One of the greatest money-sinks for a small business can be software.  Today you can buy a new computer for much less than you could ten years ago, but often the software becomes the unexpected extra cost. After getting an office suite, photo editor, and anti-virus you may find that these three programs alone cost just as much as your computer!

With the dominance of webmail for the past ten years, email client software has almost been forgotten. It seems these days very few people know the difference between email and the web, as they learned how to use the Internet long after the email client fell from popularity.

So, what is an email client?