Editing Webmail (section)

=== Widespread deployment ===
As the 1990s progressed, and into the 2000s, it became more common for the general public to have access to webmail because:

* many [[Internet service provider]]s (such as [[EarthLink]]) and [[web hosting service|web hosting providers]] (such as [[Verio]]) began bundling webmail into their service offerings (often in parallel with [[Post Office Protocol|POP]]/[[Simple Mail Transfer Protocol|SMTP]] services);
* many other enterprises (such as universities and large corporations) also started offering webmail as a way for their user communities to access their email (either locally managed or outsourced);
* [[comparison of webmail providers|webmail service providers]] (such as [[Outlook.com|Hotmail]] and [[RocketMail]]) emerged in 1996 as a free service to the general public, and rapidly gained in popularity.

In some cases, webmail application software is developed in-house by the organizations running and managing the application, and in some cases it is obtained from software companies that develop and sell such applications, usually as part of an integrated mail server package (an early example being [[Oracle Communications Messaging Server|Netscape Messaging Server]]<ref>Oracle, [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19079-01/nscp.mes.svr415/816-6055-10/relnotes.html Cnet Archive - Release Notes: Netscape Messaging Server 4.15]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://reviews.cnet.com/e-mail/netscape-messaging-server-corporate/1707-3536_7-30581859.html|title=Netscape Messaging Server Corporate Edition ( v. 4.15 ) - media and documentation set Overview}}</ref>). The market for webmail application software has [[comparison of mail servers|continued into the 2010s]].