Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics, Third Edition

Chapter 24. Sending and Receiving Email

In This Chapter

• Setting Up Your Email Account

• Understanding the Outlook Express Window

• Managing Your Email

• Sending Files via Email

• Protecting Against Email Viruses

• Using Address Book to Manage Your Contacts

Email is the modern way to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. An email message is like a regular letter, except that it's composed electronically and delivered almost immediately via the Internet.

There are several programs you can use to send and receive email messages. If you're in a corporate environment, or running Microsoft Office, you can use Microsoft Outlook for your email. (Outlook is also a scheduler and personal information manager.) If you're connecting from home, the simpler Outlook ...