Whats the easiest way to set up a windows email?? ( explain??)?

To answer this question let me explain a little bit about email system.





Firstly windows only provide the products that can connect to thirds party email servers like yahoo, hotmail or corporate email systems.





Email system like yahoo, hotmail,gmail etc work on a pop3 convention, pop3 is a standard and corporate emails have there own standards.





windows provides two products MICROSOFT OUTLOOK and OUTLOOK EXPRESS.





Both products will connect to any email server.


You have to add an account and select pop3 as type for hotmail, yahoo , gmail of any other public domain emails.





If you are using yahoo mail then they charge a small fee to provide POP3 access to there email server to retrieve your emails for that you will have to contact yahoo to gain access.


However I know there is a utility available for download for free that will bypass this fee. Google it.





To setup a pop3 access provide the information needs when setting up the account. You will need a seperate account setup for each @domain (hotmail, gmail or anything else).





Important point to note.


1. using windows email client bypasses virus scanning that is done when accessing the emails directly on gmail, hotmail or yahoo. Which exposes you computer to virus infections and subsequently everybody in your address book. I was once using windows client but soon gave up because of virus issues. It is not worth it.





2. The emails are downloaded from server directly onto your local drive, which means they are not available online when trying to read on the internet. I know some offer an option to keep it available online too, but I dont they work really well.





3. I have experience sync issues. Many times the email server resends the same emails again because the windows client failed to tell the server it has already received the email once.





4. Sent emails are not available online either.





So think carefully before switching. No option is available to upload all your emails should to you decide to switch back.





Regards


Ash


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