What is new with our favorite web based e-mail? Recently on Gmail Official blog they posted about the new Gmail feature that enable users to access their Gmail account Offline. This feature will help the users to access and read their messages even if they have lost the Connection or there is no available connection. Gmail uses Gears to download the local cache of your mail as long as you are connected to the network. It is synchronized with the Gmail servers. Your messages are saved on your hard disk. To use this feature you have to enable it first on the Settings tab on your Gmail account. After that, click the Offline tab to install offline access for Gmail. It is only on a testing stage so don’t be harsh to Gmail if something wrong happens. After the install you can now access your email even if you don’t have connection. If you will ask about sending email, of course you cannot send email if you don’t have internet connection. But the good thing is all your message that you sent offline are saved on your outbox and will automatically sent of you gain the connection.  Gmail automatically go to offline mode if you lose the connection. Another feature is setting your email to “flaky connection mode” if you have unreliable internet connection or slow connection. It will use the cache but still synchronized to the server. According to Gmail “Our goal is to provide nearly the same browser-based Gmail experience whether you're using the data cached on your computer or talking directly to the server.”

If you will ask about what if you uses another computer to access your Gmail account with your offline Gmail is enabled does Gmail download your messages on that computer? I don’t think so, because I think you must repeat the process of activating offline access on that computer to make your account available to offline access on that computer. By the way Gmail is welcoming feedback about this new feature. Check out their Official blog.