Google seemed to have wanted to offer its clients something good enough so their mistake this week could be forgiven. After the connection to Gmail was on downtime for four hours, Google, which has worked for a year in trying to develop an offline mail client, has finally started to release it too.

Google succeeded last month, when it started to provide to its clients local access to their mail folders even if there is no connection to the Internet. The Gmail Offline is still working in an experimental and limited way, because for now, it can only synchronize up to 10,000 messages.

In addition, the service doesn’t allow its users to have offline access to other Google features, such as Documents or Calendar, even if the possibility exists in the future. This Google solution isn’t perfect and complete, but it’s a good chance to develop something bigger and effective. The Gmail Offline service is now offering free Web-based email access, which is more useful than before because it solves the problem of not having full access to the data you store in the email folders.

Reports show that the Gmail Offline was the only thing missing from Google and had been a really good reason for so few people using this Web mail service as a primarily delivery system. Thus, Google sets to forefront of the free Web-based email providers with their new service.

Gmail Offline is considered to be even better than other email delivery systems, such as Yahoo Mail, Windows Live (Hotmail and Messenger), or Microsoft Outlook, which works offline too. Gmail’s extra features includes the big amount of gigabytes of online storage so you might never need to erase some older messages from you email folders.