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General webmail service features
General webmail service features:
- Multiple Folders
- Trash folder
- Address book / Contact list
- Filtering the incoming email to dispatch to related folder
- Spam detection and blocking measures (reject/bounce email to sender with
note)
- Ability to send back the emails with suspecious attachments to the sender.
- POP3 mail retrieval
- Antivirus for mail attachements
- Dictionary and thesaurus for composed messages
- Online Spell checker (gmail has best)
Advantages of webmail services
- Email can be read and composed anywhere a person has access to a web
browser.
- Messages do not have to be downloaded.
- Many services allow anonymous sign-ups.
Disadvantages of webmail services
- The user must stay online to read and write email.
- Commercial webmail services often offer only limited email storage space
and deliver advertisements.
- Heavy use of webmail over a slow network connection can be tedious.
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