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• backgrounds you can use in your emails
• emoticons (smileys) you can add to your emails
• 3D effects
• animated graphics
• sounds and sound effects
• animated email notifiers

• a duck that waddles up and quacks at you (my son got a kick out of this one)
• a puppy that barks at you
• a butler that says "You have mail madam" (probably says "sir" if you are a man
• a cursor that spells out "message waiting"
• a big happy face that says "you have an email"
• a mail box that says "new mail arrived" while it opens up and puts a letter inside
• random so you get a different notifier each time

• backgrounds (so many to choose from, how do I choose)
• animations (cute little characters and other things you can add to your emails)
• sounds (make your emails make sounds, say things or play songs)
• e-cards (send a Happy Birthday or other type of card right in your IncrediMail emails)

• change fonts - This means that you can change the way your letters look. Try it out and see what I mean.
• font size and color - Make your words bigger or smaller if you want to and change the colors too.
• emoticons - These are those cute little smiley faces you see lurking around chat boards and forums. You can add them to your emails now. No matter what you're feeling you will find an emoticon to match.
• insert picture - You can put a picture right in your email. It doesn't get inserted just as an attachment either, but is instead embedded in your email.
• recorder - Record a voice message instead of typing. This is great for sending messages to small children or people who can's see or read email.

1. Open Outlook Express.
2. In the menu at the top of Outlook Express click on "Tools". Then scroll down to "Accounts" and click on that also.
3. A box will pop up. On the right side of the box you will see a button that says "Add", click on it. A short menu will pop up when you click on it. From this menu click on "News".
4. Another box will pop up. In this box you will see that it wants you to enter your name. You don't have to use your real name if you don't want to. Enter the name you want people to know you by in the newsgroups. Then click "Next".
5. The next window will want you to enter your email address. If you want people to be able to reply to you by email from the newsgroups then enter your email address here. If you don't want people in the newsgroups to know your email address then enter something else here. Then click "Next".
6. In the next window enter the newsgroup address that your internet service provider gave to you so that you can access the newsgroups. It will probably look something like news.isp.com. If you don't know what this is then look through the paperwork your ISP gave you when you signed up. It's probably listed next to or with the information you needed to use to set up your email. If you still can't find it you will need to call your ISP and ask them for it.
7. Click the button that says "My news server requires me to log on". After you enter your news server information click "Next".
8. Now you will need your username and password. You should have also received these from your ISP. They are most likely the same username and password you use to get your email. Enter your username and password in their respective places. If you want your computer to always remember your username and password click the button that says "Remember Password". Then click on "Next".
9. At the next window click "Finished".
10. When that pop up window goes away you will be brought back to the original pop up window. Click "Close" on this window.

1. After you have finished setting up your Outlook Express newsgroup account you will be asked if you want to add newsgroups. Click "Yes". If you don't see this box pop up then click on the name of your newsgroups in the left hand column. If the box still doesn't pop up then click on the button at the top of the screen that says "Newsgroups".
2. You may be asked to verify your username and password or it may just log in for you. Log in if you need to.
3. All the newsgroups available will start to download. This may take awhile depending on your connection speed.
4. When the newsgroups are finished downloading you can start searching for newsgroups that you want to join. Lets say you are a cat lover and want to join a newsgroup about cats. Type in the word cats. Look through the newsgroups about cats and see if there are any you want to join, you can always unsubscribe from newsgroups later if you don't like them.
5. When you find a newsgroup you want to join click on the name of the newsgroup and then click on the button that says "Subscribe".
6. Search for and subscribe to more newsgroups.
7. When you are finished subscribing to newsgroups click the "OK" button at the bottom of the window.
8. All your newsgroups will now be showing in the left hand column.

1. Click on the newsgroup you want to read first.
2. News for that newsgroup will now download.
3. When all the news is finished downloading just click on the title you want to read and you can read it in the right hand column.

1. Click on the button at the top of the screen that says "Newsgroups".
2. There are three tabs in this window. Click on the one that says "Subscribed". This will show you all the newsgroups you are subscribed to.
3. Click on the title of the newsgroup you want to unsubscribe from.
4. Click on the "Unsubscribe" button.
5. When you are finished unsubscribing you can click on the "OK" button.
6. The newsgroups you unsubscribed from will be gone from your left column now. 

1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Click on "Tools" in the menu at the top of the page and then on "Options".
3. Click on the "Signatures" tab in the box that pops up.
4. Click on the button that says "New".
5. Type your signature into the "Text" box. You can put your name, your Web page address, your email address, a favorite poem or saying, something else, or all if these things.
6. Click on the "Rename" button and give your signature a name. This can be anything you want, like "Linda's Signature".
7. At the top of the window is a checkbox that says "Add signature to outgoing emails". If you want your signature on all your emails, click this. If you want to choose which emails you want your signature on, don't click this. If you do click this you will also have the option to choose if you want your signature on emails you reply to or forward to other people.
8. If you have more than one email address on Outlook Express click on the "Advanced" button. Choose which emails you want to use this signature with.
9. Click "OK" and you're finished. Now when you click on "Create Mail" at the top of Outlook Express you will see your signature show up. You can then add your message to your email and send emails with your signature on them.

Setting Up Gmail Notifier

1. From your Gmail page click on the link at the top of the page that says "Settings".
2. Scroll down the page until you see "Get the Gmail Notifier" and click on it.
3. A new window will pop up or a new tab will open with the download information. Choose either Windows or Mac depending on what operating system you are using. Then click the button that says "Download Gmail Notifier".
4. Choose "Save To Disk" and click "OK". If you are given a choice where to save the program then save it to your desktop so you can find it easier.
5. Find the icon on your desktop that says "GmailInstaller". Double click on the icon to start downloading.
6. Read the license agreement. Click "I agree".
7. Choose "Standard" install and then decide if you want Gmail notifier to run on startup and also if you want to use Gmail notifier for outgoing email. Then click "Next".
8. The next screen asks where to download Gmail notifier to. Leave this alone unless you really want to download it to a particular place. Click "Next".
9. On the next window click "Install".
10. When it Gmail notifier is finished installing click the "Close" button.
11. You will now see a little envelope in the bottom right hand corner of your page. Gmail notifier is now installed and running.

Setting Up ISP Email With Yahoo! Mail

1. Sign up for and sign into Yahoo! Mail.
2. Click "Options" listed at the top, right hand side of the page.
3. Click the link that says "Mail Addresses".
4. Click the "Add" button to start adding your email address to Yahoo! Mail.
5. Name your account. This is whatever you want to call it. Call it "My email" if you want to. Then click "Continue listed at the bottom of the bottom of the page.
6. In the box where it asks for "Mail Server" put the server name your ISP gave to you. It will look something like mail.server.com or pop3.server.com .
7. In the box labeled "Username" put the username you use to get your email from your ISP. This may have been something you chose or it could have been given to you.
8. Next put in your password. This was given to you at the same time as your username by your ISP. It's usually something personal that you chose yourself.
9. If you want emails received from this email address to show up in Yahoo! Mail in a different color then choose the color here. Then click the button that says "Setup Mail Server".

Edit Yahoo! Mail Options

1. When you get back to the page that has all your email addressees accounts listed click on the name of the one you want to edit. Click the "Edit" button. Editing the email address may be very important.
2. Look down to the "Deliver To" box. You can put your emails from this email address in another folder other than the Inbox if you want to.
3. See where it says "Leave mail on POP server". This means that if you want to read your emails on Yahoo! Mail but you still want to be able to retrieve them on your other email program later you want to check this box. If you are always going to read your emails on Yahoo! Mail and you are never going to download them to another email program then uncheck this box.
4. "Retrieve new messages only" is useful when you have the "Leave mail on POP server" box checked. You've already read yesterdays email but you still have it stored on the server so you can download it to Outlook Express when you get home from vacation. You only want to retrieve messages you haven't already downloaded and read.
5. "Use filters" allows you to set up filters for certain messages. Say you want all the messages from your mom to go to it's own folder. You can set that up using the filter option that Yahoo! Mail also offers.
6. Click "Save changes" when finished.

Checking Your New Email

1. When you're finished setting up your ISP email address on Yahoo! Mail you can start retrieving it. Click on "Mail" in the menu at the top of the page.
2. You'll see a box in the left hand column called "Check Other Mail". In this box is the names of the ISP email addresses you set up. Click on the one you want to check.
3. You will now be taken to your new emails. Click on the one you want to read and you are reading your ISP email on Yahoo! Mail. 

• Display Name: Put your name here. Enter it the way you want people to see it when you are sending them emails.
• E-Mail Address: Enter your full email address the way someone would type it in to send you an email. Should look something like; myname@ispname.com .
• My Incoming Server Is a: This should be POP3.
• Incoming Mail Server: You should have received this information from your ISP. Check the paperwork you received when you signed up or call and ask them what it is. It should probably look something like this; mail.ispname.com .
• Outgoing Mail Server: You also should have received this from your ISP when you signed up along with the incoming mail server. It should look something like this; mail.ispname.com or smtp.ispname.com .
• Account Name: This is also known as "user name". It's a name you gave to your ISP when you signed up so you can access your email. It's probably the same as the first part of your email address, the part before the @ sign.
• Password: You should have either picked a password when you signed up for your email account or been given a password, could be anything.
• Remember Password: If you are the only one using your computer or you don't care if other people read your email then check this box. If you don't want other people being able to access your email then uncheck this box.
• Log On Using Secure Password Authentication: If your ISP's instructions tell you to check this then check it, otherwise leave it unchecked.

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