Solutions in this chapter:

• Choosing security settings
• Invoking filtering
• Sending and receiving attachments
• Enabling Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Introduction

As the popularity and availability of the Internet have increased over the last few years, the use of e-mail has become equally widespread. No longer is it sufficient to have an e-mail address to share with friends. Now there are hundreds of e-mail services that provide vanity addresses based on hobbies, interests, political alignment, and even family names. In addition to choosing a reliable e-mail service provider from the hundreds (actually, thousands!) of choices on the Internet, you can also choose from a variety of e-mail clients. Some are good, some are bad, some have a limited feature set with a small price tag, some are feature-rich and costly.

Two of the most popular and reliable e-mail clients are Microsoft s Outlook Express and Qualcomm s Eudora. In addition to being solid mail clients with a long list of desirable e-mail features, these clients are available in similar offerings for both PC and Macintosh computers. Outlook Express is a free e-mail client that comes bundled with Microsoft s Internet Explorer, although it can be installed as a separate tool. Eudora comes in both free and pay versions, with the pay version adding some advanced features not available in the free version (the average e-mail user does not even necessarily need those features).

One other added benefit to using these two programs for e-mail is that both programs have Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) plug-ins available...