Best Free Email Client?

[OilKiller]

Originally Posted by QuadCityImages

I've never really understood what the point is, in this day and age, of email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. It used to be that you could download your email and view it offline, but when is anyone offline anymore? I'm not exactly in the corporate world, so maybe there's some obvious reason that business people don't use web mail interfaces?

Because I prefer the look and feel of an email client over viewing/responding to email in a browser window.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

No. Firefox is a web browser. Email clients can be web-based (gmail) or desktop (outlook, thunderbird). An email provider like Gmail can provide the email service and a client. You can use the Gmail web client to receive mail for any POP account you want.

lol. oops, I failed. I meant to say Thunderbird.