Before you can exchange email, you need to tell the E-Mail application how to make the appropriate connection to the server computer hosting your account. Where your World Wide Web server uses uses the HTTP protocol to transport page information, your outgoing and incoming Internet mail servers use mail protocols (SMTP and POP3) to move mail around the Internet.

Do you know the name of your email servers? If not, you will have to find out from your service provider, systems administrator, or resident know-it-all. After specifying the names of these servers, and your specific account information, as preference items in the software setup, you can send and receive email using your Internet connection. The following links describe how to set up three popular E-Mail applications to make use of an APSCC mail account.