An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent (MUA), is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal. In addition, a web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.
Popular locally installed email clients include Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus Notes, Pegasus Mail, Mozilla's Thunderbird, KMail in the Kontact suite, Evolution and Apple Inc.'s Mail.
Popular web-based email clients include: Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, mail.com, Lycos mail, and Hotmail.
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“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)