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Google Labs has now released the long awaited Offline viewing option for its famous Email client Gmail. So now you can sync your mail and read it offline if you wish. It does require you to install Google Gears found here. and it will only sync you newest 10,000 messages but that should be enough for most people.  Then its pretty easy to enable the offline settings. It works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but if you set it up on Firefox the decide to switch to IE you will need to perforn the install again and vise versa.

The first thing to do is see if you were offered it yet. Google say’s its rolling it out over the next few days so if you don’t have it yet you will be shortly.

So here goes, Head over to your inbox and click the little green beaker to get to the Labs section.

Look for Offline and click Enable.

Scroll doen to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

You will now be taken back to your inbox. At the top of the page next to Settings you will now notice a new option called Offline. Go ahead and give it a click.

You can now click next to install offline access.

Place a check mark in the I trust this site to use Google Gears. If you click Deny and want to change you mind later you will need to sign out of Gmail then sign back in and start the process over. This will give Google permission to use your hard drive to store your mail.

Create a shortcut next so you an access Gmail offline.

Now the installation will complete.

And the Synchronizing begins, depending on the amount of mail you have and the speed of your internet connection this could take a few minutes or in my case about an hour.  The good news is you can still use Gmail while your waiting.

Now you’re all set of offline use.

And now back to your setting screen.

That all there is to it.

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