Setting Up Email

An email (electronic mail) account is vital in today's world, as 90% of people already know. Parents can use email to get grade reports from teachers, teens can use it to keep up with friends, and businesses use it on a day-to-day basis. Having an email account makes life easier... when it works properly. These tips will be very useful to your internet life.

• Don't Use Your ISP Email - When you sign up for internet service from a local company (machlink, qwest, as examples), they usually provide you with access to an email account. You don't need it, and shouldn't bother setting it up. Other free email accounts allow you more space for emails (you can keep more emails without deleting them), and are easier to use.
• Signup for Gmail - GMail offers some of the email features that you never thought you would need. Signup is simple, free, and easy. You get several Gigabytes of 'storage space' (enough for thousands of emails), and more. The most important, best feature is GMail's web-interface. It organizes your email conversations by topic, making it extremely easy to keep track of back-and-forth emails.
• Forward your other Email to GMail - You can ask your ISP (internet provider) to forward any emails designated for yourname@yourisp.com to yourgmail@gmail.com. You can then easily setup GMail to send mail from this other address. [Go to Settings in the top right, click on "Accounts" in that screen, then click "Add another email address".]