Use Gmail Offline
I bet you already knew that Gmail is a properly good email client. After all, why would you bother to create a Gmail account in the first place? But did you know that you could use Gmail even if your internet connection went down? This is a feature that Google introduced at the start of the year. Once activated, Gmail users can read their emails offline and they can compose emails offline.
The whole thing goes something like this: when you are connected to the internet, Gmail uses Google Gears to download a local cache of your mail. That cache is continuously synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When your internet connection goes down, Gmail gives you access to that cache thus allowing you to read, star and label messages in your inbox. You can also compose new email messages – they will be sent out when the internet connection is restored.
It is a great feature that keeps getting better. Google has recently announced that Gmail users can add attachments to offline composed messages as well. It seems this was a feature many Gmail users asked for.
If using Gmail offline is something you’d be interested in, here is what you have to do:
Step 1. Go to Gmail (click here – a new tab will open), enter your login credentials and click Sign in.
Step 2. Look to the top right corner of the screen. Locate the Settings link and click it.
Step 3. In the Settings window click the Labs tab (the second to last tab to the right; just check the image at the bottom if you don’t see it).
Step 4. Locate a Labs feature called Offline. Select Enable.
Step 5. Click Save Changes (there’s a Save Changes tab at the top of the list and at the bottom) and you’re done.
Tips and warnings
Tags: Google, Gmail, Gmail Labs, Offline
The whole thing goes something like this: when you are connected to the internet, Gmail uses Google Gears to download a local cache of your mail. That cache is continuously synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When your internet connection goes down, Gmail gives you access to that cache thus allowing you to read, star and label messages in your inbox. You can also compose new email messages – they will be sent out when the internet connection is restored.
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It is a great feature that keeps getting better. Google has recently announced that Gmail users can add attachments to offline composed messages as well. It seems this was a feature many Gmail users asked for.
If using Gmail offline is something you’d be interested in, here is what you have to do:
Step 1. Go to Gmail (click here – a new tab will open), enter your login credentials and click Sign in.
Step 2. Look to the top right corner of the screen. Locate the Settings link and click it.
Step 3. In the Settings window click the Labs tab (the second to last tab to the right; just check the image at the bottom if you don’t see it).
Step 4. Locate a Labs feature called Offline. Select Enable.
Step 5. Click Save Changes (there’s a Save Changes tab at the top of the list and at the bottom) and you’re done.
Tips and warnings
- If you are already logged into your Google Account, you can skip steps 1, 2 and 3 by simply clicking here.
- Here’s some visual aid.
Tags: Google, Gmail, Gmail Labs, Offline
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