2007-02-28 03:48:27 · 8 answers · asked by Maurice H 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Web based e-mails are simple, easy was of acquiring an e-mail adress without downloadin e-mail programs ie. Mozilla, outlook, etc.
A web based e-mail is an e-mail adress used on the internet. In other words, you have to be on the internet in order to log into your e-mail. Take yahoo for example, when you sign up for an account, you check your e-mail by signing in on the internet. Once your there, your inbox, outbox, drafts, and trash, are all on an internet page instead of a computer program, thus making it a web based e-mail.
2007-02-28 03:55:16 · answer #1 · answered by Houki Lou 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is where you use a web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera to read your emails while they are still on the mail server. This gives you the opportunity to read your emails from anywhere that has internet access.
Yahoo and Google mail have web based interfaces, as does Hotmail.
It differs from POP3 email, in that in POP3 systems, you would download the email to your computer, and usually delete it from the server at the same time. POP3 email requires a client such as Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Pegasus, Sea Monkey etc.
2007-02-28 16:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by David P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Web-based email is just a web-based front end to email processing. The difference is that you're using a web "client" to process the email messages, addresses, and other mail related items rather than having a program loaded on your computer to do all of that.
For example, if you use MS Outlook, you could use either the client software that you've installed on the PC (and as such can use it while offline) or you could connect to your ISP and use their web-based version of Outlook.
2007-02-28 11:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ditto BigRez (above) and the advantage being that, you don't have to occupy your own computer's disk space holding the email files, because the host (like, say, good ol' generous Yahoo! or Google or MSN) will hold your email files for free! Plus, where ever you are in the world, you can logon to your web-based email userid and check your mail.
2007-02-28 11:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accessing your email via Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari via a web site.
2007-02-28 11:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by blndchik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Briefly it is not downloaded to your computer.
If you require a more in depth answer for your homework suggest you read your book again.
2007-02-28 11:52:52 · answer #6 · answered by Jewel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋