An Email Account

Email is a very important part of internet business as you use it to communicate with your customers, suppliers, investors, and media and so on. In fact, it is likely that you will spend more time on email programs than any other are of the Internet. You will therefore need an email account that is reliable (sending and receiving messages on time) and convenient use.

While many ISPs provide effective email services, the email programs that come with online services (companies such as AOL and CompuServe) are generally not very powerful, as they aimed at consumers, not businesses. It will probably be worth your while looking at independent email programs, as they offer some of the most comprehensive services. Here are some of them:

Thunder Bird – This email program is freely distributed from google and moszila corporations. This is a great email program with lots of important options and other features.

Eudora – This is another well known independent email program on the market. As well as making sure your email messages are sent and received on time, Eudora also offers mail filters, enabling you to setup different mail boxes for different mail addresses, a spellchecker and automatic response tools. There is a free, stripped-down version of the program called Eudora Light that can be downloaded from the Eudora site.

Outlook Express – This is the Microsoft’s email program and is, unsurprisingly, one of the most successful out there. The main advantage of this program is that it fits very well with other Microsoft software such as Word, Office and Internet Explorer.

Powermail – Powermail is one of the few email programs aimed solely at Mac users. It provides a comprehensive and powerful service.