Difference between revisions of "Google Mail"

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Revision as of 10:21, 27 February 2015

Google Mail or "Gmail" is a free email service hosted by Google. Google also provides "Gmail" for educational institutions which is known as Google Apps for Education (GAFE).

Recently Gmail has provided 15GBs worth of free storage for Mail, Drive (documents) and Photos for consumer accounts, while GAFE accounts have unlimited storage.

Attachment size limits

Google has a relativity low attachment size limit of 25MB as they prefer users to save large files in Google Drive and then share the files to your friends/colleagues. The largest size file that you can upload to Google Drive is 5TB.

Sharing Drive document

While composing a message you can link to a Google Drive document in composition window.

  1. Click on the Drive icon
  2. Choose document
  3. Choose Insert As: Drive link or Attachment
  4. Click insert
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