I noticed lately that there’s not much ‘webby’ about ‘webmail’. Webmail is just an interface for reading a POP- or IMAP-server. In fact, it’s just an idiotic construction from server to server to client.
Currently, e-mail uses POP3, IMAP and SMTP to communicate between client and server. This are, in my opinion, dated specifications (1982, 1985 [...]