What do you expect from e-mail system?
Apart from the regular e-mail handling, the e-mail system should provide some additional tools to help the user manage his daily work better. Apart from accessing his e-mails, the additional tools one may expect are:
- Management of calendars
- Management of contacts
- Management of content sharing
- Instant messaging
- Collaboration tools, etc.
The other facilities which the user may find very useful are:
- Facility for better management of ever-growing inboxes effectively
- Facility for full-text search on e-mails
- Facility for e-mail filtering and sorting
- Built-in protection for Anti-spam and Antivirus
- Scalability for better performance
- Tools for better mail-administration, etc.
Some of the popular e-mail applications are IBM's Lotus Notes, Netscape Mail, Microsoft's Exchange, etc.