Reading Gmail Email with No Internet Connection

With Offline Gmail, we can read our Gmail’s email offline:

Today we’re starting to roll out an experimental feature in Gmail Labs that should help fill in those gaps: offline Gmail. So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you’re used to.

Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you’re used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you’re on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you’re “borrowing” your neighbor’s wireless), you can choose to use “flaky connection mode,” which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background. 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.

Of course, it’s still in beta. And it’s still tried only in US or UK for next days. Be prepared, however, to always look over at your Gmail tab if the facility is already available for you. If it’s the case do the following:

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline0.1″ link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

Tags: gmail, google email, offline email

This entry was posted on January 28, 2009 at January 28, 2009 and is filed under Blogger Indonesia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Nurta San
January 28, 2009 at 9:03 am

very nice info! thanks

Xpresi Riau
January 28, 2009 at 10:05 am

Wew.. nice..

bung tobing
January 28, 2009 at 11:00 am

the phrase “borrowing your neighbor’s network” kind of tickled me, hahaha. that’s what exactly I always do

Arya
February 3, 2009 at 3:33 am

It’s nice info. But recently, I have problem with this feature. When open Gmail and try to find out my inbox, there message appear in my PC, galat, or problem loading and try loading in the next few second. Hopely this unconvenience won’t run for so long time. Because It’s really disturb me.