Quick Google Tip – Taking Gmail Offline

Even though you can grab Internet access pretty much anywhere nowadays, sometimes you may find your connectivity unavailable but you need to get to your email. Gmail has a nice feature that allows it to go offline and be accessible to you as you need it. You can read email, flag them etc, and if you respond to emails they will simply remain in your Outbox until the system detects a connection when they will be sent automatically.

Try it; to enable this feature:

  • Click Settings and next to the Labs tab look for “Offline”
  • Select Enable next to Offline Gmail
  • Click Save Changes

note: Your OS needs to support Gears (the program that makes this all happen) and most do, except for safari 4 on Macs running Snow Leopard (yes, I am on a Mac using Safari running Snow Leopard :) ) but it will work in Firefox.


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