Assignment 5
What is the differences between Web-based Email and Client Email Program?
web-based email is a email service that can be accessed by using a web browser. There are a variety of web-based email such as gmail, hotmail and yahoo. Web-based email can be accessed by a client anytime anywhere as long as the client remembers the email address and password. Client email program is used to download email from the email server by using a program such as outlook or thunderbird.
Briefly explain all Client Email Program that you know.
Mail is a client email program found in iOS devices. The Mail apps in iOS devices is designed to work using iCloud and also supports other popular email services such as Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo! Mail. The mail apps will download a preview of any email received by the user from the mail server configured, and the user will be notified. The mail apps will download the email content once the user opens the mail to read it, or replying the email without using a web browser which consumes more resources and processing speed of the user's device, and it can save some bandwidth of your network too. There are also many other client email programs where some are designed to suit most of the email services and some other such as Gmail apps which are only made for gmail service and outlook for microsoft accounts only, but they generally shares the same functionality.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a n open source, cross-platform email client program. It supports all platforms including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD and Unix. It supports many features such as Junk filtering, image blocking, UTF-8, Phishing filtering, Thread or conversation view, PGP and S/MIME which makes it one of the most popularly used client email programs with half a million downloads on the first 3 days of its release until Mozilla decides to drop Thunderbird from their development priority.
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is developed by microsoft used mainly as an email program. It also comes with features such as calendar, task manager, contact manager, note, journal and web browsing. It can be used to share mailboxes, calendars and meeting schedules with people inside your contact.
What is the differences between POP3 and IMAP? Show how to configure these email client.
To set up POP3 or IMAP in Microsoft Outlook,
- In Microsoft Outlook, from the E-mail Accounts menu, select Tools.
- On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select Add a new e-mail account, and then click Next.
- Select POP3 or IMAP, and then click Next.
- Fill in the required fields with the email account details and click More Settings.
- On the Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.
- Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
- If you did not change the SMTP relay section, select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server". If you changed the user name and password in the SMTP relay section of your Manage Email Accounts page, select "Log on using and enter the user name and password" and fill in the required fields.
- Go to the Advanced tab, and then change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 80 or 3535.
- Click OK and next until the set up finishes.
