Gmail
Is a Free Email Service Provided By Google. As Of 2019, it had 1.5 billions active Users Worldwide. A User Typically Accesses Gmail in a web browser or the Official mobile App. Google also Supports the use of email clients via the POP and IMAP protocols.
AT its Launch in 2004,Gmail provided a storage capacity of one gigabyte per User.
Which was Significantly higher than its competitors offered at the time. Today, the service comes with 15 gigabytes of storage. users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes .in size, including attachments, while they can send emails up to 25 megabytes .In Order to send larger-file ,Users can insert file from Google Drive Into to an Internet forum. The Service is notable among website developers for its early Adoption of Ajax.
Google's Mail Servers Automatically Scan Emails For Multiple Purposes, Including to Filter Spam And Malware, And To Add Context-Sensitive advertisements next to emails.
This Advertising Practice has been significantly criticized by privacy advocates due to concerns over unlimited data retention, ease of monitoring by third parties, Users of other email providers not having agreed to the policy upon Sending emails to Gmail addresses, And the potential for Google to changes its policies to further decrease privacy by combining information with other Google Data Usage. the company has been subject of lawsuits concerning the issues.
Google has started that email users must :Necessarily Expect" their displaying ads next to potentially sensitive messages, such as those mentioning race, Religion, Sexual Orientation, health, or Financial Statements. In June 2017,
Google announced the end to the use of contextual Gmail content for advertising purposes, relying instead on data gathered from the use of its other services
Features:
- Storage
One April 1, 2004, Gmail was launched with one Gigabyte (GB) Of Storage space, a Significantly higher amount than competitors at the time.
Storage
- On April 1, 2004, Gmail was launched with one gigabyte (GB) of storage space, a significantly higher amount than competitors offered at the time.[4]
- On April 1, 2005, the first anniversary of Gmail, the limit was doubled to two gigabytes of storage. Georges Harik, the product management director for Gmail, stated that Google would "keep giving people more space forever."[5]
- On April 24, 2012, Google announced the increase of storage included in Gmail from 7.5 to 10 gigabytes ("and counting") as part of the launch of Google Drive.[6]
- On May 13, 2013, Google announced the overall merge of storage across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ Photos, allowing users 15 gigabytes of included storage among three services.[7][8]
- On August 15, 2018, Google launched Google One, a service where users can pay for additional storage, shared among Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos, through a monthly subscription plan. As of 2021, storage of up to 15 gigabytes is included, and paid plans are available for up to 2 terabytes for personal use.[9]
There are also storage limits to individual Gmail messages. Initially, one message, including all attachments, could not be larger than 25 megabytes.[10] This was changed in March 2017 to allow receiving an email of up to 50 megabytes, while the limit for sending an email stayed at 25 megabytes.[11][12] In order to send larger files, users can insert files from Google Drive into the message.[13]