Chapter 23: E-Mail and Newsgroups Using Outlook Express

Chapter Introduction

The most popular use of the Internet is to send and receive messages from other Internet users. Windows XP comes with Outlook Express 6, Microsoft's free e-mail and newsreading program. You can also install and use any number of mail and newsreading applications, whether they are Microsoft products or not. Windows XP also comes with an Address Book for keeping track of names, addresses, e-mail addresses, or whatever information you happen to have about people.

This chapter describes how to use Outlook Express to send and receive e-mail messages, organize the messages you decide to keep, and read and post messages to Usenet newsgroups. If you correspond with people whose software can read messages written in HTML (the language in which Web pages are written), you can compose messages using Outlook Express. This chapter also describes how to use Address Book, both with or without Outlook Express.

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