The best price: £FREE (Outlook Express 5.5)

Member Name: dooyooexpert

Product:	Outlook Express 5.5
Date:	20/06/01 (1889 review reads)
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Advantages: Free, easy to use, lets you check multiple email accounts with the click of a button

Disadvantages: Quite difficult to setup your email accounts to use outlook express, -, -

I use Microsoft Outlook Express to quickly check and download any new emails I may recieve.
Using a piece of software such as this has a few advantages and benifits.

Advantage 1:
Outlook Express can be used for multiple email accounts and also for multiple email users.
Using this is software I can simply click on "Send/Recieve" and the program will automatically access, check and download any emails in each of my individual email accounts.

Advantage 2:
Using outlook express it is possible to use the "email rules" facility that allows you to create rules on how certain emails from particular senders are treated.
E.g. you could set-up a rule, which downloads emails from a particular sender to a particular folder, which would be separate from the main general input box.
Therefore you could setup outlook express to download emails from people from work into a separate folder from your personal friends and family.

Advantage 3:
Using outlook express means that you don't have to remember your email usernames and passwords.
Also you don't even have to visit the email account websites to access your mail.
Outlook stores your usernames and passwords for each of your email accounts and accesses them whenever you want without visiting any of the email service websites.


Outlook express can be customized completely to suit your particular needs.
You can modify the layout, add folders, change toolbars and you could even set the program up to check and download your email at regular intervals, e.g. every 5 minutes...

--Newsgroups--

Outlook express also has a brilliant newsgroup window and setup wizard.
So if you want to join a particular newsgroup, e.g. a man united newsgroup, outlook express will let you do this.

Also setting up the program to check your different email accounts requires alittle bit of information about each of your email serv
ice providers and your account details.
There is a brilliant wizard that will help you setup your email accounts to work with outlook express.
In general you will need your username, your password, the POP incoming address and SMTP outgoing address.


--Places to get it--

You can download outlook express from the microsoft website for completely free of charge.
However if you have the latest version of microsoft internet explorer you should already have it because it comes as standard with the web browser...

All in all a great email management package and definetely worth using by any regular email user...

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