Chapter 8. Using Gmail

In this chapter, you learn how to send and receive email with Gmail.

Everybody has an email account—at least one. You probably have a home email account from your Internet service provider (perhaps with additional addresses for your spouse and kids), and a work email account. Chances are you also have a web-based email account from Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, as either a backup or just to have it.

Why, then, would you want yet another email account? And from Google, of all places?

Well, Google offers some compelling reasons to switch to or augment your current email service with Gmail, its own web-based email service. Gmail competes with Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, but it has some unique features. It’s also part ...

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