After months of experimenting and anticipation, Google finally feels confident enough to release offline GMail feature into the wild. Offline mode should help fill in those gaps when you don't have Internet connection but still need access to your messages, such as during commuting or flights. Offline mode means you can point your browser to gmail.com and get to your mail just like you're used to. "Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there's one little catch: it's inherently limited by your internet connection," says Google. With offline mode, a local cache of messages in your Gmail account are downloaded to your computer. As long as you're connected to the Internet, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. The only thing that distinguishes offline mode from online is a little icon at the top righthand corner of Gmail window. Offline mode lets you read messages, star and label them, and do pretty much everything you would do if you were online. Users can also write new messages with attachments and "send" them. In reality though, these messages go to the outbox folder and will be automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. Google even addressed cases when users are on unreliable or slow connection, citing example when "you're 'borrowing' your neighbor's wireless. In these instances users can choose "flaky connection mode," which is somewhere in between: It uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background
Source: TG daily
Enough said.....This is some really good news for all the Gmail users, I can't believe that i'll be able to check my email offline, this is some really good news from google!!!
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