Which email client should I choose?

It’s becoming increasingly common for many of us to have multiple email addresses. Whether it’s for professional or personal use, we end up managing a lot of inboxes and it can be inconvenient to have to repeatedly sign in and out of accounts.

With email clients, users can access several email accounts with a single program and navigate from one inbox to another. Which means you can receive, write or read emails on each of your e-mail addresses simultaneously.

But what is the difference between an email client and a Google account with several email aliases?

It all comes down to the message access protocol. An email client downloads emails to your device, which means you can access your emails even when working offline.

With webmail services, you can read emails stored on remote servers but your emails are not copied to your device.

Email client examples

Most email clients have a freemium business model. In other words, they offer a program with limited features for free but the most useful features are often included in the paid version only (multiple email account management, for example).

But not all email clients operate on that model, as the following list demonstrates!

Mozilla Thunderbird

Thunderbird is one of the most well-known email clients. It was developed in 2003 as a part of the Mozilla project and has been improving ever since. It’s also quite user-friendly: you don’t need to provide all the technical details to set up your email account, logins are enough for Mozilla Thunderbird to query email provider servers and get that information.

Additional features can be configured: easy-to-use address books, attachment reminders based on a keyword analysis, multi-tab browsing, etc.