Editing Email (section)

==Types==

===Web-based email===
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Many email providers have a web-based email client. This allows users to log into the email account by using any compatible [[web browser]] to send and receive their email. Mail is typically not downloaded to the web client, so it cannot be read without a current Internet connection.

===POP3 email servers===
The [[Post Office Protocol]] 3 (POP3) is a mail access protocol used by a client application to read messages from the mail server. Received messages are often deleted from the [[server (computing)|server]]. POP supports simple download-and-delete requirements for access to remote mailboxes (termed maildrop in the POP RFC's).<ref>{{cite book | last = Allen | first = David | title = Windows to Linux | publisher = Prentice Hall | year = 2004 | page = 192 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UD0h_GqgbHgC&q=network%2B+guide+to+networks | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161226051835/https://books.google.com/books?id=UD0h_GqgbHgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=network%2B+guide+to+networks&ct=result&resnum=1 | archive-date = 2016-12-26 | isbn = 978-1423902454 }}</ref> POP3 allows downloading messages on a local computer and reading them even when offline.<ref>{{cite IETF
 |         rfc = 1733
 |       title = DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4
 |     section = 4.5.  
 | sectionname = Implementation and Operation
  }}
</ref><ref>{{cite IETF
 |         rfc = 5598
 |       title = Internet Mail Architecture
 |     section = 4.2.2. 
 | sectionname = Message Store (MS)
  }}
</ref>

===IMAP email servers===
The [[Internet Message Access Protocol]] (IMAP) provides features to manage a mailbox from multiple devices. Small portable devices like [[smartphone]]s are increasingly used to check email while traveling and to make brief replies, larger devices with better keyboard access being used to reply at greater length. IMAP shows the headers of messages, the sender and the subject and the device needs to request to download specific messages. Usually, the mail is left in folders in the mail server.

===MAPI email servers===
[[MAPI|Messaging Application Programming Interface]] (MAPI) is used by [[Microsoft Outlook]] to communicate to [[Microsoft Exchange Server]]—and to a range of other email server products such as [[Axigen|Axigen Mail Server]], [[Kerio Connect]], [[Scalix]], [[Zimbra]], [[HP OpenMail]], [[IBM Lotus Notes]], [[Zarafa (software)|Zarafa]], and [[Bynari]] where vendors have added MAPI support to allow their products to be accessed directly via Outlook.