An e-mail client is a program that can be installed on a computer, smartphone, tablet and other end devices. With an e-mail client you can access or synchronize your e-mails from your e-mail provider. Well-known e-mail clients are Outlook and Live Mail from Microsoft and Thunderbird from Mozilla.
With an e-mail client you can call up, read, edit, answer and send e-mails. The advantage of an e-mail client is that you have your e-mails available locally, so you can access them even when there is no internet access. Provided that you have received the respective e-mail beforehand. You also have more options when it comes to designing an e-mail, including the font size, typeface, etc. concerns. In addition, the filter settings, e.g. for spam, are more extensive than with some web mailers.
For an e-mail client you need the access data from your e-mail provider. You also need the server addresses for the incoming mail server and the outgoing mail server, which you can usually find in the help / FAQ of your e-mail provider. We have also listed the server addresses of some providers here. The question then arises as to whether you want to use POP3 or IMAP. We recommend using IMAP there, as the e-mails are always synchronized with the server of the respective e-mail provider. This has the advantage if, for example, an end device is defective that you can still access your e-mails with another end device, if you also use an e-mail client there or then use a browser to access the web mailer of your e-mail Mail provider accesses.