Email: Do you Get It?

Quick survey:

How many use email? Attachments?
How many use AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc.?
How many use "standard" ISP?
How many use free ISPs?
How many use: Outlook? Netscape? Eudora?

Overview of what email is and how it works

Terminology:

SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol; the standard rules that many e-mail clients use to handle outgoing e-mail messages.
POP3—postoffice protocol version 3; the standard rules that many e-mail clients use to handle incoming e-mail messages.
MIME—multipurpose Internet mail extensions; a format for turning an e-mail attachment, such as a Microsoft Word file, into ASCII text so it can be sent from one e-mail account to another.

Microsoft's Complete Internet Guide and Web Tutorial All About Email

Popular Email Clients (programs)

Outlook Express included with Microsoft Internet Explorer
Outlook 97/98/2000 included with Microsoft Office
Eudora and Eudora Lite (free) from Qualcomm
Netscape Communicator
AOL 5.0
Compuserve 2000

Configuring various email clients (programs)

http://www.hereintown.net/configureemail.html

or see your ISP's help/support area

Free email/ISP services like Hotmail and NetZero

http://www.hotmail. (Microsoft)

http://freelane.excite.com/ (Excite)

http://www.netzero.net/

http://www.microav.com/ (AltaVista)

http://www.bluelight.com/

http://www.freei.net/

http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web

Gordon Bailey submitted this list of other free ISPs he used and tested (thanks Gordon!):

http://freeisp.xoom.com

http://www.address.com

http://www.freewwweb.com

http://www.freei.com

http://free.lycos.com

http://www.ifreedom.com

http://www.bootbox.net

http://www.worldspy.com

Composing, replying, sending and forwarding email

To: CC: BCC: Reply Reply to All Forward Redirect

Finding email addresses

http://people.yahoo.com/

http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/

Using multiple email accounts with one email client

Email viruses

Generally come from programs distributed as attachments, but can be documents, too. Rarely if ever an image.

Protect yourself with a virus program. Virus program makers:

http://www.symantec.com/nav/index.html

http://www.mcafee.com/centers/anti-virus/

http://www.drsolomon.com/home/home.cfm

Email signatures

Netiquette

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

Junk Email ("Spam") or UCE

Bottom line: don't use it in your business. Don't reply to it or do business with Spammers. Just ignore it.

Sending and receiving email attachments

Email your phone?!

AT&T Wireless Text Messaging

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