When you install it, the program will customize itself to use your modem. It then connects to an 800 number from which you select a local access telephone number. There are numerous features built in, such as a spell checker and automatic address book. You tell the address book to save the e-mail addresses from incoming mail. It is designed to be easy to use.
Several people can use the same program, making it ideal for a family.
After filling out some demographic information, you are now ready to write your messages. When done, you instruct the program to send them. At that point it connects by phone to a local access number. As it sends the messages, it also checks for incoming mail and then releases the phone line. The messages that you send and receive travel by way of the Internet, reaching any country in the world at no cost to you.