An email provider is a company dedicated to offering the management of your emails on the network , both sent and received. That is, working with webmail .
This operates on the Internet , not with the Intranet , so the management of your correspondence is given by entering the website with the domain that the company has created for it and being connected to a network.
The activity is carried out through a search engine , without the need for independent software installed on your computer.
Some of them also allow you to configure your account to be able to access it through what are known as email clients, which are simple management programs (and which we will see in the next section).
The main types of providers that we find are:
- SMTP relay. It is a tertiary provider that works when the recipients of the emails you send are not among your contacts.
- From dedicated email services. They are the ones that have their own infrastructure to offer the service.
- Cloud-based. You can request a cloud messaging service, generally used for communication within large companies.
- As an integrated marketing platform. A solution offered in conjunction with others to carry out a marketing strategy.
The most used today are the following:
Google gmail
It is the most popular in our country and has a billion users on the planet . Today it is the usual provider, the one that everyone uses, both privately and corporate email use for companies , in part because it belongs to Google.
The most prominent element is the cleanliness of its interface . You have many options to sort your emails, highlighting the good antispam filters you have and spicing up your offer with a simple toolbar.
Microsoft Outlook (Hotmail)
It has remained in first position, without rival, for many years. Even so, it is still used regularly due to its very good reputation and also due to the fact that many of its lifelong users are still active.
It has a smart inbox that detects messages of interest based on the sender and flow of emails sent and highlights them. It has integrated a calendar in which events of interest to the user and other applications are highlighted. You can share files with OneDrive.
ProtonMail
This is very significant because its objective is privacy , being essential for those who want to keep their data safe.
The registration is anonymous and your IP is not registered. Emails are one hundred percent encrypted. It has a free basic version that allows you to send 150 emails per day and have 500 MB of space .
Yahoo Mail
Although it lost steam years ago, its updates have made it a widely used webmail service again.
Among its benefits we highlight its integration with Facebook, the creation of disposable emails, a huge storage and an interface similar to that of Gmail .
