Easy-Email

The problem with webmail

If you use webmail the main problem you encounter is if you have a poor internet connection or no connection at all. See the video http://www.youtube.com/user/easyemailvideos

No connection means no access – you cannot read stored emails, start replies to emails already in your inbox, you cannot look up contacts or access information stored in your emails.

And if your connection is poor you may lose emails you have started to write, attaching documents or pictures is time consuming and it is generally a pain in the neck!

With Easy-Email this problem is solved!

The problem with email clients

If you use an email client such as Outlook, Live Mail, Apple Mail or Thunderbird, you have the benefit of being able to work offline. You can do all the things webmail users cannot do if they do not have an internet connection.

The problem is that you cannot easily access your email from any computer other than your main computer.

Some people work around this problem by using POP to view unread mail from computers other than their main computer.

John Doe is our example throughout these guides. He uses Windows Mail on his main computer. He also has a netbook on which he uses Outlook Express. When he is away from home without his netbook he accesses his email from a Gmail account.

John downloads his emails to his main computer. His emails are stored here so once downloaded from the mailbox they are not accessible from other computers.

He can access any new emails from both the netbook and Gmail until they are downloaded to his main computer.

This all sounds great... but it does not work all that well.

Firstly he can only see and respond to new emails. Any emails he sends from his netbook do not appear on his main computer so he has to remember to copy himself on his own emails!

Once John returns to his main computer and downloads his emails, he can't see which emails he has read already – all the emails he downloads are marked unread. And the emails he sent and copied himself on, appear in his inbox and not the Sent Mail folder!

With Easy-Email, anything he does on one computer is reflected on any other computer!

The problem with multiple email addresses

If you use several email addresses for different purposes you probably spend a lot of your time logging in and logging out of different webmail clients and email clients.

It's a pain having your eLife all over the place. There's a risk of missing important emails if you do not remember to check all of your accounts. Certain email addresses are set up to download to your computer, others are on webmail, others might download to a club computer or a specific work computer.

You spend time emailing yourself from one email address to the other, copying yourself on emails and generally wasting a lot of time.

Easy-Email solves all of these issues!