FREE Gmail Email Account

We are giving out FREE Gmail Invites as a friendly gesture, exclusively for India Forums Members!

If you would like an invite please contact one of the following, by PM or Email:

Invitees, please check the invited section before you send invites! Thanks

Hey Meera,

"Tumne meri aankhen khol di" 😆

You know I had 50 Gmail invites for quite sometime now and I didnt even thought about it (Silly Me). Ok I am with you. For all those who need GMail Accounts do send a PM with your email address to Meera and she'll send you Gmail invites.

Once she exhausts all her invites she will post it here. And then you all can send a PM to me.

Others also who want to help can form a chain that way.

Cheers,
Vijay

1. What makes Gmail different?
2. How do I sign up? When can I get a Gmail account?
3. What about spam?
4. What does Gmail do to prevent viruses?
6. What about privacy?
7. Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.

1. What makes Gmail different?

Gmail uses Google search technology to automatically organize and find messages. And because Gmail includes 1,000 megabytes of storage, a typical user won't ever have to worry about deleting mail. Everything just gets archived so it can be found again if needed.

There are other differences in the way Gmail provides access to your email. For example, Gmail automatically groups an email and the replies to it as a conversation. That means you always see a message in its proper context. And there are no pop-ups or banner ads in Gmail, just relevant text ads and links to related pages. Gmail's other distinctive features include a labeling system, a spam reporter and a system for filtering your mail as it comes into your inbox. Learn more.

2. How do I sign up? When can I get a Gmail account?

We're currently only offering Gmail as part of a preview release and limited test. We don't have details on when Gmail will be made more widely available, as that depends in part on the results of the test.

3. What about spam?

We are committed to keeping unwanted messages out of your inbox. Gmail includes a sophisticated spam filter that we're continuing to improve. The Report Spam button in Gmail is a way for users to help with this effort. It removes spam from the inbox and sends valuable data to the Gmail team working on spam blocking.

4. What does Gmail do to prevent viruses?

We take the security of our users very seriously. Most computer viruses are contained in executable files, but while standard virus detectors scan messages for executable files that appear to be viruses, Gmail takes this one step further by not allowing executable files to be sent or received.

5. Are there ads in Gmail?

Yes, but they are small and unobtrusive. They don't fill half your screen and we don't make you read them just to get to your inbox. Ads are never inserted into the body text of either incoming or outgoing Gmail messages and you won't see any pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail.

Gmail users only see relevant text ads, similar to those on Google search results pages . The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers.

Ads are matched using the same technology that powers the Google AdSense program, which already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them. Here's a sneak peek of how ads look in Gmail.

6. What about privacy?

Google respects our users' privacy. For details, please see the Gmail Privacy Policy. Google also take several steps to guard the confidentiality of users' information by offering a number of industry-leading protections. To learn more, please visit our section on Gmail and privacy.

7. Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.

Just Launched!

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It's like seeing the trailer before you see the movie. Now you can get a sneak preview of your attachments.

Free access to your own stuff
It's your mail. You should be able to choose how and where you read it. Access your mail the way you want to, with free POP access and automatic forwarding. You can even switch to other email services without having to worry about losing access to your messages. Think of it as email portability.

• Free POP access
  Download your messages. Read them offline. Use your Blackberry or Outlook or just the good ol' web.
  
  
• Free automatic forwarding
  Forward new incoming messages to any email account you specify.

What's been keeping us busy

• Import Contacts
  You've made a list. You've checked it twice. Now you never have to check it again. Move all your contacts from Yahoo! Mail, Outlook, and others to Gmail in just a few clicks. Then simply rely on our auto-complete feature to fill in your addresses as you're typing. Keep all your contacts in one place and keep in touch with all of them using Gmail.
  
  
• Gmail Notifier
  Want to know if you've got new mail? Let us do the checking so you don't have to. Find out when new messages arrive, and even see their subjects, senders and snippets, all without having to open a web browser.
• Search your contacts
  With the new and improved Contacts list, search for a contact as easily as you would a message in Gmail. Add notes and phone numbers. View messages directly from the Contacts list.
  
  
• Signature options
  From the settings page, create a signature that's automatically added to the end of all your outgoing messages. Change it as often as you like, but always get the last word.
• Safari browser support (versions 1.2.1 and newer).
  
  
• And last but not least...Save Drafts!

No more folders, filing or fumbling to find your mail

Email is supposed to be a productivity tool. So why spend time filing messages, then later trying to remember where you put them? And why delete important mail just to stay within some arbitrary storage limit?

Gmail makes email easy. With 1000 megabytes of free storage, you never need to throw messages away. And with a powerful built-in Google search engine, you no longer need to set up folders, file your mail, or remember where you stored your messages. Just search for what you want. You'll not only find the message you have in mind, but all the other messages that are part of the same conversation – arranged in chronological order so you can easily put everything in context.

Originally posted by: Meera

Nice one HUMM!! Can always count on you to give us the technical information and thanks Vijay! 😉

I HAVE SOME INVITES TOO......SO IF ANYONE WANTS A GMAIL ACCOUNT PM ME AND I'LL SEND U AN INVITE.

Can we keep the invites strictly to email and PM bases.. That way we only give out 1 invite per user.

how would we know that one person has send a PM to only one person and not all of us with diff email id's.

i would suggest that if anyone PM's anyone of us, we should post the name in this thread, that these people have got an invite. this way we will have a track and no one will more than one invite. everytime we get a PM we can come back here and see if the person with that username has already got an invite or not. i hope that helps.