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GmailFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about Google's email service. For other uses, seeGmail (disambiguation).

Gmail

A screenshot of a Gmail inbox

Developer(s) Google

Initial release March 21, 2004

Operating system Server: Linux Client: Any Web browser

Platform Google Web Toolkit (Java/JavaScript)

Type POP3, IMAP, E-mail, webmail

Website mail.google.com


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Gmail is a free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google.[1][2]

In

the United Kingdom andGermany it is officially called Google Mail.

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the

general public on February 7, 2007, though still with beta status. As of July 2009,[3]

it has 146 million users

monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google

Apps suite.[4][5]

With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for

free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time.

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

developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.

[6]

Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which runs on Linux.[7][8][9]

Contents

[hide]

1 Features

o 1.1 Storage

o 1.2 Gmail Labs

o 1.3 Spam filtero 1.4 Gmail Mobile

2 Interface

3 History

4 Domain name

5 Requirement for mobile phone number

6 Gmail hoaxes

o 6.1 Gmail Paper hoax

o 6.2 Gmail Custom Time hoax

o 6.3 Gmail Autopilot hoax

7 Code changes

8 Criticisms

o 8.1 Privacy

o 8.2 Technical limitations

o 8.3 Outages

o 8.4 "On behalf of"


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o 8.5 Disabling accounts

9 Reception

o 9.1 Awards

10 Trademark disputes

o 10.1 Germany

o 10.2 Poland

o 10.3 Russian Federation

o 10.4 United Kingdom

o 10.5 United States

11 Competition

12 See also

o 12.1 3rd party software

13 References

14 External links

[edit]Features

[edit]Storage

Gmail's log-in page (July 2009)

The Gmail service currently provides more than 7400 MB of free storage.[10]

Users can rent additional

storage (shared between Picasa Web Albums and Gmail) from 20 GB (US$5/year) to 16 TB

(US$4096/year).[11][12][13][14]

On April 1, 2005 the first anniversary of Gmail, Google announced the increase from 1 GB, stating that

Google would "keep giving people more space forever."[15]

In April 2005 Gmail engineer Rob Siemborski stated that Google would keep increasing storage by the

second as long as it had enough space on its servers. On October 12, 2007 the rate of increase was 5.37

MB per hour.[16]

As of July 27, 2009, the rate was 0.000004 MB/s, or 0.0144 MB/hr[17]

[edit]Gmail Labs

The Gmail Labs feature, introduced on June 5, 2008, allows users to test new or experimental features of

Gmail, such as bookmarking of important e-mail messages, custom keyboard-shortcuts and games.


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Users can enable or disable Labs features selectively and provide feedback about each of them. This allows

Gmail engineers to obtain user input about new features to improve them and also to assess their popularity

and whether they merit developing into regular Gmail features. All Labs features are experimental and are

subject to termination at any time.

On December 10, 2008 Gmail added support for SMS Messaging through its integrated Chat.[18][19][20]

On January 28, 2009 Gmail added support for offline access through its integration with Gears.[21]

On July 14, 2009 Gmail brought Tasks out of Labs testing and made it an official feature.[22]

[edit]Spam filter

Gmail's spam filtering features a community-driven system: when any user marks an email as spam, this

provides information to help the system identify similar future messages for all Gmail users.[23]

[edit]Gmail Mobile

Gmail Mobile is a version of Google's Gmail email service. It is a free service, developed to provide access

to Gmail from mobile devices such as cell phones, or smartphones. Gmail Mobile was released on

December 16, 2005 and is available in many different languages. Gmail Mobile offers many of the features

as Gmail delivered effectively to smaller, mobile screens. Users have the ability to compose, read, reply,

forward, mark unread, add a star or trash email messages.[citation needed]

On September 22, 2009 Google brought Push Mail support to its Gmail service using Google Sync

for iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, Symbian and Windows Mobile based devices.[24]

[edit]Interface

Main article:Gmail interface

The Gmail interface differs from other webmail systems with its focus on search and its "conversation view"

of email, grouping several replies onto a single page. Gmail's user experience designer, Kevin Fox, intended

users to feel as if they were always on one page and just changing things on that page, rather than having to

navigate to other places.[25]

[edit]HistoryMain article:History of Gmail

Gmail was a project started by Google developer Paul Buchheit several years before it was announced to

the public. Initially the e-mail client was available for use only by Google employees internally within the

company. Google announced Gmail to the public on April 1, 2004.[26]

[edit]Domain name


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Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by

Garfield.com, online home of the comic stripGarfield. After moving to a different domain, that service has

since been discontinued.[27]

As of 22 June 2005, Gmail's canonicalURI changed

from http://gmail.google.com/gmail/to http://mail.google.com/mail/.[28]

As of July 2009, those who typed in

the former URI were redirected to the latter.

The domain gmail.comis unavailable in certain countries due to trademark disputes, in which cases users

are able to use the domain googlemail.com. The Gmail service does not discriminate between these two

domains for incoming e-mails, therefore a user with the address "[email protected]" will receive

mail sent to "[email protected]", and vice-versa. Accordingly, users obliged to use

the googlemail.comdomain are unable to select addresses already chosen by gmail.comusers.

[edit]Requirement for mobile phone number

When attempting to create a Gmail account from some countries, Google requires a mobile

phonenumber that supports text messaging. In other countries this is not required for sign-up, according to

Google due to service limitations.[29]

Google explains this:

If you'd like to sign up for a Gmail address, you need to have a mobile phone that has text-messaging

capabilities.

If you don't have a phone, you may want to ask a friend if you can use his or her number to receive a

code.

One of the reasons we're offering this new way to sign up for Gmail is to help protect our users and

combat abuse. Spam and abuse protection are two things we take very seriously, and our users have been

very happy with the small amount of spam they've received in Gmail. We take many measures to ensure

that spammers have a difficult time sending their spam messages, getting these messages delivered, or

even obtaining a Gmail address (spammers will often use many different addresses to send spam).

Sending invitation codes to mobile phones is one way to address this, as the number of addresses created

per phone number can be limited.[29] [edit]Gmail hoaxes

See also:Google's hoaxes

[edit]Gmail Paper hoax

On April Fools' Day 2007, Google made fun of Gmail by introducing "Gmail Paper", where a user could click

a button and Gmail would purportedly mail an ad-supported hard copy for free.[30]


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[edit]Gmail Custom Time hoax

On April Fools' Day 2008 Google introduced a fake service, "Gmail Custom Time", which would allegedly

allow a user to send up to ten e-mails per year with forged timestamps. The hoax stated that by bending

spacetime on the Google servers, the e-mails actually get routed through the fourth dimension of time itself

before reaching their intended recipient.[31][32]

[edit]Gmail Autopilot hoax

On April Fools' Day 2009 Google introduced a service called Gmail Autopilot by CADIE.[33]

According to

Google, the service purported to automatically read and respond to emails for the user. It appeared to work

by analyzing messages for the emotions expressed in the message and either providing advice to the user

or automatically responding to the message.

[edit]Code changes

Gmail's JavaScript front-end was rewritten in late summer and early fall of 2007 and was released to users

starting on October 29, 2007. The new version had a redesigned contacts section, quick contacts box and

chat popups, which were added to names in the message list as well as the contact list. The contacts

application is integrated into other Google services, such as Google Docs. Users granted access to the new

version were given a link at the top-right corner which read "Newer Version". As of December 2007, most

new registrations in English (US) along with most pre-existing accounts are given the new interface by

default when supported. There remains the option to downgrade via a link labelled "Older

Version".[34][35][36][37]

These coding changes mean that only users of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Google Chrome and Safari

3.0 (or more recent versions) can fully use the new code. Internet Explorer 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla

1.4+, Firefox 0.8, Safari 1.3 and some other browsers will give limited functionality. Other browsers may be

redirected to the basic-HTML-only version of Gmail.[36][38][39][40][41]

During the week of January 18, 2008 Google released an update that changed the way Gmail loads

JavaScript. This caused the failure of some third-party extensions.[42]

On December 12, 2008 Gmail added support for faster PDF viewing within the browser.[43]

[edit]Criticisms

[edit]Privacy

Google automatically scans e-mails to add context-sensitive advertisements to them. Privacy advocates

raised concerns that the plan involved scanning their personal, assumed private, e-mails, and that this was a

security problem. Allowing e-mail content to be read, even by a computer, raises the risk that the expectation

of privacy in e-mail will be reduced. Furthermore, e-mail that non-subscribers choose to send to Gmail

accounts is scanned by Gmail as well, even though those senders never agreed to Gmail's terms of service


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or privacy policy. Google can change its privacy policy unilaterally and Google is technically able to cross-

reference cookies across its information-rich product line to make dossiers on individuals. However, most e-

mail systems make use of server-side content scanning in order to check for spam.[44][45]

Privacy advocates also regard the lack of disclosed data retention and correlation policies as problematic.

Google has the ability to combine information contained in a person's e-mail messages with information from

Internet searches. Google has not confirmed how long such information is kept or how it can be used. One

of the concerns is ......

GmailFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about Google's email service. For other uses, seeGmail (disambiguation).

Gmail

A screenshot of a Gmail inbox

Developer(s) Google

Initial release March 21, 2004


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Operating system Server: Linux Client: Any Web browser

Platform Google Web Toolkit (Java/JavaScript)

Type POP3, IMAP, E-mail, webmail

Website mail.google.com

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google.[1][2]

In

the United Kingdom andGermany it is officially called Google Mail.

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the

general public on February 7, 2007, though still with beta status. As of July 2009,[3]

it has 146 million users

monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google

Apps suite.[4][5]

With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for

free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time.

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

developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.[6]

Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which runs on Linux.[7][8][9]

Contents

[hide]

1 Features

o 1.1 Storage

o 1.2 Gmail Labs

o 1.3 Spam filter

o 1.4 Gmail Mobile

2 Interface

3 History

4 Domain name


6 Gmail hoaxes


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7 Code changes

8 Criticisms

o 8.1 Privacy


o 8.3 Outages


o

8.5 Disabling accounts

9 Reception

o 9.1 Awards


o 10.1 Germany

o 10.2 Poland




11 Competition

12 See also


13 References

14 External links

Contents

[hide]

1 Features

o 1.1 Storage

o 1.2 Gmail Labs

o 1.3 Spam filter

o 1.4 Gmail Mobile

2 Interface

3 History


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4 Domain name


6 Gmail hoaxes




7 Code changes

8 Criticisms

o 8.1 Privacy


o 8.3 Outages


o 8.5 Disabling accounts

9 Reception

o 9.1 Awards


o 10.1 Germany

o10.2 Poland




11 Competition

12 See also


13 References

14 External links

[edit]Features

[edit]Storage

Gmail's log-in page (July 2009)


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The Gmail service currently provides more than 7400 MB of free storage.[10]

Users can rent additional

storage (shared between Picasa Web Albums and Gmail) from 20 GB (US$5/year) to 16 TB

(US$4096/year).[11][12][13][14]

On April 1, 2005 the first anniversary of Gmail, Google announced the increase from 1 GB, stating that

Google would "keep giving people more space forever."[15]

In April 2005 Gmail engineer Rob Siemborski stated that Google would keep increasing storage by the

second as long as it had enough space on its servers. On October 12, 2007 the rate of increase was 5.37

MB per hour.[16]

As of July 27, 2009, the rate was 0.000004 MB/s, or 0.0144 MB/hr[17]

[edit]Gmail Labs

The Gmail Labs feature, introduced on June 5, 2008, allows users to test new or experimental features ofGmail, such as bookmarking of important e-mail messages, custom keyboard-shortcuts and games.

Users can enable or disable Labs features selectively and provide feedback about each of them. This allows

Gmail engineers to obtain user input about new features to improve them and also to assess their popularity

and whetherthey merit developing into regular Gmail features. All Labs features are experimental and are

subject to termination at any time.

On December 10, 2008 Gmail added support for SMS Messaging through its integrated Chat.[18][19][20]

On January 28, 2009 Gmail added support for offline access through its integration with Gears.[21]

On July 14, 2009 Gmail brought Tasks out of Labs testing and made it an official feature.[22]

[edit]Spam filter

Gmail's spam filtering features a community-driven system: when any user marks an email as spam, this

provides information to help the system identify similar future messages for all Gmail users.[23]

[edit]Gmail Mobile

Gmail Mobile is a version of Google's Gmail email service. It is a free service, developed to provide access

to Gmail from mobile devices such as cell phones, or smartphones. Gmail Mobile was released on

December 16, 2005 and is available in many different languages. Gmail Mobile offers many of the features

as Gmail delivered effectively to smaller, mobile screens. Users have the ability to compose, read, reply,

forward, mark unread, add a star or trash email messages.[citation needed]

On September 22, 2009 Google brought Push Mail support to its Gmail service using Google Sync

for iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, Symbian and Windows Mobile based devices.[24]

[edit]Interface

Main article:Gmail interface


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The Gmail interface differs from other webmail systems with its focus on search and its "conversation view"

of email, grouping several replies onto a single page. Gmail's user experience designer, Kevin Fox, intended

users to feel as if they were always on one page and just changing things on that page, rather than having to

navigate to other places.[25]

[edit]History

Main article:History of Gmail

Gmail was a project started by Google developer Paul Buchheit several years before it was announced to

the public. Initially the e-mail client was available for use only by Google employees internally within the

company. Google announced Gmail to the public on April 1, 2004.[26]

[edit]

Domain name

Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by

Garfield.com, online home of the comic stripGarfield. After moving to a different domain, that service has

since been discontinued.[27]

As of 22 June 2005, Gmail's canonicalURI changed

from http://gmail.google.com/gmail/to http://mail.google.com/mail/.[28]

As of July 2009, those who typed in

the former URI were redirected to the latter.

The domain gmail.comis unavailable in certain countries due to trademark disputes, in which cases users

are able to use the domain googlemail.com. The Gmail service does not discriminate between these two

domains for incoming e-mails, therefore a user with the address "[email protected]" will receive

mail sent to "[email protected]", and vice-versa. Accordingly, users obliged to use

the googlemail.comdomain are unable to select addresses already chosen by gmail.comusers.

[edit]Requirement for mobile phone number

When attempting to create a Gmail account from some countries, Google requires a mobile

phonenumber that supports text messaging. In other countries this is not required for sign-up, according to

Google due to service limitations.[29]

Google explains this:

If you'd like to sign up for a Gmail address, you need to have a mobile phone that has text-messagingcapabilities.

If you don't have a phone, you may want to ask a friend if you can use his or her number to receive a

code.

One of the reasons we're offering this new way to sign up for Gmail is to help protect our users and

combat abuse. Spam and abuse protection are two things we take very seriously, and our users have been


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very happy with the small amount of spam they've received in Gmail. We take many measures to ensure

that spammers have a difficult time sending their spam messages, getting these messages delivered, or

even obtaining a Gmail address (spammers will often use many different addresses to send spam).

Sending invitation codes to mobile phones is one way to address this, as the number of addresses created

per phone number can be limited.[29]

[edit]Gmail hoaxes

See also:Google's hoaxes

[edit]Gmail Paper hoax

On April Fools' Day 2007, Google made fun of Gmail by introducing "Gmail Paper", where a user could click

a button and Gmail would purportedly mail an ad-supported hard copy for free.[30]

[edit]Gmail Custom Time hoax

On April Fools' Day 2008 Google introduced a fake service, "Gmail Custom Time", which would allegedly

allow a user to send up to ten e-mails per year with forged timestamps. The hoax stated that by bending

spacetime on the Google servers, the e-mails actually get routed through the fourth dimension of time itself

before reaching their intended recipient.[31][32]

[edit]Gmail Autopilot hoax

On April Fools' Day 2009 Google introduced a service called Gmail Autopilot by CADIE.[33]

According to

Google, the service purported to automatically read and respond to emails for the user. It appeared to work

by analyzing messages for the emotions expressed in the message and either providing advice to the user

or automatically responding to the message.

[edit]Code changes

Gmail's JavaScript front-end was rewritten in late summer and early fall of 2007 and was released to users

starting on October 29, 2007. The new version had a redesigned contacts section, quick contacts box and

chat popups, which were added to names in the message list as well as the contact list. The contacts

application is integrated into other Google services, such as Google Docs. Users granted access to the new

version were given a link at the top-right corner which read "Newer Version". As of December 2007, most

new registrations in English (US) along with most pre-existing accounts are given the new interface by

default when supported. There remains the option to downgrade via a link labelled "Older

Version".[34][35][36][37]

These coding changes mean that only users of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Google Chrome and Safari

3.0 (or more recent versions) can fully use the new code. Internet Explorer 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla

1.4+, Firefox 0.8, Safari 1.3 and some other browsers will give limited functionality. Other browsers may be

redirected to the basic-HTML-only version of Gmail.[36][38][39][40][41]


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Gmail sorts e-mail only by conversations (threads), which can be a problem for large conversations. For

example, if a user sends a query to a large group of people, all of the responses are stored in a single

conversation that is impossible to break apart. There is no way to search for responses from one user

without getting the entire conversation. While deletion of individual e-mails is possible, most operations, such

as archiving and labeling, can only be performed on whole conversations. Conversations cannot be split up

or combined.[54]

[edit]Outages

Gmail has been unavailable on several occasions. On February 24, 2009 the Gmail service was offline for

2.5 hours, preventing millions of users from accessing their accounts. People who rely entirely on Gmail for

business purposes complained about these outages.[55][56]

Another outage occurred on September 1, 2009.

The problem was widely reported by users on Twitter, and Google acknowledged that the problem affects "a

majority of users" and promised an update on the situation by 1:53:00PM PDT which would include a time

estimate on when they expect to have the problem fixed.[57][58][59]

An update at 1:02PM PDT stated that theproblem was still being investigated and promised another update by 2:16:00 PM PDT. According to an

Official Gmail Blog post, IMAP and POP3 access was unaffected.[60]

Later that day, a Google vice president,

Ben Treynor, explained that the problem, which ultimately resulted in about 100 minutes of outage, was

caused by overloaded routers, triggered by a routine configuration change which added more router load

than expected. Treynor wrote, "Gmail remains more than 99.9% available to all users, and we're committed

to keeping events like today's notable for their rarity."[61][62]

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The using software is free version, you can upgrade it to theupgrade version.http://www.allimagetool.com

In 2009, Google continued to experience outages across its network, leaving users without access to their

email, calendars, and virtual files.[63]

Key outage dates include:[63]

September 24, 2009: Gmail outage

September 1, 2009: Gmail outage

May 14, 2009: Google network outage

March 9, 2009: Gmail outage

August 7, 2008: Gmail and Google Apps outage

[edit]"On behalf of"

Prior to July 2009, any email sent through the Gmail interface included the Gmail.com address as the

"sender", even if it was sent with a custom email address as "from". For example, an email sent with an

external "from" address using Gmail could be displayed to a receiving e-mail client user as From


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[email protected] on behalf of [email protected](the display used by versions of

Microsoft Outlook). By exposing the Gmail address, Google claimed that this would "help prevent mail from

being marked as spam".[64] A number of Gmail users complained that this implementation was both a privacy

concern and a professionalism problem.[65]

On July 30, 2009, Gmail announced an update to resolve this issue.[66]

The updated custom 'From:'feature

allows users to send messages from Gmail using a custom SMTP server, instead of Gmail's (which will

continue to add the gmail address as "sender").[67]

[edit]Disabling accounts

Google's terms of service allow it to disable customer accounts at any time with no warning. Google

provides a page for users to complain if an account has been disabled in error, but although some users are

able to get their accounts back, for others it often generates no response, and users have no other way to

get their accounts returned to them.[68]

[69]

[70]

[71]

[edit]Reception

[edit]Awards

Gmail was ranked second in PC World's "100 Best Products of 2005," behind Mozilla Firefox. Gmail also

won 'Honorable Mention' in the Bottom Line Design Awards 2005.[72][73]

Gmail has drawn many favorable reviews from users for generous space quotas and unique organization.[74]

[edit]Trademark disputes

[edit]Germany

On July 4, 2005 Google announced that Gmail Deutschlandwould be rebranded as Google Mail.[citation

needed]From that point forward, visitors originating from an IP address determined to be in Germany would be

forwarded to googlemail.com where they could obtain an e-mail address containing the new

domain.[citation needed]

Any German user who wants a gmail.comaddress must sign up for an account

through a proxy. German users who were already registered were allowed to keep their old addresses.[citation

needed]However e-mails sent [email protected] still reach the right recipient.

The German naming issue is due to a trademark dispute between Google and Daniel Giersch. Daniel

Giersch owns a company called "G-mail" which provides the service of printing out e-mail from senders and

sending the print-out via postal mail to the intended recipients. On January 30, 2007, the EU's Office for

Harmonization in the Internal Market ruled in favor of Giersch.[75]

Google spoofed "offering" the same service in the Gmail Paper April Fool's Day joke in 2007.[76]

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In February 2007 Google filed legal action against the owners of gmail.pl, a poet group known in full

as abbreviated GMAiL (literally, "Group of Young Artists and

Writers").[77]

[edit]Russian Federation

A Russian free webmail service called gmail.ru owns the "Gmail" trademark in the Russian

Federation.[78]

The gmail.ru domain name dates from January 27, 2003.[79]

[edit]United Kingdom

The Google Mail logo

On October 19, 2005 Google voluntarily converted the United Kingdom version of Gmail to Google

Mailbecause of a dispute with the UK company, Independent International Investment Research.[80][81]

Users who registered before the switch to Google Mail were able to keep their Gmail address, although the

Gmail logo was replaced with a Google Maillogo. Users who signed up after the name change receive

a googlemail.com address, although a reverse of either in the sent email will still deliver it to the same

place.

In September 2009 Google began to change the branding of UK accounts back to Gmail following the

resolution of the trademark dispute.[82]

[edit]United States

A trademark for "Gmail" was first filed in January 28, 1999 in the United States by an individual named Milo

Crips.[83]

However, the mark became abandoned on July 31, 2000 because of a failure to respond to an

inquiry by the U.S. trademark office. Google, Inc. refiled for the mark on April 4, 2004, and was granted a

federal U.S. trademark on "Gmail" on December 11, 2007.[84]

Since then, Google's trademark rights for the

Gmail mark in the United States have not been challenged.

[edit]Competition

See also:Comparison of webmail providers

After Gmail's initial development and launch, many existing web mail services quickly increased their

storage capacity.[85]

For example, Hotmail increased space for some users from 2 MB to 25 MB, with 250 MB after 30 days, and

2 GB for Hotmail Plus accounts. Yahoo! Mail went from 4 MB to 100 MB and 2 GB for Yahoo! Mail Plus


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accounts. Yahoo! Mail storage then increased to 250 MB and in late April 2005 to 1 GB. Yahoo! Mail

announced that it would be providing "unlimited" storage to all its users in March 2007 and began providing it

in May 2007.[86]

These were all seen as moves to stop existing users from switching to Gmail and to capitalize on the newly

rekindled public interest in web mail services. The desire to catch up was especially noted in the case of

MSN's Hotmail, which upgraded its e-mail storage from 250 MB to the new Windows Live Hotmail which

includes 5 GB of storage. As of November 2006, MSN Hotmail upgraded all free accounts to 1 GB of

storage.[87]

In June 2005 AOL started providing all AIM screen names with their own e-mail accounts with 2 GB of

storage.[88]

The Gmail system flags as dormant every Gmail account which remains inactive for six months. After a

further three months, for a total of nine months dormancy, the system may delete such accounts.[89]

Other

webmail services have different, often shorter, times for marking an account as inactive. Yahoo! Mail

deactivates dormant accounts after four months, while Hotmailmatches Gmail's nine months.[90][91]

As well as increasing storage limits following the launch of Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail also enhanced

their e-mail interfaces. During 2005 Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail matched Gmail's attachment size of 10 MB.

Following the footsteps of Gmail, Yahoo! launched the Yahoo! Mail Beta service and Microsoft launched

Windows Live Hotmail, both incorporating Ajaxinterfaces. Google increased the maximum attachment size to

20 MB in May 2007[92]

and to 25 MB in June 2009.[93]

[edit]See also

Find more about Gmail on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary

Textbooks from Wikibooks

Quotations from Wikiquote

Source texts from Wikisource

Images and media from Commons

News stories from Wikinews

Learning resources from Wikiversity

Comparison of webmail providers

Gmail interface

History of Gmail


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Lavabit

List of Google services and tools

Gmail Mobile

[edit]3rd party software

Gmail browser - site-specific browser for Gmail for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5..[94]

Gmail Drive

GmailFS

Mailplane

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client or device that supports POP, like Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Mail."

2. ^ "How do I enable IMAP?". Google. 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2008-06-01. "You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a

client or device that supports IMAP, like Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail."

3. ^ Arrington, Michael (2009-07-09). "Bing Comes to Hotmail". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2009-07-11. "Hotmail is still by far

the largest web mail provider on the Internet, with 343 million monthly users according to Comscore. Second and third

are Yahoo (285 million) and Gmail (146 million)."

4. ^ Coleman, Keith (July 2009). "Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature". Retrieved 2009-07-07.

5. ^ Vanacore, Andrew (July 2009). "Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customer". Retrieved 2009-07-07.

6. ^ Wei, Coach K.. "AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML?". www.developer.com. Retrieved 2008-11-13. "In fact, the

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