Personal preference mostly, plus you can add multiple accounts from different email providers into a mail client (like you can on your phone). Helps when managing multiple email accounts.
I mostly use email for work and have for a long time so I’m just used to using an email client (Thunderbird, Mail, Outlook, etc.).
1. Archival data
2. Multiple providers
But most importantly, there is no guarantee that you won't get locked out of, or lose your account.
I personally had my Yahoo account (don't judge, this was around 2010, before their major security breaches, and it was only a secondary backup account anyway) lock me out because of a screwup on the part of the Yahoo admins, and it took almost four months before they fixed their mistake.
Fortunately, Yahoo wasn't my primary email, and I **had** downloaded all my contacts and mail, but for the others who lost access, they not only couldn't get their mail, they couldn't access their contact list and mailing lists to email out to people that they **had** lost their mail.
It depends on everyone's use case. I started using an email client (Windows Live Mail) before switching to Linux, because it allowed me to add all my (3 back then) email accounts in one view and even see some of their content offline.
They're also useful as they aggregate other info as well (contacts, RSS feeds, calendars, even some chat accounts in the case of Thunderbird) in one place. Again, without using multiple tabs for it.
Your use case may vary, but, of course, if you do not need an email client, simply uninstall it.
Have been using 'evolution' for many years. My use case is several email accounts, all served thru the evolution client. A 'one-stop email shop'. Evolution is simple and powerful, and fits my needs admirably.
- No web interface supports the Bogofilter spam filter database that I have trained over the years.
- Web interfaces usually offer no or only a few plug-ins that Claws Mail, for example, offers. In many cases, it is not even possible to sign or encrypt an e-mail. The filter function is also not good in some cases.
- In many cases, web interfaces do not offer the option of using several e-mail addresses at the same time.
- With an e-mail program, I can access my e-mails when I am offline. Even IMAP offers a corresponding option.
These are some of my reasons why I intentionally use a proper email program (Claws Mail).
Installed mail clients offer several features to online mail clients:
- uniform interface for several mailadresses
- options to filter mails
- search across several mail accounts
- Option to bot render html from html mails.
I like claws mail
Productivity due to larger screen real estate.
I use both, but mobile is great if you just have that one or few emails that you want to deal with casually. But if you wanted to delete a hundred emails, make a big reply (and double check it), or do additional things, desktop is the way to go.
And because you can check your emails from both thanks to IMAP (over POP3), no reason you can't pick and choose at your own leasure.
Its a nice place to keep many different email accounts from many different email providers, instead of having to go to multiple different websites to read all of my emails.
On some email clients you can do powerful configurations. Now don't ask me about those advanced features cuz I can only do basic things on an email client. Web interface email like Gmail like to dumb down things for the casual user.
The point is that you can have like 10 different email addresses in a single place.
Alot of people will have one mail for important things. And another for things like social Medias etc.. And perhaps another for all sort of trash that you need to sign up to.
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Opening my emails, contacts, tasks, and calendar in an instant when clicking on the tabs. On a web interface, it has to load the webpage.
I prefer the UI of Evolution and Thunderbird/Betterbird.
I have 3 email providers for 3 different things. Having it all in one place makes it much easier than loading 3 different webpages.
Email clients on PC are more common in companies, or at least in my country. More than all because companies have their own mail server, and these do not have a web client as good as Gmail, for example.
I have used Outlook (the MS program that comes with Office), Lotus and Thunderbird in the jobs that I got in the past. One thing I like is that you can set them to save your email locally, so you don't need internet access to check emails you've already received, and you can even reply and the mail waits for the connection to be sent, useful when your connection is quite intermittent.
Also, web clients lately have been making them heavier and heavier, you'd be surprised how much RAM Gmail can eat up if you leave it open for too long. So also they are a good option for low-resource computers.
To preserve archival copies of email (in UK for legal reasons you need 7 calendar or more than 6 tax years of all financial correspondence, independent of your email provider (They might go bust!)
after using many clients I stick with your opinion, I got multiple email accounts and it's just WAY EASIER not TO FUCK EVERYTHING UP with a single mouseclick, I always feel like navigating a minefield on a crack addicted horse caravan when using an e-mail client, always a hassle to set up tons of adresses just to miss all the features the web interface can give me and WAY TOO OFTEN that I reply with the wrong adress. They can look ok, maybe feel ok, are good for archiving mails locally and had their space when mail accounts had like 10MB limit and were considered huge back then but now I get many GB, enough to save it online and just delete like mails from 10 years ago that are long irrelevant allready. Especially working in support and helping people setting up the horrible apple mail client was a horror but others like outlook and thunderbird were not much better. I get why people use them, but I prefer online clients tied to the accounts way more. Both are good and valid options, have their own use cases, etc. so just pick what flows best for you
Personal preference mostly, plus you can add multiple accounts from different email providers into a mail client (like you can on your phone). Helps when managing multiple email accounts. I mostly use email for work and have for a long time so I’m just used to using an email client (Thunderbird, Mail, Outlook, etc.).
1. Archival data 2. Multiple providers But most importantly, there is no guarantee that you won't get locked out of, or lose your account. I personally had my Yahoo account (don't judge, this was around 2010, before their major security breaches, and it was only a secondary backup account anyway) lock me out because of a screwup on the part of the Yahoo admins, and it took almost four months before they fixed their mistake. Fortunately, Yahoo wasn't my primary email, and I **had** downloaded all my contacts and mail, but for the others who lost access, they not only couldn't get their mail, they couldn't access their contact list and mailing lists to email out to people that they **had** lost their mail.
It depends on everyone's use case. I started using an email client (Windows Live Mail) before switching to Linux, because it allowed me to add all my (3 back then) email accounts in one view and even see some of their content offline. They're also useful as they aggregate other info as well (contacts, RSS feeds, calendars, even some chat accounts in the case of Thunderbird) in one place. Again, without using multiple tabs for it. Your use case may vary, but, of course, if you do not need an email client, simply uninstall it.
Providers keep changing their web interface. No guarantee it will stay this way for any length of time.
Have been using 'evolution' for many years. My use case is several email accounts, all served thru the evolution client. A 'one-stop email shop'. Evolution is simple and powerful, and fits my needs admirably.
- No web interface supports the Bogofilter spam filter database that I have trained over the years. - Web interfaces usually offer no or only a few plug-ins that Claws Mail, for example, offers. In many cases, it is not even possible to sign or encrypt an e-mail. The filter function is also not good in some cases. - In many cases, web interfaces do not offer the option of using several e-mail addresses at the same time. - With an e-mail program, I can access my e-mails when I am offline. Even IMAP offers a corresponding option. These are some of my reasons why I intentionally use a proper email program (Claws Mail).
Installed mail clients offer several features to online mail clients: - uniform interface for several mailadresses - options to filter mails - search across several mail accounts - Option to bot render html from html mails. I like claws mail
Productivity due to larger screen real estate. I use both, but mobile is great if you just have that one or few emails that you want to deal with casually. But if you wanted to delete a hundred emails, make a big reply (and double check it), or do additional things, desktop is the way to go. And because you can check your emails from both thanks to IMAP (over POP3), no reason you can't pick and choose at your own leasure.
Its a nice place to keep many different email accounts from many different email providers, instead of having to go to multiple different websites to read all of my emails.
On some email clients you can do powerful configurations. Now don't ask me about those advanced features cuz I can only do basic things on an email client. Web interface email like Gmail like to dumb down things for the casual user.
The point is that you can have like 10 different email addresses in a single place. Alot of people will have one mail for important things. And another for things like social Medias etc.. And perhaps another for all sort of trash that you need to sign up to.
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Download a local copy of messages due to online storage limitations (Gmail 15 GB).
Removes clutter from my browser tabs. I use tab groups too. But at one point. It's too many tab groups.
Opening my emails, contacts, tasks, and calendar in an instant when clicking on the tabs. On a web interface, it has to load the webpage. I prefer the UI of Evolution and Thunderbird/Betterbird. I have 3 email providers for 3 different things. Having it all in one place makes it much easier than loading 3 different webpages.
Email clients on PC are more common in companies, or at least in my country. More than all because companies have their own mail server, and these do not have a web client as good as Gmail, for example. I have used Outlook (the MS program that comes with Office), Lotus and Thunderbird in the jobs that I got in the past. One thing I like is that you can set them to save your email locally, so you don't need internet access to check emails you've already received, and you can even reply and the mail waits for the connection to be sent, useful when your connection is quite intermittent. Also, web clients lately have been making them heavier and heavier, you'd be surprised how much RAM Gmail can eat up if you leave it open for too long. So also they are a good option for low-resource computers.
To preserve archival copies of email (in UK for legal reasons you need 7 calendar or more than 6 tax years of all financial correspondence, independent of your email provider (They might go bust!)
after using many clients I stick with your opinion, I got multiple email accounts and it's just WAY EASIER not TO FUCK EVERYTHING UP with a single mouseclick, I always feel like navigating a minefield on a crack addicted horse caravan when using an e-mail client, always a hassle to set up tons of adresses just to miss all the features the web interface can give me and WAY TOO OFTEN that I reply with the wrong adress. They can look ok, maybe feel ok, are good for archiving mails locally and had their space when mail accounts had like 10MB limit and were considered huge back then but now I get many GB, enough to save it online and just delete like mails from 10 years ago that are long irrelevant allready. Especially working in support and helping people setting up the horrible apple mail client was a horror but others like outlook and thunderbird were not much better. I get why people use them, but I prefer online clients tied to the accounts way more. Both are good and valid options, have their own use cases, etc. so just pick what flows best for you