Offline GMail

Gmail is a great email tool, but what happens when you have no internet connection but still need access to your email and attachment history.

Gmail has an offline mode, it is not enabled by default, but it is easy to setup, and means you can keep working, even when you have no internet connection.

To set this up, log in to your Gmail account, go to Settings, and choose Offline from the menu.
Once you have applied it starts to copy your emails and you will see a progress report like this one:

By default "Enable Offline Mode" is not checked. Simple check this and apply. If you don't change any settings all you email and attachments for the last year will be copied to an offline cache. There will be shortcuts created that allow you to access the offline mode even when your internet connection is down. Obviously you cannot send and receive emails in this mode, but you can do most of the other things you would normally do, such a read, search and sort emails.