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With the advent of computer technologies, many technological solutions have been implemented for the visually impaired so that they can utilize them and benefit from them. Considering it a key idea we have built a desktop application that will help blind people to send and read emails as ordinary people do. In this research paper, we describe the VMAIL system architecture for the Python platform that can be used by a Blind Person to access e-mails easily. The application uses a text-to-speech, voice recognizer to facilitate sending and reading, and emails using a computer. The Internet has become one of the basic amenities for day-to-day living. Every human being is widely accessing knowledge and information through the internet. However, blind people face difficulties in accessing these text materials, also in using any service provided through the internet. The advancement in computer-based accessible systems has opened up many avenues for the visually impaired across the globe in a wide way. Audio feedback-based virtual environments like screen readers have helped Blind people access internet applications immensely. We describe the Voicemail system architecture that can be used by a Blind person to access e-Mails easily and efficiently.