It seems as if more and more Internet services are moving to become web-based only. A decade or two ago, most people still used email clients like Outlook Express to access their email messages. Lately, nearly everyone uses the web, and they consider email clients to be a thing of the past. Now that Internet connections are becoming more ubiquitous, there may not appear to be any need for email clients. However, there are still many benefits to using an email client. Let's take a look at a few of the top advantages so that you can decide whether or not using an email client is right for you.

1.) If you have multiple email accounts an email client can quickly download and organize all your email in to one convenient place.

2.) Using an email client downloads your important emails on to your computer, where you have total control over the security. It will also be much quicker to access each email, since it generally takes less time to open a file on your computer than it takes to download a file from the Internet.

3.) One of the greatest advantages of using email clients is that they allow you to work with your emails even when you are offline. If you have a laptop, then you know that there are many times when you would like to connect to the Internet, but there is no WiFi connection nearby. You would like to be able to respond to a particular email that your friend wrote to you, but you can't access it because you are not online. With an email client, you will be able to access your friend's email because it has been stored on your computer's hard drive. You can write the response and tell your email client that you would like to send the reply to your friend. The email will be instantly sent out the next time your computer connects to the Internet.

There's no right or wrong way to use email, but it's important to know what your email system can and cannot do. If you store a lot of valuable information in your email it would be recommended that you have that email saved on to your PC where you can even back it up to an external HDD, if you like to check your email from different computers throughout the day webmail might be best for you. If you want a combination of both, you can set your email client to leave a copy of the email on the server for a set amount of time.