Google's free gigabyte

Google announced a free email service, promising a Gigabyte of storage to each user.

"The idea is that your mail can stay in there forever," said Wayne Rosing, vice president of engineering at Google. "You can always index it, always search it, and always find things from the past."

That's a neat idea, but I wonder if you can store attachments, and how big those attachments can be? That makes all the difference. Link