Table of Contents
: Get Going with Outlook Express
Table of Contents: When the Postman knocks twice… 4 Where can I get Outlook Express? 4 Prerequisites for this Booklet 4 About the Author 4 Service Page for this Booklet 4 The Difference between Outlook and Outlook Express 5 Two Teams, Two Programs 5 Which is better? 5 Irreplaceable as a Calendar 5 Can the Two Co-Exist? 5 You’ll Need This: a Modem or ISDN Device 6 Cable, ADSL, Plug, or Satellite? 6 Installing a Modem 6 Connecting the Modem 7 Installing Drivers 7 Also not impossible: ISDN 8 Tips on Driver Installation 8 Don’t Forget the CAPIPORT Driver 8 Decisive: The Choice of Internet Service Provider10 Additional Uses: Online Services 10 Reliable: Local Providers 10 Cheap: Call by call 10 Dial-Up Networking and E-mail Accounts 11 The Magic Word is POP3 11 Setting up Dial-Up Networking 11 Trying Out the Connection 12 Setting up the E-mail Account 13 Tuning up your E-mail Account 14 An Overview – Outlook Express in Brief 15 Greetings from the Team: The first E-mail! 16 Sensible Basic Settings for Outlook Express 17 The Options Dialog Box 17 What does the Setting mean? 18 Be careful, you’re online! 18 Here’s how: Composing, Sending, and Retrieving E-mail Messages 19 Composing an E-mail Message 19 What Cc und Bcc mean 19 Writing Names in Plain English 20 Sending and Retrieving E-Mail Messages 20 Working with Multiple Accounts 21 Working with One Account 21 Replying Properly: Quoting and Carrying On a “Conversation” 22 Here’s how to quote! 22 Replying to All and Forwarding 22 Taking Charge of Your Contacts: Making Life Comfortable with the Address Book 23 Entering an Address 23 Adding Recipients to the Address Book 24 Adding Addresses Automatically 24 Faster with the Address Book 24 Creating a Distribution List 25 Here’s How to Secure the Data in Your Address Book 26 Sending Attached Files 27 Attaching a File to an E-mail Message 27 Compressing Data with Zip 28 The Zip Format 28 Creating a Zip Archive 28 Self-Extracting Archive 29 Alternatives to WinZip 30 Composing Colorful Letters with HTML Format 31 E-Mail for Pros: Receiving, Sorting, and Archiving32 Receiving and Sorting E-Mail Messages 32 Creating New Folders 33 Sorting Messages 33 Deleting E-Mail Messages 33 The Search Function: Finding E-Mail Messages 34 Quick and Comfortable: Administering Your Mail with Rules 35 Rules against E-Mail Advertising 36 Lists of Blocked Senders 37 Replying automatically with Rules 37 Pretty Secure: Encrypting E-mail with Pretty Good Privacy 39 Encrypting E-Mails 39 PGP and Outlook Express 39 Creating Keys 39 Sending E-Mail 40 Less Trouble: Cryptext 40 Digital ID? 40 Creating Profiles: Working with Identities 41 Creating a New Identity 41 Changing Identities 42 Managing Identities 42 Off to Usenet with Outlook Express 43 Setting up a News Account 43 Downloading Newsgroups 44 More Information from Descriptions 44 Following the Discussion 45 Tips and Tricks for Newcomers 46 Me too: here’s how to take part! 46 Downloading Usenet Articles for Offline Reading48 Better Organized: Tips and Tricks for Using News49 Considering Postings 49 Hiding Just Replies 49 Posting a Followup-To 50 Followup-to-poster 50 Genius: Searching with www.deja.com 51 Outlook Express Tips and Tricks 52 Outlook Express as Standard Mail Application 52 Synchronizing your Address Book with Outlook 52 Retrieving Mail Automatically 53 Mail: Determining Priority 53 Outlook Express with „the Outlook bar“ 54 Information from the Header 55 Home Page with Outlook Express 55 Checking your Account before Downloading 56 Taking Problems with Mail and News in Hand! 57 Foreign Characters are Mangled 57 Quoting Doesn’t Work! 57 News is Just Deleted 58 Protection Against Spam 58 Your Service Provider has no News Server 59 Technical “Junk”: Installing and Importing 60 Importing Messages 60 Removing Outlook Express 60 Are there Alternatives? 60