Gmail Offline is a Google Chrome Web Store app that was designed to aid when you need to read or manage your emails without an Internet connection. This web app is based on the Gmail web app for tablets — if you remember in a previous article I showed you a trick to use the iPad version of Gmail in Google Chrome –. The search giant is also rolling out offline access for Calendar and Docs, but they are not available just yet; Google Chrome users can use Gmail Offline right now, and here is how:  

  1.  Visit the Chrome Web Store and install the Offline Google Mail web app.
  2.  Once that is done, open a new tab and you will be asked if you wish to Allow offline mail.  Make your choice and then click Continue. And this is pretty much what you have to do.

Now, you can use Offline Google Mail app when you are online as well as with the traditional web access, but when you find yourself in a place without an Internet connection, just simply launch Google Chrome and open the new Gmail Offline web app. Then you will be able to compose, respond, read, star, apply labels, and archive messages. Once there is, once again, an internet connection the app will sync with Google’s servers to complete the tasks (e.g., send your offline emails).

Things to consider using this app:

Gmail Offline web app still in beta, which means that is not 100% completed, but this should not be a surprise from Google. Depending on the amount of data in your inbox, this Google Chrome app will download and store about 3-7 days worth of emails and all starred emails. So make sure that if you need to work offline with specific emails, remember to star them. If you wish to delete the locally stored inbox in the computer, do the following:

  1.  Open Google Chrome and in the address bar type chrome://settings/cookies and press Enter.
  2.  Do a search for mail.google.com, hover over all the search results and click X to delete them.

On last thing — Uninstalling the Google Chrome web app will NOT delete the stored offline data.

Source The Official Gmail BlogAs I said above Gmail Offline HTML5 web app is available now, Calendar and Docs offline are on their way as Google has said in The Official Gmail Blog:” Google Calendar and Google Docs will be rolling out over the next week, starting today”.  All content on this site is provided with no warranties, express or implied. Use any information at your own risk. Always backup of your device and files before making any changes. Privacy policy info.