CraigB
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Yes you can still access your emails the normal way with a client, having the client means that you open say thunderbird and it retrieves your mail from your providers for you without having to go to the web address manually, i prefer to still go to the web for my mail myself as i find its still easy and maybe a bit safer as your not downloading mail to your system but everyone has there own preferences.
If you still want one thunderbird is one of the best imo and you just add your email providers details to it during the setup process, you would also need to set your providers security to none so that avast is able to scan the mail and provide the security itself http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/