Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A service providing the ability to read and send e-mail at a website.
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- noun A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing
email , usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through aweb browser . - noun The email thus stored.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Drafting a long important e-mail in webmail and then hitting “send” only to find your session has timed out and the e-mail is * gone*.
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Though this is miles and miles better than the privacy that plain webmail delivers, there are a couple of ways in which this is less than perfect -- the system doesn't protect the To: and From: and Subject: information in your email; an adversary might be able to harm you just by knowing the fact that you've gotten encrypted mail from a specific person.
Boing Boing: August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 Archives 2006
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Update - webmail is busted, I'll deal with that in the morning.
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Update - webmail is busted, I'll deal with that in the morning.
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I was actually thinking at one point about moving some mail services to the google hosted system, and while their webmail is the bees knees, losing that control is just too much, especially after reading this!
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I was actually thinking at one point about moving some mail services to the google hosted system, and while their webmail is the bees knees, losing that control is just too much, especially after reading this!
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There are plenty of ways to read and compose emails, but most fall into two categories: software that runs on your computer, such as webmail services that are used through a web browser, such as Google Mail.
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Targeted at organizations with web applications handling sensitive data -- such as webmail,
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Targeted at organizations with web applications handling sensitive data -- such as webmail,
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E-mail hosting services thus differ from typical end-user e-mail providers such as webmail sites.
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