I use Google's free e-mail service called GMAIL. GMAIL supports POP (Post Office Protocol). POP allows you to use one of many e-mail clients on your PC. Among the supported client e-mail programs for which GMAIL supports POP are:
If you use one of these e-mail client programs, then you can use POP with GMAIL. The real beauty of these client programs is that they all have very friendly, easy to use, user interfaces. Each of them will keep all of your e-mail right on your own PC. As an added bonus with GMAIL, all of your e-mail will also be kept on Google's servers (Google claims without limit) and this is a big advantage for GMAIL, so you have built-in backup. That is, a full copy of all of your e-mail is on your PC and also on Google's servers.
The purpose of POP is simply to ensure that as e-mail comes into the Google server, a copy of it is downloaded to your PC when you start up your client program. I happen to use Outlook, and that is where I process all of my e-mail. When one has what is called a client-server relationship like this, one can process e-mail within the client when on one's own PC or use webmail, and process e-mail by using the Google web site to read and send e-mail. This is handy, of course, when one is using someone else's PC.
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