What is Gmail? - Quick Facts - Screenshots - FAQ What is Gmail? As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we're testing an email service called Gmail. Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes more than 2,000 megabytes (two gigabytes) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly finds any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them again. When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages. http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html Many of us here have invitations. At this time, Gmail accounts are only available by invitation. Elaine Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. --Mark Twain Hello Mary On Friday, May 27, 2005, you wrote > I must have missed something. Please explain "gmail". Thanks. Mary