Gmail - is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB, which is larger than many other mail services support. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux. As of June 2012, it is the most widely used web-based email provider with over 425 million active users worldwide.
Storage - The Gmail service currently provides more than 10 GB of free storage per account. Users can rent additional storage (shared between Picasa Web Albums, Google Drive and Gmail) from 25 GB (US$2.49/month) to 16 TB (US$799.99/month), but only 15 GB of this additional storage will apply to Gmail, in effect limiting Gmail storage to 25 GB total. On April 1, 2005, the first anniversary of Gmail, Google announced an increase from 1 GB. Georges Harik, the product management director for Gmail, stated that Google would "keep giving people more space forever."
On April
24, 2012, Gmail announced the increase of free storage in Gmail from 7.5 GB to
10 GB ("and counting") as part of the launch of Google Drive. At the same time, Gmail users
became unable to upgrade the size of their e-mail inbox beyond a 30GB limit,
irrespective of their price plan.
On May
13, 2013 Google announced the merge of their free storage across Gmail, Google
Drive, & Google+ Photos allowing users up to 15GB of free storage to use
across their accounts.
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