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Saturday 12 January 2013

How to find creation date of your Gmail account?

          

                You might think for what reason would we require your Gmail account creation date, but you  would thank me once you forget your Gmail password. when you forget your password and can't even remember security question you are left with this option, it asks you creation date of your gmail account. so here are the steps to know your gmail creation date in a easy manner.


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Method 1:


This is one nice method to know creation date of your account. Gmail team sends you a welcome mail during creation of your account so you can click on oldest post on your Gmail account and get that mail. After opening it you will find its creation date. so keep that in mind. might be helpful if your account is hacked and security question is not quite helpful.


Method 2:


This method is little complicated then previous one but will help you in case you have deleted that mail accidently before. 

GoTo www.google.com/takeout

there you will find "transfer your google+ connections to another account" click it

New tab will open with name google pus transfer tool

where account type and creation date will be given,

 take note of it and close that tab without making any changes


Method 3:

We have one more method to know creation date of our gmail account, 

Goto Settings in gmail/google+

then click on forwarding and POP/IMAP

In Pop Download 1) Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since


Creation year of my account is 2007, whats yours?