To Check your email:

The following simple instructions can be applied once certain default settings in Outlook Express are changed. This configuration is ideal for new users who want to just check their email, and disconnect straight away.

Ø It allows them to open O.E. without being bothered or pressured by the dialler to Connect.

Ø They can then compose new, or read old emails that will rest in their Inbox/Outbox awaiting the next Send/Receive command, thereby allowing all emails to be sent at once.

Ø It also stops addresses from being added to their address book of whom you have replied to. Sometimes you will reply to businesses just the once, and never intend to correspond again, so why clutter up your address book with strangers?

Ø And in case they forget to disconnect, it will do it automatically after checking.

Change these settings;

1. Open Outlook Express and cancel the dialler if it appears.

2. Go to the Tools Menu > Options.

3. General Tab: Add tick to When starting, go directly to My Inbox Folder.

4. General Tab: Remove tick for Send and Receive messages at Startup.

5. Send Tab: Remove tick for Send Messages Immediately.

6. Send Tab: Remove tick for Automatically put people I reply to into my Address Book.

7. Connection Tab: Add tick to Hang Up after Sending and Receiving.

To Check for email:

1. Open Outlook Express by Double Left Clicking the email icon on your Desktop.

2. Click the SEND/RECEIVE button at the Top.

3. When the Dialler appears, click CONNECT.

4. You will hear the Modem dial up.

5. You will see the process of checking and/or receiving email.

6. When ticked and finished, the modem will disconnect automatically and free up your phone line.

7. New emails will now be in your Inbox (3), and they will stand out as bold.

8. Double left click over them to Open them and read.

To Write an email:

1. Open Outlook Express by Double Left Clicking the email icon on your Desktop.

2. Double Left click the recipient’s names in your Contact List to the left of your screen.

3. Click into the Subject field to add a subject, and then click into the main body or bottom part of the email to compose your letter.

4. When complete, click the SEND button. This is located within the top left of your new email.

5. It is now stored in the Outbox (1) folder waiting to be sent the next time your Send/Receive.

To Send an email:

1. Click the SEND/RECEIVE button at the Top.

2. When the Dialler appears, click CONNECT.

3. You will hear the Modem dial up.

4. You will see the process of checking and/or receiving email.

5. When ticked and finished, the modem will disconnect automatically and free up your phone line.

To Reply to an email already received, and send it back

1. With the email Opened, click REPLY.

2. The curser will now be positioned at the Top in order for you to type into it.

3. Click SEND when complete, and follow the steps To Send.

Adding an address to your Contacts list:

1. Single Right Click over an email listed in your Inbox.

2. In the menu that appears left click “Add Sender to Address Book”.

Facts:

1. You do not have to be connected to the Internet to write an email.

2. You must dial up in order to check for new emails and send them.