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Webmail is commonly offered as a service by Internet companies, sometimes in exchange for providing personal information for marketing purposes. It may also be offered by one's Internet service provider for remote access to a regular email account. There are many Open source programs that allow one to set up an HTTP mail user agent (see exteral link below).
Most webmail services have the following features:
Several webmail services offer the following features:
These features mean it can in theory be more easily used as a communication tool for nefarious purposes (or for avoiding oppressive authorities) than conventional e-mail. In practice, most governments security agencies are fairly easily able to track individuals who try to use such methods, just as with someone who calls from phone booths. Ordinary citizens will find it more difficult, however.
Historically, the first webmail service was HotmailHotmail is one of the popular free webmail' email services, which are accessible from anywhere on the planet via a standard web browser. It was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995, and was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, Independence Da, created in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja by Sabeer BhatiaSabeer Bhatia is a co-founder of Hotmail. He was born in Chandigarh, India. After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor's d of IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy.. Hotmail became very popular, and was later bought by MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation , headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the world's largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software and rebranded MSNMSN (or Microsoft Network is an internet service provider and web portal (initially meant to be a parallel net to the Internet) created by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, coinciding with the release of Windows 95. The MSN moniker has since been extended to Hotmail. In early 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, Google announced the arrival of Gmail, a free webmail solution set to undergo a period of widespread beta testing before its projected release in the fall of 2004. New features such as a 1 GB storage limit and conversation threading were accepted by many users to the degree that beta accounts were being auctioned off on eBay due to the exceptionally high level of interest. There are now many other webmail services available.
There is webmail software available that allows one to create one's own webmail server, notably open source software such as Horde IMP [1] or Squirrelmail [2]. Many universities take advantage of this software to provide students and faculty with university webmail.