What is gmail?

mstang67chic

Going Green
It's a free email provider through Google. If you go to gmail.com you can sign up for an email account if you want.

And that's my whole reply! LOL
 

Star*

call 911........call 911
It's when you finally sit down at your computer with a good drink and click on your MAIL icon and have some.

Then you say G.......mail.
 

KTMom91

Well-Known Member
I just opened a gmail account, after att was being uncooperative, and I had to have email. Of course, now I have email in three different places...
 

trinityroyal

Well-Known Member
KTMom, one of the wonderful things about gmail is that you can configure it to receive mail from all of your other accounts.

I have about 12 different e-mail addresses(don't ask), but they are all consolidated under my main gmail account. All e-mail lands in the same inbox, clearly labelled with the e-mail address it was mailed to, so I know where it came from.

The interface is a little different from most other e-mail accounts and takes some getting used to, but I can't imagine going back to any of the other services.

Trinity
 

trinityroyal

Well-Known Member
Also it can talk to you somehow.

Yes, it can.

Gmail incudes its own instant message interface, called Google Chat. There's also a VOIP phone program called Google Talk. As long as you have a microphone and speakers or a microphone-enabled headset, you can "phone" people through Google Talk at no charge. They have to have a Gmail and Google Talk account set up as well, but it works pretty well. It's similar to Skype and other such services.

I don't use the Chat or the Talk very much. Same reason I don't use the phone. I don't like the interruptions in real time, and I find it hard to string the words together. I'd much rather have people e-mail me, and then I have time to think about what I want to say, etc. before responding.
 
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