Lesson 1. Essential Gmail

Welcome to Gmail, Google’s famous online mail program used by millions of people. In this lesson, you’ll get a guided tour of what Gmail can do.

Gmail is the world’s most popular online mail program, and you’re going to see just why that is in this book, as you get a guided tour of Gmail.

This first lesson serves as an overview of Gmail, showing you what’s available so you know what it’s capable of. The actual in-depth details appear in the upcoming lessons.

Gmail has become endlessly more powerful and extended than what it was when it was first introduced. Graduating from a simple email program, it now is a rich and somewhat complex online application that does just about all any mail program could do with the addition ...

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