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Since you already have an Internet connection, you probably has an e-mail (electronic mail) account too. If so, then you have an e-mail address, the address people use when they want to send you an e-mail message. All e-mail addresses look something like someone@somewhere.xxx (unlike a Web site's URL, which looks something like www.somplace.xxx) Before you can use e-mail, you need to know your own e-mail address, and the password required to retrieve e-mail messages that other people have sent you. Only your Internet Service Provider can give you that information. To send and receive e-mail, you use a program known as an e-mail client. There are lots of different ISPs in the world, and lots of different e-mail clients. If you ever need to ask someone a question about using your e-mail, you won't be able to get an answer until the person you're asking knows what program you're using as your e-mail client. In some cases, they'll be able to guess just by knowing the domain name of your e-mail service. The domain name is the part that comes after the @ in your e-mail address. For example, if you e-mail address is wanda@aol.com, then the domain name is aol.com. If your e-mail address is harry@yahoo.com, then the domain name is yahoo.com. But knowing the domain name isn't always enough, because many ISPs let you choose what program you use for e-mail. For example, you might have an e-mail address like wilma@comcast.net. If so, you might be using a program named Outlook Express as your e-mail client, or you might be using Microsoft Outlook 2003 as your e-mail client. In short, getting a simple answer to a simple e-mail question isn't always so easy. Here we'll take a look at some different types of e-mail, and hopefully you'll be able to learn a bit about the e-mail system you're using. If you have an Internet account with America Online (AOL), and your e-mail address ends in @aol.com. then you probably use America Online (Figure 1) for e-mail.

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