hen you move house, you can get the Post Office to redirect your mail from your old address to your new one. In a similar way, we can get the computers to forward mail from one email address to another. There is also a related choice called an email alias, where people can use more than one mailbox name to …
o how do I send email out? In addition to the settings for collecting email that we’ve discussed in our previous article, there are some for sending email. Computers have different procedures for receiving and sending email, the sending one is called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a lie because it is anything but simple). The settings are …
o how do I access and read my email? The two main ways of getting at your email are running a program specially written to handle your email called an email client, and using your web browser to visit a website which is often given the name webmail. It is often easier to work with the email client, but webmail …
o how do I set up an email account? That depends on where you are going for your email. A number of companies, like Google (gmail.com) and Microsoft (live.com), offer free mailboxes on their domains. You choose a mailbox name which doesn’t already exist, and create the account with the company. Your mailbox name has to be unique at that …
mail is a way of sending a message to someone electronically. As you might expect from the name, it works very similar to the regular mail system. You write a message, put an address on it, then pop it in a postbox to make its way through a number of sorting offices until it is finally delivered to a mailbox, …