What the heck is Web-Based Email?
Simply put, Web-based email is electronic mail that can be accessed using a Web browser. It is stored in much the same manner as standard POP (file based) email, but when delivered it is presented as HTML — WWW Web pages. You can do most of the same things with it as you can POP email, but it offers limited customization and is very slow. Large file delivery is cumbersome and often fails because of the limitations of HTML transfer issues. The one advantage of Web-based email is in its’ accessibility. You can create a free web-based account with your own username and password, then retrieve your mail from virtually any computer in the world that is capable of accessing the Internet. While it is true that you can check regular email from other locations also, you are first required to set the remote computers’ email software to access the Crawfish Net server. And even if you do that, you will still be unable to SEND email through your CFWeb account unless you’re actually logged into Cra
