Internet Email Systems.

There are hundreds of internet sites that give you free email use.The typical ones are hotmail, yahoo and gmail.

Hotmail is part of MSN, Miscrosoft Network.

Gmail is part of Google's services.

Yahoo Mail is part of Yahoo's services.

These are websites that you log into and view your emails. There is also software for receiving and sending emails. Outlook is the software that Microsoft have created and it works by constantly getting information from a server to see if you have received emails.

All of these packages are similar, but not exactly the same, however they all seem to have the following features in common.

Inbox

Outbox / Sent Items

Calendar

Contacts

Distribution Lists

Internet Index

PC Training Index

Computer Training Index

Homepage

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