Last updated: 26 September 2009
Emailing -  gMail/Google Mail

Email has become the standard way of communicating with others online, whether it be friends, family, colleagues, teachers or fellow students. 

Many people use a desktop email client like Outlook, but web-mail has now become very popular. In fact, gMail is the highest ranked email client in our Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list. You can read the comments from those who selected it here.

What's different about gMail.  This is what they say

Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that combines the best features of traditional email with Google's search technology. Gmail makes locating messages so easy that you'll never need to shuffle mail in your inbox again. Besides offering an entirely new way of reading and tracking messages, Gmail includes over 5 GB of storage space -- and we'll keep giving you more space as we're able. Best of all, it's free.

With gMail you can:

• send email to your contacts
• organise and sort mail
• create labels and apply them to group related messages together
• set up filters
• search your emails
• chat with your Gmail contacts

To find out how to get started, use the Gmail Getting Started guide.

Consider setting up a gMail account.  Go to mail.google.com

For advanced users, here are a few tips

• Create supplemental addresses by adding a + after your user name
• Import old email into gMail, for more on this, read: Tips for importing old email to GmailGmail Blog, 28 March 2008
• Send email from other email address: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"Office GMail blog, 30 July 2009
• Set up Outlook to work with gMail: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13278&topic=1556
• Use gMail on your mobile phone. Find out more here and access mobile gmail here: m.google.com/gmail

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Top Tools: Top 100 Tools for Learning : gMail
Further reading: gMail Reading List
Directory listing: Email, SMS, Voice & Video Messaging tools