Setting Up Your Email Program

There are many different email programs out there. Internet suites such as Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator include an email program—but you must take care when installing these programs not to optionally omit the email component of the suite. Choosing the “full” installation option when setting up a suite ensures that you include all the suite's client programs.

In the suites, the email programs are called

  • Messenger, in Netscape Communicator— You can open Messenger from within the Navigator browser by choosing Communicator, Messenger (see Figure 5.1).

    Figure 5.1. Netscape Messenger, the email program that's included in the Netscape Communicator suite.
  • Outlook Express, in Internet Explorer— You can open ...

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