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Work on Gmail, Whether Online or Off

I've been using Gmail for my personal email account for about 8 months now, and I love it -- it is far and away the best webmail tool out there. But one thing keeping it back is the lack of an archiving feature, to allow users to back up their email to a local file. But last week, Google fixed that by rolling out offline email. It uses the Google Gears tool to create an offline version of your email, so you can view and compose email when you don't have an Internet connection. Gmail will determine how much of your email to archive, depending on how much email you have online. Even if you don't need a way to access your mail offline, this is a great way to archive your email, in case something happens to go wrong with the online version. To enable Offline Gmail, you'll first need to download and install Google Gears (unless you are using Chrome as your browser, where it's already installed), and then go to Google Labs, and enable Offline Gmail. It will take some time to sync your offline version, and from then on will sync quietly in the background.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).