Email Clients
Normally, email accounts reside on a remote computer. To save online time, you need an email client program to be able to download emails from the remote server and store them on your computer. This way you can download all your emails at one go, close the Internet connection and read the mails when you want to. You may also write your email offline and later, when you next connect to the Internet you can instruct the client to send the emails you have written. An example of a client is on Windows, is Microsoft Outlook Express, very easy to use and comes free with the Internet Explorer browser from Microsoft.
Here are the basic things that a good email client has: (a) the ability to send and receive emails quickly, (b) the ability to easily attach pictures, sounds, and other non text based files using MIME; (c) and an address book in which you can store email addresses of your friends, family members and others.
