You can only get a Free Gmail Account, by invite only and yes, I do have some invites to give away!I was intending on selling these on ebay, but then I decided to give them away.
All I ask is that you contact me via my ebay page.
You can setup your own Free Gmail account which can store over 2GB of messages.
News on Gmail November 2004, Gmail offers free forwarding and POP3:
Google on Wednesday 10th November 2004 threw another bone to customers of Gmail, its free Web-based e-mail service. The Mountain View, California based company now allows people to download e-mail from any third-party account or forward their Gmail for free, or what's called POP (Post Office Protocol) access. Using the feature, people can send Gmail e-mail to mobile devices, such as a Blackberry, or to Microsoft Outlook. The company, whose offer of 1 gigabyte of mail storage prompted rivals to follow suit with added storage, said it does not have any plans to charge for either feature.
Using Gmail and keeping your email address
The thing I find perfect about a Gmail account is that you can change the outgoing (reply to) address to whatever you want, say, rick@mycompany.com, rather than rick@gmail.com.
What I do is my standard POP3 mailbox (provided by yur ISP for example) forwards to my Gmail account. Where I can read it at www.google.com/gmail and I also set the options in the Gmail account to forward the mail to my Outlook POP3 account. This means a copy of all my email is held on the Gmail account and in my Outlook Inbox folder.
A real advantage of this is that Gmail has fantastic Spam filtering options
Gmail Accounts as Presents
Gmail accounts make ideal cheap Christmas presents for friends and family
The format can be:
- formal name e.g. Ted.Sunbeam@gmail.com
- internet nickname e.g. serrechesnowboarder@gmail.com
- girlfriend's nickname e.g. babygirl@gmail.com
- mother's name e.g. mummylomas@gmail.com
A Google approach to email.
Gmail is a new kind of web based email, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. The key features are:
- Search, don't sort.
- Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
- Don't throw anything away.
- 1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
- Keep it all in context.
- Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
- No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
- You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.
What does an invite look like?
It’s an email that looks like this;
Sample Gmail InviteI've been using Google mail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. ricklomas has invited you to open a free Gmail account. The invitation will expire in three weeks and can only be used to set up one account. To accept this invitation and register for your account, visit http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-e2251ab978-9135d4f0af-7d1be96484 Once you create your account, ricklomas will be notified with your new @gmail.com address so you can stay in touch with Gmail! If you haven't already heard about Gmail, it's a new search-based webmail service that offers:
- 1,000 megabytes (one gigabyte) of free storage - Built-in Google search that instantly finds any message you want - Automatic arrangement of messages and related replies into "conversations" - Text ads and related pages that are relevant to the content of your messages
Gmail is still in an early stage of development. If you set up an account, you'll be able to keep it even after we make Gmail more widely available and as one of the system's early testers, you will be helping us improve the service through your feedback. We might ask for your comments and suggestions periodically and we appreciate your help in making Gmail even better.
Thanks,
The Gmail Team
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