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Gmail is the email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. [1]
A Google Account is required for Gmail, Google Hangouts, Google Meet and Blogger. Some Google products do not require an account, including Google Search, YouTube, Google Books, Google Finance and Google Maps. However, an account is needed for uploading videos to YouTube and for making edits in Google Maps.
On 12 December 2008, Gmail added support for PDF viewing within the browser. [25] On 24 February 2009, Gmail suffered a two and a half hour outage, affecting 100 million accounts. [26] On 7 July 2009, Gmail officially exited its beta status in a move to attract more business use of the service. [27] [28]
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[nb 1] [19] [20] [21] DEC's ALL-IN-1 and Hewlett-Packard's HPMAIL (later HP DeskManager) were released in 1982; development work on the former began in the late 1970s and the latter became the world's largest selling email system. [22] [23] The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) was implemented on the ARPANET in 1983.
The format of an email address is local-part@domain, where the local-part may be up to 64 octets long and the domain may have a maximum of 255 octets. [5] The formal definitions are in RFC 5322 (sections 3.2.3 and 3.4.1) and RFC 5321—with a more readable form given in the informational RFC 3696 (written by J. Klensin, the author of RFC 5321) and the associated errata.
OAuth (short for open authorization [1] [2]) is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.