Need Outlook Express email account? These are disparate things - what you need is an email account AND Outlook Express.

Need Outlook Express email account?

Posted on September 16, 2009 under Email, Outlook Express  |  Leave a comment

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I need an Outlook Express email account. I had one before my computer crashed and now I cannot get it back. Also is there way I can check the old email messages? Can you please help me out?

Sharon asks some basic but common questions regarding email and Outlook Express. I will first clear some misconceptions and then offer possible solutions to her Outlook Express woes!

Outlook Express doesn’t give you an email account

Outlook Express is an email client. In layman’s terms, it’s a program that lets you download, send and manage email messages and accounts.
Important: Outlook Express does not provide an email address hence the notion of “needing an Outlook Express email account” is incorrect. Thus, before you can start using the program you should have an email account. Was this confusing? OK, here we go again; In order to use Outlook Express this is what you need to do:

Checking older email messages with Outlook Express

Now to answer Sharon’s second question – can she check email messages on a computer that crashed? Is there a way she can retrieve those emails?
Firstly, data on a hard disk can be recovered but you would need to take it to a specialist. Secondly, if Sharon had opted to preserve a copy of the email message on the server when using Outlook Express then she can download these onto any other computer.

In conclusion: You don’t need an Outlook Express email account – what you need is an email account AND Outlook Express and then setup the program to download the messages on your computer.

Finally, Outlook Express is outdated. Microsoft has stopped the development and support for this program. They have released Windows Live Mail which is free just like its predecessor.

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