Editing Email client (section)

==Webmail==
{{Main|Webmail}}
In addition to email clients running on a desktop computer, there are those hosted remotely, either as part of a remote UNIX installation accessible by [[telnet]] (i.e. a [[shell account]]), or hosted on the [[World Wide Web|Web]].  Both of these approaches have several advantages: they share an ability to send and receive email away from the user's normal base using a [[web browser]] or telnet client, thus eliminating the need to install a dedicated email client on the user's device.

Some websites are dedicated to providing email services, and many [[Internet service provider]]s provide webmail services as part of their Internet service package. The main limitations of webmail are that user interactions are subject to the website's operating system and the general inability to download email messages and compose or work on the messages offline, although there are software packages that can integrate parts of the webmail functionality into the OS (e.g. creating messages directly from third party applications via [[MAPI]]).

Like IMAP and MAPI, webmail provides for email messages to remain on the mail server.  See [[#Remote messages|next section]].