Gmail is a free POP3, IMAP and webmail service provided by Google.[1][2] In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.
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. Although over 100 million users[3][4][5][6] have taken advantage of stable releases for years, to this day[update] the service remains in beta status.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. The service currently offers over 7300 MB of free storage with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for $20 to $500 (US) per year.[7][8][9]
Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its use of the Ajax programming technique.[10]
Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which run on Linux
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