Google has Google Gears which lets you access your Gmail account offline. However, if you are a fan of Adobe Air, then you will like Geemail, an application that lets you access Gmail on your desktop and also offline.

Google is adding a lot of new features to Gmail like Gadgets, Emoticons, Canned responses, Mail Googles etc. Google is rolling out a new feature for Gmail which allows you to send SMS from your chat window in the left hand pane. The feature is available through the Gmail Labs and you will have to enable it from the settings page.

If you have a habit of sending email when in drunken state and later regretting about it, then this new Gmail feature is for you. Google has launched a new labs feature for gmail called Mail Goggles which will make you solve a set of math problems before sending a mail to determine if you are in the right state of mind or not.

Google seems to be paying more attention to Gmail security. A few days ago they added an option for remote log off and account tracking. Now they have added a new “Browser Connection” feature which allows users to use the “https” protocol while using there email.

Email Security is often our primary concern as our email contains a lot of personals as well as professional information. Our Web based email do give us the advantage of using it from anywhere. But what if we forget to sign out . Sometimes we just close the browser but the session remains open and any other person can access our information. To address such issues, Gmail has introduced the Remote Log off feature.

After a long wait, Google has enabled the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) support for gmail. Till now, it was POP3 only for external access. The introduction of IMAP will be a good news for users as it has several advantages over the traditional POP3.

With IMAP, users can now access the email through Desktop applications like outlook, thunderbird and all actions that are performed on the email like reading, deleting are synced between the clients and the server. So now if you log into Gmail through the web interface, all …

Finally after more than 2 years of its launch ,Google’s gmail service is now invitation free - anyone can directly register without being invited by another Gmail user . Representatives of Google say that they have decided to drop the invitation-only restriction because it is good for users. They now want to focus on the users’ needs first.
But one thing still remains …the beta status

Techcrunch is reporting that many Gmail users discovered that there Gmail mails and contacts were completlely deleted . The issue was detected in Google Group forum where a user posted that his whole Gmail mails , sent mails , contacts were completely wiped out .Several users responded by saying that they have also experianced the same thing .Many users pointed out that they were using FireFox 2.0 and there mails were open at the time when the deletion occured .