Just after Christmas, many Chinese found that they could not connect to Gmail anymore in mainland China. Since Google announced leaving from China in 2010, the web version of Gmail was not accessible anymore. But people from China could still access Gmail through some Gmap apps. This time, Gmail is not accessible even with these apps.It is said that all the mail service protocols of Gmail including IMAP/POP/SMTP have been cut out by Chinese government. This means no mails can be sent to or received from Gmail servers. This cut out has a big impact on Chinese users since many Chinese use it as ...

On 29 May, Google announced the new Gmail inbox. The biggest change is users can categorize their mails. Today the new Gmail inbox is finally available. Now we can put a lot of different types of email: messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations and receipts, and more into different categories.By default, Gmail provides three different tabs : Primary, Social and Promotions at the inbox page. You can know what to read and what are the priority mails as a glance. Some important friends and starred mails will be put into the Primary tab, mails from social medias ...

Sometimes when we need to use email service provided by WAMP, we need to use some remote mail server such as Gmail. In Gmail, if we want to use the SMTP server to send email and want to use port 465, then the SSL connection should be setup. But by default in WAMP, the ssl is not usable. So to allow use SSL, what we should do is go to system tray and click PHP->PHP Extensions->php_openssl. Then now you can use Gmail to send email easily....