Gmail: All are welcome!

Olga Voronina, technical support Gmail.

Unbelievable but true: in the last week, Russia has become the first European country in which the subscription to the postal service. Gmail. opened to the public. Now, for registration in the mail just something Google needs to go. here. and create a new mailbox. Happy New Year, Russia! .

This is not the first associated with Gmail unlikely ( at first glance) a holiday surprise. When Gmail was just launched (April 1, 2004, ), many also did not believe that the starting amount of ordinary mailbox in the service - 1 GB - no joke.

As we can see now, after two and a half years, the idea was very much a viable. Moreover, to keep up with Gmail, other free webmail storage bins poraskryvali. The question of the size of the mailbox is no longer so urgent.

Does this mean that the relevance lost Gmail? . No, no and no again!.

Revolutionary 1 gigabyte (now - 2,700 GB) was just one of a series of conceptually new features that were first introduced in Gmail.

Let me say a few words about the other.

a. search. Imagine that in your mailbox saved a couple hundred letters, one of which hides the number you want. The easiest way out of this situation, if you use any free mail - is a list of those who may know the number you want, and immediately begin to ring them. The alternative - to touch Post by hand. Is that if you are determined more than nothing else to do.

In Gmail, search for phone numbers, as well as any other information, is not more than 40 seconds. 30 of which are required for it to formulate the search criteria ( ' Aunt ', ' new phone '), and 9 need to type keywords and press the 'Enter'.

Next comes in a corporate. Google search. Say what you like, but nice to have a kind of power in its own mailbox:).

2. conversation. Like many e-mail users on a machine at home, I set POP- client. The last six months, he is not the case.

And not only that I was irretrievably spoiled instant and accurate postal search. Gmail has taught me that all the letters in my mail related to each other - in a logically valid chain.

Here is an example of convenience, this function: you send a letter to the theme of ' New Year's trip out of town ' 15 to your friends. Each of which corresponds to the letter, copying it to two or three of his friends. Each of which also responds to a letter ( they all love to ski, so coincided:) Question: How many letters with the same subject will be in your folder ' Inbox '?. If it's Gmail, then the answer is: a chain of.

Gmail will group the original letter, the responses to it, and your responses to the responses of friends as you would be most convenient to work with them - in the form of ' links of one chain ', sorted by time of receipt. By deploying the entire chain, you can in one browser window to see how much you'll need ski poles, who are responsible for the production of shish kebab, and who - for the construction of a snow fort, and how many friends have decided to stay in town and go to visit your aunt.

As soon as my POP client to learn to do it, I will come back to it. But not before: (.

3. Gmail. chat. How a letter to Gmail - it is not just a letter, and chat - much more than just chat. Gmail allows you to chat with the things that even in the bitter cold will warm the heart of anyone who has ever lost important information because it was handed over to chat, not the letter. Namely: the search for and display in a browser window as a logically valid chain.

That is, if you do not want to lose anything of what you can say. If you need to discuss with her uncle, her aunt that the best gift for Christmas, you can turn off the record - in both your Gmail account. Then my aunt did not know that she is preparing a surprise for the relatives, even if you go on courses hacking:).

Frankly, in Gmail are plenty of other features that make this a unique e-mail, but these seemed to me the most important. We hope that you will like to open them for themselves, and - welcome to Gmail!.

P. S. In Gmail discussion group earned in Russian! . forum.