How Do You Like Your Email?

During this meeting we are going to take a look at the various ways in which people use email. If you are a member of NJCC it is almost certain that you use at least one form of email. Some of you access your email in several different ways. We will look at the most common methods of email access and their problems. Then we will sample some of the alternatives within those methods of access.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Just about everyone uses an ISP to connect to the Internet. We pay for monthly or annual service and are given a number of services such as email mailboxes and even web page space. With an email address and mailbox we have a mechanism to send and receive email. IMAP POP3 and SMPT.

Hand held devices

Cell phones

Blackberry

Reading your email from your PC

Download your email and read it using

Outlook and Outlook Express

Mozilla and Thunderbird

Eudora

PocoMail

Text only email

Access your email through the WEB

Using your ISP

Hotmail Yahoo and Gmail There are also some lesser known providers (some of which are still free).

Problems with email

Virus Problems

Spyware (when using Microsoft Internet Explorer)

Spam Problems

Bandwidth Problems

Dealing with attachments such as

Documents

Pictures