Blogs, wikis, podcasts (Podcast), and RSS feeds have changed people's reliance on traditional portals, so people will change the experience of traditional email apps from Gmail. At the end of last century, when the first generation of internet arose, most of the free mailboxes we applied for were around 2M. At that time, many netizens ' network bandwidth ranged from 14.4K dial-up modems to 56K, but now the popularity of broadband over 512KB is already quite high. With the increasing bandwidth, the continuous decline of storage costs, the extension of users ' online time, e-mail as the core of Internet applications, must be transformed to adapt to today's network environment. Finally, the April 2004 famous internet search engine company Google launched the Gmail service, the so-called Gmail is 1GB e-mail, and now Gmail's mailbox capacity is expanded to 2GB.
The advent of Gmail has allowed us to see a new and more comprehensive Internet application model. Starting from Gmail, Sina, Yahoo, NetEase, etc. have launched a free 2GB mailbox. Access to Google Gmail is not the same as the traditional webmail mailbox application, you have to have Gmail friends invited to get an e-mail. When you get an invitation from a friend and log on to Gmail, you have a Gmail mailbox. After you become a Gmail user, you can also invite your own friends to join Gmail so that he can also feel Gmail's convenience, efficiency and versatility. When your friend accepts your invitation to become a Gmail user, the invitation can continue. Gmail users can now send 50-1000 invitations to their friends to get a free 2G gmail box. This move is very good to avoid the mail server hard disk space waste, the traditional online fill in the form of application forms can easily cause a single multiple applications caused by waste. 2GB's mailbox is almost no one's enough. Below is the Linux network environment of Gmail application techniques.
First, let Gmail also support POP3 receipt, SMTP letter
Previously we had to log on to the Web page to receive emails from Gmail, and now Gmail also supports POP3, SMTP transceiver processing mail. Note that the situation in Gmail does not automatically enable the POP function, you need to manually set up the completion of the operation methods are as follows: