What is the best web based email client?

Gmail. You can get any email account to forward there.

That, and it’s got a great web interface.

I really love Gmail. I’ve been using it for years now and it’s been grand.

I, too, am a diehard Gmail fan. I get all my email consolidated in one inbox. You can send mail from your various accounts from the same inbox as well.

While I do like Gmail, it can’t pull my other accounts via IMAP, so it wouldn’t really be an option for me unless I completely moved all of my mail to it.

I do believe you can just set those accounts up to forward to that account… I don’t think you need to go through IMAP.

I’m with the group here. Gmail hands down.

Well, I’m glad Gmail works just fine for everyone, but I want something other than Gmail. Basically I want a web based email client that isn’t a service at all. I want to be able to enter the nesacerry account information and have it pull my email accounts via IMAP, that way I can keep using Mail.app when I’m on my MacBook.

Since you use a Mac, would Mobile Me provide any sort of solution for you? I obviously have not used it myself, but I was under the assumption that it provides a service similar to what you are looking for. Of course, it’s not free.

I don’t think you’ll find a better free webmail client than Gmail though. Its existence has simply killed off a lot of smaller services which may have offered the IMAP feature you desire. Or, those that do offer it know how much it’s worth and do not offer it for free. Good luck though.