> When people say email, they almost always mean their email client and not the protocol. Yes, but which client? I use mutt, my office manager at work uses Out

> When people say email, they almost always mean their email client and not the protocol. Yes, but which client? I use mutt, my office manager at work uses Outlook, our accountant uses Gmail, and our advertising manager uses Yahoo. The fact that we can all email each other seamlessly is inherently because of the common protocol, even though we don't think of it consciously when talking about email.