Windows Mail - Overview

If you have been looking for Outlook Express on you Vista computer, you will not find it. No, you are not totally without a way to get your email other than through your web browser.

Before I go any further, I feel the need to do a little review when it comes to the different types of email. As far as the average computer user is concerned there is two different types of email.

1. Web Based Email - This is the most common type of email. Web based is simple and easy to use from any computer that has internet access. All you have to do is open Internet Explorer type in your email provider's domain name. Then login with your email address and password.
   
2. POP Email - POP (Post Office Protocol) downloads your email to your computers hard drive. You need what is called an email client. There is several different ones. The two most common are Outlook and Outlook Express.Outlook Express has been replace in Windows Vista, with Window Mail.
   

This new version of an email client has several new features. An overview of the changes is the that it is easier to use along with some built in security features.