Desktop clients send email over Gmail using the simple mail transfer protocol. You can use the telnet program on your computer to connect to Gmail's SMTP server and verify the connection is working ...

Google's Blogger blogging service requires a Google account. If your company used a non-Gmail account to sign up for the blogging service, adding your personal Gmail account lets you author new blog ...

Google today announced it has made security improvements to Gmail to further protect users’ emails from snooping. Gmail now always uses an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email, and ...

Google announced Thursday that it will now encrypt emails sent through Gmail at all times, a change that comes following reports regarding the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance programs ...