How to use Outlook Express to send, receive, reply to, and forward Email messages. How to attach files to your Email messages. How to have Outlook Express automatically attach a signature file to each message you send. The purpose of this module is to assist you in configuring the Email program that is most commonly used with the Microsoft Explorer Web browser. By configuring this program, you enter essential information that the program needs to send and receive Email messages across the Internet.
Email is one of the most frequently used Internet activities.
According to Time magazine, approximately four billion Email messages were received in the United States during 1998 as compared to just over 100 billion pieces of first-class mail received through the U.S. Postal Service during the same year. As with any computer-related activity, there are many different programs that can be used to send and receive Email. Microsoft Outlook Express provides all of the essential and advanced features that a good mail program should have. The only way you can use your computer for Internet Email is to be authenticated by an Internet server. This means that you have to have a user ID and a password in order for your messages to pass through that server and out across the Internet, then across the Internet and back to your computer.