Many people have switched to the popular web based email solutions like Yahoo and GMail, they are FREE and provide many features not found in most desktop email clients. However, they don’t work well from inside Windows. I’ve found a solution with extra features including the ability to share files larger than you can attach in an email.
If you click an email link on a web page, or chose “Send Email” from word or many other desktop applications Windows will most likely start outlook, thunderbird or whatever you have installed as your desktop email client.
Affixa (http://www.affixa.com) is a free desktop program that nicely solves this problem, it allows you to use you web mail service from within Windows just as if it were a desktop email client. It supports drag-n-drop allowing you to collect documents, integrates with a number of file sharing hosts (allowing you to send large files), and a bunch of other featrues.
Free for personal use, a commercial licence is only ~$4/year.
