One of the most used and abused applications of the internet age is Electronic Mail. Email has actually been around for about 30 years. It's original purpose was the ability to send a simple text message from one server to another server. The academic who invented this 'Killer App' certainly could not have envisioned the onslaught of spam, worms, viruses, chain letters, and jokes of the day.
In this section I will discuss some of the basic advice regarding the setting up, configuring, sending and receiving email.