What is an email client? what is difference between email client and web mail?

Email Client

Email clients download your emails onto your computer. Using a specialized email program such as Outlook Express or Apple Mail has the advantage of giving you complete control over your email; every email you receive is placed on your computer and you can keep as many large file attachments as you want.

Webmail

If you host with Needmore Designs, you have a limited amount of space available for your web mailbox. For daily use, you will want to use an email client. Nevertheless, you might find that you want to check your email while traveling.

Checking your email through our webmail is similar to using Hotmail or YAHOO! Mail. You never actually copy your messages to your computer; in fact, you are looking at them through your web browser on somebody else's computer. When you are not online, you are not able to see your email.

An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent (MUA), is a computer program used to manage a users email..
1.email client is a client who change to any document in web page which he registered
2.web client is a client who doest be change anything only they were read the data