Chapter 7
Emailing Family and Friends
IN THIS CHAPTER
Sending, receiving, and responding to email
Sending and receiving files and pictures
Telling the Mail app how to handle email
Setting up an email account
Every day, billions of email messages circle the globe, conveying greetings, news, jokes, even condolences.
Email also provides a way to send and receive attachments, such as documents or photos. Who needs faxes or postcards?
The Mail app gives you access to email using your Microsoft Account. Your Microsoft Account can be associated with an email address from any email service provider, including Microsoft’s own Hotmail (www.hotmail.com), Live (www.live.com), Outlook (www.outlook.com), or Xbox (www.xbox.com). You can also use email services such as Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) and Gmail (www.gmail.com) without having a Microsoft Account. However, you have to access non–Microsoft Account email using a web browser or an app other than Microsoft’s Mail app. See Chapter 6 for information on browsing the web.
In this chapter, you use the Mail app for email. You compose, format, and send ...
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