Chapter 8. Outlook Express 6

• Setting Up Outlook Express

• Sending Email

• Reading Email

Email is a fast, cheap , convenient communication medium; these days, it's almost embarrassing to admit that you don't have an email address. To spare you that humiliation, Windows XP includes Outlook Express 6, a program that lets you receive and send email messages. (Incidentally, don't confuse Outlook Express with Outlook, a far bigger and more complex corporate email program that's sold as part of the Microsoft Office software suite.)

To use Outlook Express, you need several technical pieces of information: an email address, an email server address, and an Internet address for sending email. Your Internet service provider or your network administrator is supposed to provide all of these ingredients .

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Tip: Outlook Express doesn't work with online services like America Online or SBC/Yahoo. Instead, you're supposed to check and send your email using the software you got when you signed up for these services.

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