Difference between Email and Gmail | Email vs Gmail

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As the internet has become an essential part of our lives, email and Gmail are commonly used mediums for communication. It not only is used to communicate via text but can also contain video, images, and documents in many formats.

Let us discuss these two tools below:

What is an Email?

It stands for electronic mail which is used to communicate digitally over the internet using laptops, computers, and smartphones. Email services are provided by many different service platforms like yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc. It also provides an inbuilt facility of the text editor to create compose and send new emails. Users are free to create more than one email accounts for communication purposes. Every user must have a unique email address for communication. Some features of email are

  • It is free to use.
  • One can send and receive various emails.
  • Allows us to attach video, images, documents, etc.
  • Helps to digitally store resources.
  • Provides paperless communication.

 

What is Gmail?

It is one of the email services used to send and receive messages via the internet. It is designed by Google. It can be used on various platforms like android Windows etc. It provides each user with 15 gigabytes of free data storage. However, the protocol used by Gmail is different from other email services.

POP-(post office protocol)enables users to download emails and attachments.

IMAP-enables user to access their email account from different devices. Some important features of Gmail are

  • The security feature is much more advanced than other email services.
  • Helps to detect the virus.
  • The spam filter automatically moves emails to the spam folder.
  • User can personalize their account like color, theme background, etc.
  • Single Gmail id can be used across Google play, youtube, Google docs, etc.

Let us now analyze the differences

Email

Gmail

Email means electronic mail.

Gmail means Google mail.

Security features are not strong enough.

Security features are very strong.

Advertisements are not a part of email.

Advertisements are included.

The scheduling feature is not available.

The scheduling feature is available.

Sync time is every 4 hours.

Sync time is every hour.

Difficult to configure.

Very easy to create an account and use it. 

Customizing features like themes etc is not available.

Various customizing features are available.