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Gmail is the email service provided by Google.As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. [1] It also provides a webmail interface, accessible through a web browser, and is also accessible through the official mobile application.
While most of these services are individually available at no cost to consumers who use their free Google (Gmail) accounts, Google Workspace adds enterprise features such as custom email addresses at a domain (e.g. @your), an option for unlimited Drive storage, administrative tools and advanced settings, as well as 24/7 phone and email support. [2]
A Google Account is required for Gmail, Google Hangouts, Google Meet and Blogger. Some Google products do not require an account, including Google Search, YouTube, Google Books, Google Finance and Google Maps. However, an account is needed for uploading videos to YouTube and for making edits in Google Maps.
The format of an email address is local-part@domain, where the local-part may be up to 64 octets long and the domain may have a maximum of 255 octets. [5] The formal definitions are in RFC 5322 (sections 3.2.3 and 3.4.1) and RFC 5321—with a more readable form given in the informational RFC 3696 (written by J. Klensin, the author of RFC 5321) and the associated errata.
From: The email address, and, optionally, the name of the author(s). Some email clients are changeable through account settings. Date: The local time and date the message was written. Like the From: field, many email clients fill this in automatically before sending. The recipient's client may display the time in the format and time zone local ...
Users who signed up after the name change receive a googlemail.com address, although a reverse of either in the sent email would 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. [42]
Gmail and Yahoo are two examples of free email services with a public domain. Individual and personal use is more appropriate for these. Large mailboxes are housed on a server as part of shared hosting email services. Because they are all hosted on the same server, those using a shared hosting email service share IP addresses.
Gmail allows users to conduct advanced searches using either the Advanced Search interface or through search operators in the search box. Emails can be searched by their text; by their ‘From’, ‘To’ and ‘Subject’ fields, by their location, date and size; by associated labels, categories and circles, by whether or not the message is read, and by whether or not the message has an ...