Windows® 98 Unleashed

Chapter 34. Outlook Express and Internet Email

IN THIS CHAPTER

• A Brief Email Primer

• Getting Started with Outlook Express

• Understanding the Message Folders

• Working with the Windows Address Book

• Composing and Sending a New Message

• Reading Incoming Mail

• Working with Your Messages

• Finding Text, Messages, and People

• Customizing Outlook Express

And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

—W. H. Auden

With Windows 98, Microsoft has moved its messaging model away from the “universal inbox” concept that prevailed (however imperfectly) in Windows 95. For Internet email, the tool of choice in Windows 98 is Outlook Express—thanks to its built-in support for the SMTP and POP protocols, support ...