Gmail Features

The last section compares Gmail with two other popular Web-based e-mail programs. There are features that are unique to Gmail and certainly provide a strong reason to select and use Gmail for all your e-mail needs. A big feature internationally is being able to use Gmail in your own language.

In your language

Like many Google services, Gmail is available in 36 languages; 38 if you count American and the United Kingdom’s English, simplified and traditional Chinese as different languages. Other languages available include Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Gmail not only allows you to view the Gmail interface in these other languages, it also has spell-check capability in at least 30 languages.

Note 

Google Gmail does not accept executable programs (.exe extension) as attachments.

Forwarding and POP features

The two Web-based e-mail programs that have forwarding and POP features are Gmail and Yahoo Mail. The ability to forward messages means that you can receive e-mail in your Web-based mail program and choose to automatically forward the messages to another e-mail account, perhaps a corporate account that you want to keep private.

The POP feature allows you to check and manage Gmail using a different e-mail client such as Thunderbird or Outlook. POP (Post Office Protocol) servers are e-mail servers your software contacts to retrieve e-mail.

Rich text e-mail

People have become accustomed to the ability to format their e-mail messages using rich text, the kind of text formatting found in word processing software. Gmail offers this type of formatting in Web-based e-mail. You can now use features such as font changes, color text, indenting, bullet and number lists, and more.

Never send a boring e-mail message again. E-mail written in rich text is sent as HTML, readable by most modern e-mail programs and Web-based e-mail programs.