About Gmail

                    

About Gmail.

1. Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google.

2. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.

3. Gmail initially started as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general   public on February 7, 2007

4. With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time.

5.  Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB, which is larger than many other mail services support.

 6. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum.

 7. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax.

8.  Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux.

9.  As of June 2012, it is the most widely used web-based email provider with over 425 million active users worldwide. 




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