# Does your GMail account send a message after each login?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 24, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706 "2015-08-24T09:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706/1 "2015-08-24T09:49:21Z")

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This gets quite annoying. Litters my Inbox.  
_New sign-in from Firefox on Windows_

there’s a date & time stamp in the email indicating the login. Got two in less than 24 hours. One at 9AM Sunday when I logged in and then this morning, Monday at 4:30 AM.

Does your GMail do this too? Any way to turn it off?

I use this account sporadically. Sometimes I may go three weeks without logging in. Then I may use it daily for a week. Depends on my schedule. The account is for my music lessons. I have places like Jamplay linked to it.

We have GMail at work, but it’s a managed account. Never, ever got this “New Sign In” notification on that account before.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706/2 "2015-08-24T09:57:10Z")

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Yeah, didn’t used to but it’s some kind of new-ish security thing they started. I’m sure there’s a way to turn it off but I haven’t bothered to check.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706/3 "2015-08-24T10:20:34Z")

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Do you keep clearing your cache or never save cookies? I only get the notice when my browser is “new” to my Google signon, which only happens if I’ve had to clear my cache for some reason. I sign into two different accounts regularly from home, work and phone. The message never comes up unless one of those browsers lost a cookie for some reason and I have to re-type usernames and passwords, or when a password has been changed.

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-gmail-account-send-a-message-after-each-login/728706/4 "2015-08-24T10:23:55Z")

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> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> Do you keep clearing your cache or never save cookies? I only get the notice when my browser is “new” to my Google signon, which only happens if I’ve had to clear my cache for some reason. I sign into two different accounts regularly from home, work and phone. The message never comes up unless one of those browsers lost a cookie for some reason and I have to re-type usernames and passwords, or when a password has been changed.

🙂 That’s it then. Yes, I have CCleaner set to clean my cache and wipe history every time my pc boots. That’s usually every morning because I shut it down every night.

I guess I need to set up an exception so Google’s cookie doesn’t get deleted. I did the same thing here at the SDMB so I wouldn’t have to keep signing in.

thanks