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renluop

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Explaining "email client"
« on: December 20, 2015, 03:14:00 PM »

Unthinkingly I mentioned to the beloved, that I had changed email client. Now she wants an explanation. ::) :o

So, how do I do a simple one?
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Re: Explaining "email client"
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2015, 04:37:02 PM »

The simplest explanation would be to say that there are e-mail servers and e-mail clients. The servers are big systems, "out in the Internet" and every user who has an e-mail account actually makes contact with the appropriate e-mail server via a local e-mail client.
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Re: Explaining "email client"
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2015, 05:20:52 PM »

It is "my email program".
Simples.
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Re: Explaining "email client"
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2015, 05:27:39 PM »

Email 'app' ?
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Re: Explaining "email client"
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2015, 08:05:43 PM »

Unthinkingly I mentioned to the beloved, that I had changed email client. Now she wants an explanation. ::) :o

So, how do I do a simple one?

When explaining things go non-techies, which I assume to be the case here, I sometimes try to find analogies in the non tech world.   

I'd probably be thinking along lines of 'using different different paper', or maybe different stamps and/or getting the Post Office to deliver using different vans, or maybe getting it popped through the letterbox by a different Postie.   At the same time emphasising that the sorting office (the server) and the remote sender/recipient would be unaware that your pen, paper, or colour of the delivery van, was any different.

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Re: Explaining "email client"
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2015, 08:35:38 PM »

@licquorice - some people I know think an app is an icon, or they think it can only be something on an iPhone. My missus knows better, because she's been listening to me for 35 years, bless her and love her to bits.
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