Gmail Curiosities
Ah, Gmail. Google's free email service has a well-earned reputation for speed, effective spam filtering, and (with a few well-publicized exceptions) reliability. Google offers a generous amount of storage space, and more is available for a fee.
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What's in a name: You can even use Gmail with your own domain name (if you have control of it) via Google Apps, the Standard Edition of which (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/) is free. Alternatively, you can set up your Gmail account with additional From addresses, as I describe in Change Your From Address.
If you use Gmail as your main email provider, you can access your account using Mail on your iPhone OS device (even if you have a custom domain name). I do this, and I am ...