Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed

Chapter 19. Communicating with Windows Mail

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Setting Up Mail Accounts

• Handling Incoming Messages

• Sending Messages

• Maintaining Windows Mail

• Filtering Incoming Messages

• Finding a Message

If software programs can have inferiority complexes, Outlook Express, the email client that shipped with the previous few versions of Windows, would be a prime candidate. After all, Outlook Express was always seen as the poor cousin of Outlook, Microsoft’s flagship email client. That might have been a bad rap because Outlook Express 6, the version that shipped with Windows XP, was a mature, full-featured client that did just about everything Outlook does. (The exception was that Outlook Express didn’t support scripting. But that was really a mark in its ...