email clients and webmail (presentation)

1. Web-based email
Presentation by Sikai He

2. Web-based email or webmail is a term referring
to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed
via a web browser, as opposed to through an email
client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla's Thunderbird,
or Apple's Mail.
One of the earliest
Webmail services was
Hotmail.
Other very popular
webmail providers
include mail.com,
Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and
AOL.[1] See also
Comparison
of webmail providers.

3. Advantages of email
Using email is like composing or reading a paper message,
with several distinct differences:
It's faster.
It's more conversational.
It's easier to reference.

4. It's faster. Email is received almost immediately
after it is sent, usually within minutes.

5. It's more conversational.
Because of its immediacy, a
whole series of e-mail
messages may be exchanged
within
a very short time. As a result,
email messages tend to be
less formal and they are also
usually shorter and more to
the point.

6. It's easier to reference. The text of a previous email
message can easily be included as part of a reply to that
message. Thus, eemail correspondents are able to keep
the replies in context for each message. Including this
context is not only polite, but also makes an email message
more accurate and understandable.

7. Disadvantages of email
As we have seen, one of the biggest disadvantages of email is the
capability for misunderstanding.
Email has some other disadvantages as well.
It can be used to talk to more than one person at a time,
but the means for doing ，so can be a bit cumbersome.
At its core, email is a one - to - one communication medium.

8. E-mail client

9. An e-m
ail c
lie
nt, a
ka M
ail
User A
gent (M
UA), aka e
m
ail
reader
is a frontend com
puter program
used to m
anage e
m
ail.
Som
etim
es, the term
e
-m
ail clie
nt is
als
o used to r
efe
r
to any agent actin
g a
s a clie
nt tow
ard an e-m
ail
server,
independently
o
f it being a real M
UA, a rela
yin
g server,
or a hum
an typin
g directly
on a telnet term
in
al.
In add
ition,
a w
eb app
licati
on prov
iding
the rel
ev
ant
funct
io
nalit
y
Is somet
im
es
co
nsi
dered an e
mail client
.

10. Advantages of email clients
Ability to access your e-mail anytime, anywhere, from
any computer, with just an internet connection and a
working browser.
User can utilize many computers without compromising
ability to see all messages.
Nothing to take up valuable disk space. Built
in virus protection, district and personal
calendar and address book.

11. Disadvantages of email clients
With a Web based e-mail client, you must access your
messages via the Internet.
If your connection is inoperable, you will not be able to
read your messages.
Cannot use e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook
or Outlook Express.