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If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer as your internet browser, you also have an e-mail program called Outlook Express. This tutorial is based on Outlook Express. If you use America Online (AOL) skip this tutorial.
An e-mail program is mostly independent of the internet. E-mail programs only use the internet to transmit messages to and from ISP locations on the internet. Your ISP stores your incoming e-mail messages until you retrieve them with your e-mail program. Your ISP sends your outgoing messages when you command it to do so from your e-mail program. Outlook Express When Outlook Express is loaded onto your PC, Its icon link is located either on the desktop task bar or somewhere on the desktop itself, or both. You can spot it from its icon which looks like the the following:
You open Outlook Express by double clicking its icon if it's on the desktop, or single clicking if it's icon is on the windows taskbar. A third way to open Outlook Express is from the Internet Explorer Browser frame. Opening Outlook Express From the Browser To open e-mail from the Internet Explorer browser, you left click the Mail icon on the browser frame. The mail icon is located where indicated in the following snippet:
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Click Read Mail as shown on the following snippet and Outlook Express will open and check for incoming mail.
When you check your e-mail, you must be connected to the internet. However, as soon as all your e-mail messages are downloaded to you, you can close your internet connection. You should close it if you plan to answer the e-mail you have just received. There is no point in being connected when you're composing e-mail. Closing the internet connection is quick and easy. Double click the twin monitors icon on the task bar as indicated in the following snippet:
After clicking the twin monitors icon you'll see some kind of shutdown dialog box, similar to rhe following:
Click the Disconnect button to close the internet connection. Outlook Express The first page in Outlook Express is too busy but I want you to see it before I show you how to get rid of it. Next Page To Index |
