details”.3. Now you will see all the login activity for your Gmail account. It shows the type of access : whether it from a browser, a mobile device or a mail client, it also shows the IP address for all the logins and the Date and the Time of login. If you find any of the IP listed here different from the once you logged in from or you find the time of the logins suspicious, then you must immediately change your password and also activate the two step verification for Gmail for added security.
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4. Now click on “change” and then select the “Show an alert for unusual activity”. This will alert you of any unusual activity Gmail observes for your account.