3. E-mail Client – software that connects to the e-mail server and delivers e-mail messages to and from the client.

The most popular e-mail clients are:

• MS Outlook Express – provided with Internet Explorer;

• MS Outlook – provided with MS Office Suite;

• Netscape Messenger – provided with Netscape Communicator/Navigator.

Configuration features:

• Users and groups;

• Configuring the e-mail server connection;

• Contacts – most often used e-mail addresses and their respective owners’ names, mail addresses, phones, etc.;

• Organizing storage folders and mail filtering rules –  messages can be automatically distributed to different folders based on different criteria, such as  sender, receiver, subject, or message contents.

• Set-up signature files to identify the sender;

• Archiving the contents of all or some folders.