Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail’s simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device.

Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

Pros

• Gmail offers continuously growing storage, free IMAP or POP access and sending from any address
• Smart sorting, searching and starring let you find and organize emails and chat conversations
• Gmail’s web interface is both fast and rich, comes with useful keyboard shortcuts

Cons

• Gmail does not support secure (signed and encrypted) email natively
• Rich HTML formatting does not support inline images and lacks an undo feature
• Gmail does not offer unlimited online space

Description

• Gmail offers free email with growing storage space. Additional storage can be purchased and shared among Google services.
• Next to mail, Gmail shows contextual ads machine-matched to keywords found in messages.
• Starring and custom color labels let you neatly organize threads (conversations) and precise search options find emails fast.
• Gmail’s filters can organize, forward and respond with a canned reply. You can use templates for new messages as well.
• You can access a Gmail account via IMAP or POP in any email client or forward its messages elsewhere.
• A mobile Gmail application tailored to specific phones lets you access mail including attachments fast.
• Gmail retrieves mail from up to 5 POP accounts and lets you use these email addresses (or others) in the From: line of mail.
• Connecting to Google Talk, you can IM and group chat. Integration with Google Calendar lets you create events and invite.
• Gmail supports rich text formatting and can display many attachment types (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• A spam filter tries to sort out the junk and fraud, and Gmail scans for viruses and worms, too.

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