Gmail – One of the Best Email Service Providers

No doubt, many of you already have multiple email accounts registered with different email services. Services have changed much in recent years with even email protocols changed from the evergreen POP3 to the new standards of IMAP.

I have account in few email service providers like Gmail, yahoo, rediffmail,  in.com etc. Among them I found Gmail to be the best one. Gmail is simple and one of the most used services on the Internet. Gmail gives you ample customization options along with the possibility to be just used for emails alone. With a Gmail account, your inbox has 7.5 GB of available storage space for both emails and attachments. The attachment size provided by Gmail is also the largest at 25MB.

The security features in Gmail also push it above the others not only does it have SSL, it also provides TLS (Transport layer Security) which is a step SSL. Along with POP3 support, it has IMAP support, so that you can remotely access your email from anywhere without downloading to your PC. The IMAP feature is not found in other email services.

Gmail allows users to manage their emails more efficiently with filters, colour co-ordinatet labels, search features. Along with email functions, you can chat at the same time as checking your emails, and with Google Docs, any word, Excel or PowerPoint document can be instantly opened for reading or editing, straight from the email. Transliteration is another feature of Gmail.

Also important is Gmail Labs. Apart from this great features, the few drawbacks of Gmail include the distracting ad line (some might like those ads but many of us don’t). Another disadvantage is that you can’t send exe files as attachments, even if it is wrapped in a zipped file. What’s the reason for this, Gmail says that it is because of security issue. Also, no images can be added to the signature with BB codes or html codes.