Outlook & Outlook express.What are they?

[jay]

I have been using my PC for 5yrs now and I have never quite discovered what outlook and outlook express actually do.

They appear now and again when I click on a link for an email address, but if I try to send using it ,the mail fails to go.

What are the for? I have managed to use email without them.

Would I be as well removing these programmes?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

• Outlook Express: free e-mail client and newsreader; part of Microsoft Windows.
  
• Outlook: e-mail client, tasks and appointment manager; part of Microsoft Office.
  

How, then, do you handle your email - Thunderbird? Or just web-based (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail)?

[andsome]

I have been using my PC for 5yrs now and I have never quite discovered what outlook and outlook express actually do.

They appear now and again when I click on a link for an email address, but if I try to send using it ,the mail fails to go.

What are the for? I have managed to use email without them.

Would I be as well removing these programmes?

As Pat says they are part of Microsoft software, you should NOT attempt to remove them They have to be configured to use for e mail. I use Outlook Express for that purpose. On my ISP it is a pop 3 account and uses pop.ntlworld to connect. I use Outlook mailnly as an address book coupled to Word. When I address envelopes with a couple of clicks I can get the address that I require straight into the envelope program in Word. Ask youir ISP how outlook Express should be configured to use as default e mail client. Someone will guide you through the process, it should take less than a minute. :D

[jay]

• Outlook Express: free e-mail client and newsreader; part of Microsoft Windows.
  
• Outlook: e-mail client, tasks and appointment manager; part of Microsoft Office.
  

How, then, do you handle your email - Thunderbird? Or just web-based (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail)?

Sorry I don't know what you mean by "handle your email" I just use it as normal and Outlook doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. I have tried (out of curiosity) to configure both outlooks several times, but they have never worked. What is email client?

I am genuinely puzzled!!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I am genuinely puzzled!!

Definitely - me too!

I just use it as normal and Outlook doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.

Really, then - what is "normal" if you don't use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Thunderbird??? Then what do you use for your email, if not an e-mail client as the three I have just listed?

[andsome]

Do you go to the website of your ISP and use Web mail?

[jay]

Do you go to the website of your ISP and use Web mail?

I supose it must be web mail. I use Onetel,Pipex (my ISP) Yahoo,Tiscali and My Way email. My question is,where does Outlook and Outlook Express come into this if all these email addresses work fine.

I suspect the question is too basic but I realy don't know what an "email client" does.

[-pops-]

An email client is just software (like Outlook Express) which enables you to use POP3 email services rather than web based ones.

If you are happy with the email service(s) you have, it would be best to stick to them and not bother about POP3 and similar methods. I know lots of people that use web mail only and, like you, don't have any knowledge of POP3. There is nothing wrong with that, as I said, if you are satisfied with your email system as it is, best leave well alone.

Do NOT, though, try and delete Outlook Express from your setup. Is it part of Windows and there is a possibility of damaging the system you have if you try to delete it.

Outlook (NOT Outlook Express) is a part of MS Office and can be removed if you need to do so. To remove it in the correct fashion, you need the Office disks. Insert the first one and follow the instructions for removal of Office components. Personally, I would leave it there. It doesn't take up much disk space if it isn't used and, as with all software removal, there is always the chance disturbing other things.

[jay]

An email client is just software (like Outlook Express) which enables you to use POP3 email services rather than web based ones.

If you are happy with the email service(s) you have, it would be best to stick to them and not bother about POP3 and similar methods. I know lots of people that use web mail only and, like you, don't have any knowledge of POP3. There is nothing wrong with that, as I said, if you are satisfied with your email system as it is, best leave well alone.

Do NOT, though, try and delete Outlook Express from your setup. Is it part of Windows and there is a possibility of damaging the system you have if you try to delete it.

Outlook (NOT Outlook Express) is a part of MS Office and can be removed if you need to do so. To remove it in the correct fashion, you need the Office disks. Insert the first one and follow the instructions for removal of Office components. Personally, I would leave it there. It doesn't take up much disk space if it isn't used and, as with all software removal, there is always the chance disturbing other things.

I am not realy interested in removing Outlook/Outlook express,I am just curious about using them.I feel I am missing some of the benefits of using them, though what these are I still don't know.

As you say they are part of windows and I would like to use them,but have never been able to get them working.

What does POP3 do??????

[catgate]

What does POP3 do??????

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/sDefi...i212805,00.html

[Irene]

Here is an example of how to set up to access Yahoo Mail.....

READ THIS

If correctly set up, it would allow you to retrieve your emails, without requiring you to access the website.

[jay]

Here is an example of how to set up to access Yahoo Mail.....

READ THIS

If correctly set up, it would allow you to retrieve your emails, without requiring you to access the website.

But I CAN retrieve my emails without accessing the website.I just click on my mail and there it is!

This whole outlook thing is a mystery.What exactly does it do????

[Irene]

Do you go to the website of your ISP and use Web mail?

I supose it must be web mail. I use Onetel,Pipex (my ISP) Yahoo,Tiscali and My Way email. My question is,where does Outlook and Outlook Express come into this if all these email addresses work fine. I suspect the question is too basic but I realy don't know what an "email client" does.

Your questions have already been answered in other posts.

Are you reading / looking at the responses?

LOOK HERE FOR EMAIL CLIENT EXPLANATION

Onetel, Yahoo and Tiscal are ALL web based. So, when you say that you don't access the website, you are wrong.

When you touch the icon on your desktop, it will automatically take you to the website, where you will be required to log in, in order to access your mail.

[catgate]

but I realy don't know what an "email client" does.

It is pointless looking at the words EMAIL and CLIENT and expecting them to make sense. The entire world of computers is built around words that have been taken,at some point, out of context, and have had different meanings attached to them.

Basically it depends on what Bill Gates and his crew use as "inhouse shorthand" to describe something. Then this word or phrase is "built in" and all the world must somehow get round to finding out what it means. There is also something of being "with it" if you can use lots of odd phrases and ever longer acronyms.

It's a minefield out there!

[jay]

Do you go to the website of your ISP and use Web mail?

I supose it must be web mail. I use Onetel,Pipex (my ISP) Yahoo,Tiscali and My Way email. My question is,where does Outlook and Outlook Express come into this if all these email addresses work fine. I suspect the question is too basic but I realy don't know what an "email client" does.

Your questions have already been answered in other posts.

Are you reading / looking at the responses?

LOOK HERE FOR EMAIL CLIENT EXPLANATION

Onetel, Yahoo and Tiscal are ALL web based. So, when you say that you don't access the website, you are wrong.

When you touch the icon on your desktop, it will automatically take you to the website, where you will be required to log in, in order to access your mail.

Yes I am reading at all resposes! Thank you. As I said "I supose it must be web mail" now thanks to your explanation

I KNOW it is.

[Irene]

One final message...

Outlook or Outlook Express could collect all of you emails, from all of your web based emails, in one go, once it is set up to do so. :D

If we can be of any further help.... ;)

[jay]

One final message...

Outlook or Outlook Express could collect all of you emails, from all of your web based emails, in one go, once it is set up to do so. :D

If we can be of any further help.... ;)

Thanks Irene,I've just printed out instructions from your link. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

B)

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

But I CAN retrieve my emails without accessing the website.I just click on my mail and there it is!

This whole outlook thing is a mystery.What exactly does it do????

I use Microsoft Outlook as my email client. The various email account types (POP/SMTP, IMAP, Exchange Server) at the end all retrieve my mail into my computer, where I can archive, sort, index, and whatnot with it. I have stored some 50,000 emails since 1995, and through my desktop search I can find any of them within seconds.

This would be impossible with multiple web-based email accounts, except if I also would retrieve the messages with my email client. (Mail client, on the local computer, retrieves mail, whereas the web server distributes mail.)

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

... The entire world of computers is built around words that have been taken,at some point, out of context, and have had different meanings attached to them.

Basically it depends on what Bill Gates and his crew use as "inhouse shorthand" to describe something. Then this word or phrase is "built in" and all the world must somehow get round to finding out what it means. There is also something of being "with it" if you can use lots of odd phrases and ever longer acronyms.

It's a minefield out there!

No, no, no, no, no - the world of computers and its language has begun long before Bill Gates was even born. Lots of these technical terms have existed before Microsoft, and they make perfectly sense to those people who are interested. It is just now - in the last 10 years, basically - that suddenly everybody has a computer, but no understanding or interest in what's behind it. Like the original poster here, who doesn't understand the term email client, but at the same time doesn't really want to know.

[jay]

... The entire world of computers is built around words that have been taken,at some point, out of context, and have had different meanings attached to them.

Basically it depends on what Bill Gates and his crew use as "inhouse shorthand" to describe something. Then this word or phrase is "built in" and all the world must somehow get round to finding out what it means. There is also something of being "with it" if you can use lots of odd phrases and ever longer acronyms.

It's a minefield out there!

No, no, no, no, no - the world of computers and its language has begun long before Bill Gates was even born. Lots of these technical terms have existed before Microsoft, and they make perfectly sense to those people who are interested. It is just now - in the last 10 years, basically - that suddenly everybody has a computer, but no understanding or interest in what's behind it. Like the original poster here, who doesn't understand the term email client, but at the same time doesn't really want to know.

If I didn't really want to know I would not have posted. I AM INTERESTED!!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

OK, bassic introduction to E-mail clients: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client

[jay]

Followed instruction very carefully but outlook still doesn't work! Messed up my mail.

GIVE UP!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

What instructions?

What means "doesn't work"?

[-pops-]

If you have a working email system then, if I were you, I would forget about Outlook or Outlook Express.

There are plenty of email systems around and there is no requirement to use either of those two.

[Dencandy]

For me the great advantage of an e-mail client like Outlook Express is that it cuts out all the advertisements and so speeds up access to what I'm interested in - my e-mail!

B)