Thread: The crucial features

First let's make a key distinction between the two main types of email application. Desktop systems (such as Outlook Express) are installed on your hard disk and access your email via the internet from your ISP's email server, where the messages sent to you are stored before you download them. Webmail services, In do away with the PC software and instead operate as a website. The advantage of this is that you can access and send messages, and consult your address book, from any internet-connected computer.