Webmail is a really practical alternative to desktop and smart phone email applications if you don't have access to your personal machine and you don't have a smart phone. You'll be able to access your e-mails through any browser, so you can stay in touch with people when you travel and you go to an Internet cafe, for instance. Webmail applications are rather advanced, so you will not only have the ability to send and receive e-mails, but you'll also be able to make use of an address book, make a custom signature or perhaps set up new folders, that will later on appear in your PC e-mail application. It is important to know that the email messages shown in the webmail are those on the server, so if you set up an e-mail in a desktop program using the POP protocol, the messages will be saved on your PC and they will not be accessible in the webmail. The solution in this case is to use the IMAP protocol any time you create your emails in a PC client.