@Stephen5000 wrote:
@licquoricewrote:
As I keep repeating, web browsers (as the name suggests) are for browsing the web. Mail clients (as the name suggests) are for handling email. Hotmail has a lot to answer for, until they came along there was no webmail.
I won't convince you and you won't convince me otherwise.
You won't see any corporate webmail systems, they know the most efficient way to deal with email.
Not entirely true. Yes, 'corporate' email is often on a dedicated email client - in the office. But I have worked for a few companies that offered the option of using specific 'WebMail' versions for when office access was not available...
Generally speaking any time a company's network gets opened up to the outside world, it also potentially gets opened up to new security risks. While corporate webmail can be a convenient service to offer employees, it has drawbacks. Even if it doesn't compromise your company's network, it still can lead to the employees to leaving sensitive information on other computers.
Webmail makes it easy for workers to access email but it also makes it easy for criminals to access the company email system. Once they hack into it, they can read the company's emails or send email using the company's accounts.
There are many more security issues with a company allowing employees to use webmail so most, perhaps not all don't allow it.
