Email

As most people are familiar with email, we will touch upon some basics that often get overlooked, and we will learn to do some advanced options.

HTTP mail pros and cons:
Pro: It is ubiquitous and free. A person can check email from any computer in the world on the Internet. A person can open several email accounts to sort out work and home or reroute potential spammers. Many HTTP mail services will allow you to check your POP3 email through them.
Con: Once the mailbox fills a person must either begin paying for service, copying and pasting years of email to their hard drive, or deleting their messages.

POP3 mail pros and cons:
Pro: POP3's key advantage is that it downloads your email and attachments to your personal computer rather than hosting them on a remote server. Thus, you can save 10 gigabytes of email back to the 1980s if you want if you have the hard drive space.
Con: It's difficult to access away from home unless you set up an HTTP email account and specially configure it to download your POP3 mail. It's hard to have multiple POP3 accounts for family members on the same computer without all the mail blending together. One must set up profiles and reroute mail, which can be complicated and annoying. Most homes with two POP3 email accounts usually have two computers.

Some advanced email features and issues:

You may set your email to be plain text or HTTP

You would chose plain text if you need to be certain your mail can be interpreted by ancient email programs. Otherwise, chose Rich Text (HTML)

When you mail in HTML you can change email text font sizes and colors and backgrounds. If you check "Send Pictures with Message," any attached graphics become part of the email body rather than a separate file that needs to be opened separately. When you type a Web address or email address they become live hyperlinks.

Filter Email

You can filter your email to route senders to their own folders, or to get rid of spam. For example, if you tell your students when they email you to always put their class period number in the subject line, then you can set up a sorting system in September that downloads each class's submissions into its own folder.

Tools > Message Rules...

Move Address Book to Another Computer

If you are using Outlook Express you can move your entire address book by searching your computer for your Windows Address Book .WAB file. Take that file to another computer and either use it to overwrite the unwanted .WAB file on the new computer. Example: if the file you are moving is called JANE.WAB and the new computer has an empty DEFAULT.WAB, you delete DEFAULT.WAB and rename JANE.WAB to DEFAULT.WAB. Then you will not have to import it. It will be embedded the next time you open Outlook Express. If you leave the file named JANE.WAB you will need to import it from the File menu.

If you are using Outlook and not Outlook Express, you would move your outlook.psd file.

Good email site: everythingemail.net/index.html
BTW, here is a list of common email acronyms