Lesson 2. Signing Up for Gmail

In this lesson, we’ll show you how to get started by signing up for Gmail and taking a look around.

Welcome to Gmail—Google’s extremely popular online email application. This book is your guided tour of Gmail from start to finish.

Gmail is email taken to the next level—it’s email made fun. Gmail offers many advantages that we’ll get familiar with in this book, such as a virtually spam-free environment.

Nobody’s quite sure how Google does it, but Gmail really is virtually spam free. That alone is a huge selling point for Gmail. In an age where legislators refuse to curb spam and ISPs are choked with it, coming to Gmail is a revelation to many. Imagine—no spam! I thought my ISP’s spam filter was a good one when it ...

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