E-MAIL CLIENTS

(Discuss the various Email clients that are available in the market and
illustrate the concept of IMAP /POP. Set up a Microsoft outlook connection
on your laptop first with IMAP and the with POP)

Palki Dhawan, ROE127A22

Hotmail 17%
Yahoo! Mail 13%
Abstract — Email client has a fundamental role in Gmail 5%
modern productivity. Here we describe the Apple Mail 4%
implementation of the email clients with the popular iPhone 4%
email client (opera mail), also we describe here the Thunderbird 2.4%
connection of Microsoft outlook express, and its Windows Live Mail (Desktop) 2%
connection with IMAP and POP. AOL Mail 1.2%
Lotus Notes 0.4%
Index Terms —encrypted, IMAP, POP. Others 8%

I. INTODUCTION TO EMAIL CLIENT

An email client is a computer program used to

manage user’s email. . It is an application which runs
on personal computer and enables us to send receive
and organize mail. Email servers are based on client-
server architecture, that’s why it is called email
clients. Mail is sent from many clients to central
server, which re-routes the mail to its destination.

II. EMAIL CLIENTS THAT ARE

AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET

Email clients that are available in the market are

Microsoft outlook, Mozilla’s thunderbird, and apple
Inc’s mail, opera mail, Eudora, Pegasus mail.

III. TOP TEN EMAIL CLIENTS AND

THEIR MARKET SHARE:-

Email client Market share

Outlook 43%
IV. DESCRIPTION OF HOW EMAIL
Outlook 2003 and earlier 34%
Outlook 2007
CLIENT WORKS
9%
Here I put up an example how email client works by
configuring opera mail over a pc.
1.Firstly it shows the simple window of a email client
opera mail.

On the left hand side we can see it’s having features V. THE CONCEPT OF IMAP /POP:-
like file sharing, media player, messenger, photo
sharing, web server, fridge etc. And there is a trash POP stands for Post Office Protocol.
folder.
A POP account downloads mail to the computer by
default. Often, when a message is downloaded, it is
deleted from the ISP's mail server. This prevents you
from reading the same messages when you go to a
different computer.

The advantage of the POP is that we have our

messages with us and we can peruse them even while
we are not connected to the Internet, which is
particularly desirable if we use telephone dial-up
access to the Internet.

The disadvantage of using POP is that it is difficult to

keep multiple computers synchronized. Messages we
2. Email clients will also help in activities like shown send from one computer are not copied on the other
in fig, and even we can configure our mails and other computers. If we use a laptop computer while
stuff like file sharing and photo sharing etc. And here traveling, we may want to consider IMAP access.
I have configure my own mail there and the fig below
is showing this: IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol.

When you use an IMAP account we are, in fact,

viewing our e-mail that is stored on the ISP's
computer. There are no copies of the messages stored
on our local computer unless we make a special effort
to copy them there. Some Internet providers do not
support IMAP because with IMAP your messages are
kept on the ISP's computer indefinitely. With IMAP,
our mail remains on the server. Therefore, wherever
we are and whatever our computer use, we always
are looking at the same set of messages. Mail we read
at work will show up marked as read when we view it
from home. Replies we send while on the road will
be there when we get home. The disadvantage, of
course, is that we must have Internet access in order
to view our mail at all, since it is never copied to our
local computer.

VI. HOW TO SETUP A CONNECTION

WITH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
EXPRESS
(D) Here the account is created. And as described
Before we setup a connection with Microsoft outlook above here this account is showing all the mails of
express to send and receive email, firstly we have to the account with that I have setup a connection. For
setup an account. We may have more than one ex- here I took [email protected] and the
account – for business, online shopping and so on. screenshot below is showing all the mails of that
And each other person who uses the same computer particular account.
may have separate account.

*To start outlook express follow the following steps:

(A) Open the outlook express from the start menu.

(B) It will ask whether you like to open this particular

account every time you start outlook express. (click
yes as if you want outlook to open your account
every time as you start outlook and no if you don’t
want to open it every time as may be for the security
reasons ).

(C) Setup an account in the Microsoft outlook

express. Check when outlook express starts, go
directly to inbox. (outlook express directs all
incoming mails to the inbox)
VII. MICROSOFT OUTLOOK (D)And then fill the required fields in them and
CONNECTION WITH IMAP:- chose the settings as you want to do, for example
here I took IMAP.
(A)Click over tool menu and then account
(E)Click on more settings over general tab. And
settings.
then enter name which we want to give the
account as I gave here palki dhawan.

(B)Now click over new and then choose

Microsoft exchange, POP3, IMAP, HTTP and
then click next. Enter email address and
(F)Now click more settings on the outgoing
password and then click manually configure and
server, and choose My outgoing server(SMTP)
then click next.
requires authentication.

(C)Click internet email and then next.

(G)For IMAP accounts click more settings over

advanced tab i.e shown below and fill the
information required like Incoming server IMAP
and Outgoing server(SMTP).
 VIII. MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
CONNECTION WITH POP:-

The same thing we can do with the POP, while

establishing a connection of POP with Microsoft
outlook express.

(A)Repeat steps 1, 2 and 3 as we have done for

the settings, while we were establishing a
connection of Microsoft outlook with IMAP.

(B) Now choose POP in the place where we

earlier choose IMAP for the settings as shown
below:

(H)Now as if we are using settings of IMAP,

then click test account settings to verify that
account is working or not. Before this make sure
that the information you have entered is correct
like password and email id and also make sure
that you are connected to the internet.

Here in the screen shot given below there is

an arrow over test account settings, click
over there.

(I)Now click next and finish, and then it will

show you the following dialog box.
(C)For POP3 accounts, click more settings on
the advanced tab, under server port numbers,
under incoming server (POP3), select the The
server requires an encrypted connection
(SSL) check box.

(D)And then repeat the same steps as we have

done for the IMAP.
IX. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Opportunity to express my sincere thanks to all those

people, how helped me in completing this project
successfully; this work of creation wouldn’t have
been possible without their kind help, cooperation
and extended support.

First and foremost sincere thanks to my project guide

Mr. ANKUR SODHI valuable guidance for
completion of this work and also for providing the
necessary facilities and support.

Also I sincerely thanks to all the faculties and

coordinator, whose valuable suggestions, support and
motivation provided me, required strength for
accomplishment of this term paper.

X. REFFERENCES

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-
us/outlook-help/add-or-remove-an-
e-mail-account-
HA001231634.aspx#BM5

• http://www.microsoft.com/windows/
ie/ie6/using/howto/oe/setup.mspx

• http://www.emailclients.net

• http://fingerprintapp.com/email-client-stats