Gmail labs introduced feature to access gmail account when you are offline.
When offline access is enabled, Gmail will open in your browser even if you don’t have an Internet connection. You can read messages, star, label and archive them, compose new mail and messages ready to be sent will wait in your Outbox until you’re online again. This will be helpful while traveling, if you want read or send email while you don’t have access to the internet.
It’s built on the Gears platform, which has already been used to offline-enable Google Docs, Google Reader, and other third-party web applications like wordpress.
To get started with offline Gmail -
- Sign in to Gmail and click ‘Settings’.
- Click the ‘Labs’ tab and select ‘Enable’ next to ‘Offline Gmail’.
- Click ‘Save Changes.’
- Click on the ‘Offline’ link present in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username to start the offline synchronization process.
Standard Edition users can follow these instructions immediately, while Premier and Education Edition users will first need their domain admins to enable Gmail Labs from the Google Apps admin control panel.
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