I dont recall ever getting work fixing gmail. We used to make a lot of money off people with thunderbird and outlook issues when I was running a repairs business. If you dont have properly managed backups, the downtime could be significant and disruptive to get the application / os back to a functional state.Īnyone who has spent significant time working on locally installed apps will know they can fail without warning, and can take time to troubleshoot. If you have a proper backup system in place this time is minimal but could pose inconvenience in certain circumstances. For example if using a local softwre install and your machine shits itself you are subject to downtime to get the thing up and running again. OP the general advantage of using a web based client is reliability against your local machine crashing or dying. Its perfectly fair for OP to select a locally installed client or a web based one but it would be stupid for them not to consider all the options, and particularly to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. It could also be considered a thin client, and offers the specific advantages of that particularly in terms of its resistance to single-machine failure or fault. The fact of it cloud based does not disqualify from that. Gmail _is_ an email client when used to access other email accounts. Dont know why people are getting downvoted here for suggesting gmail.

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