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back March 12, 2011 - Fábio R. Campanhol
Outlook VS Webmail: the difference between them and the Best for you.
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To keep your website online you need to pay for web hosting. Nowadays there are many different types of hosting providers with a variety of plans and prices. We always refer to the best hosting providers because to have a good visualization of the website and the sent/received e-mails you need to consider the following items:
The company: you need to hire a trustworthy company for your web hosting that offers high capacity plans, traffic and an excellent support.
Plans: there are many different types of hosting plans. Choose the ones that offer high capacity of storage so this can be used on the website and to store your e-mails.
Payment: pay attention to the payment way to avoid your website hosting of being inactive, so your site can be available along with your e-mails.
What does it have to do with your received e-mails?
Firstly, you need to understand the importance of the web hosting because your site and e-mails will be stored there as a server. Even if your web hosting is inactive your site and e-mails will continue there.
Creating e-mails
To create mail boxes you need to contact the agency and ask for creation of new accounts. These new accounts will be available for 24 hours depending on the server and the files published by the web hosting.
Visualizing and downloading my e-mails
You can check your e-mails from anywhere in the world through a link with your e-mail and password or if you prefer you may download it from a machine according to your needs. Follow below the advantages and differences between outlook and Webmail:
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Webmail |
Outlook |
You can access your e-mail account through any browser on any computer in the world. |
You can only check your messages from an e-mail program resident on your own computer. |
Leaves a copy of the messages on the server. |
Stores messages on your own computer. |
Limited attachment file size |
Allows you to send large e-mails attachments. |
To check your e-mails you need to be online. |
To Access your checked e-mails you do not need to be online because your messages are stored in your computer. |
If you need to format your computer it is not necessary to backup your messages because they are stored on your server. |
If you need to backup your computer you will need to make a backup of your e-mails messages. |
Depending on the host Server there is a limit of e-mails. If you go over the limit on the e-mails the messages will be returned. |
There is no limit for sending e-mails because once you have read them you take them out of the server and store in your computer. |
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To summarize, the Outlook program is more specific for managing e-mail messages to folders. It is faster to send large attached files; it is possible to put nice paper, signatures, rules for your messages, spam filter and etc.
PS.: In this article, we talked about Microsoft Outlook. These tips are also worth for other e-mail managing program. The same Outlook has different versions like the Outlook Express, which is an easier version with less resource, and the Outlook 2007, which is already a more complete version with new researches like calendars and scheduling, and others.
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