With growing technology and advancement and people having more than one mail ids the use of desktop mail clients are increasing.
Desktop mail clients are very helpful if you have more than one mail id to check regularly. These clients load and check for new emails on all added mail ids and notify you on time and get all your emails in one place. The biggest advantage of such clients is that you don’t have to log in and out of multiple mail ids online to view mails. You can get all your mails from different email service ids ( yahoo, gmail, rediff, hotmail, etc) all at a single place on a single click. These clients also store emails which can be viewed easily even if you are not connected to net.
The most popular desktop mail clients include Outlook express, thunderbird and windows live mail among others. Windows live mail by Microsoft is by far the most popular, comfortable and compact mail client available today.
Outlook for me is outdated and crammy thunderbird is mediocrebut add ons and customization is a plus , while windows live mail is the best available. Zimbra is another desktop mail client which is fun while it integrates calendar , contact and offline access. There are other options too like postbox, opera mail etc