1. Advanced Guide to E-Mailing

2. Introduction In this e-mail guide you and explain will learn how to use e-mailing in an advanced way. I will go through on how to use folders, making an e-mail, setting priorities, setting auto- signatures, and adding attachments. This e- mail guide is for beginners who have never e- mailed before.

3. Adding Attachments To add an attachments you need to make an email. To make an e-mail, press ‘new’ underneath your inbox. In the corner press ‘add attachment’. Click the paperclip under the ‘send’ button and press ‘browse’ and find your file.

4. Using folders A folder is a group of e-mails in your inbox that you can put underneath the ‘folder’ section. This way you can sort your e-mails into different sections you would like, for example ‘school’, ‘coursework’, ‘personal’, ‘spam’ etc. Right click ‘inbox’ and press ‘create new folder’.

5. Changing Password As your e-mail account password has a default as ‘password’ you can easily change your password. Press ‘options’ at the top hand corner where your name is and there will be message options at the left hand side. Click ‘change password’ and put your old and new password in and press ok.

6. Dangerous Attachments Sometimes people can put harmful links onto your computer via email through risky links and they can spread through viruses, worms and Trojan Horses and they can spread through one computer to another. Every e-mail link can potentially be a hazard so you have to be careful and never open a link from an e- mail if you don’t know who the sender is. Also, having an updated anti virus software on your computer that can scan the link can help you from clicking on harmful links that can cause viruses.

7. Junk Mail and Spam Junk mail, also known as spam, is becoming increasingly popular around the Internet and many people can send it via e-mail to advertise something that they want people to see and as emailing is reasonably inexpensive many senders can send it millions than sending it by the post and it can be send in a matter of seconds. Many spam e-mails can contain viruses which can harm your computer. To prevent junk mail you can block junk e-mail, which already many built in e-mail programs have to stop spammers. You can avoid listing your e-mail address on the Internet and you can also hide your address from spammers by setting up a separate e-mail address dedicated just to Web transactions. A good way to also not get as much spam is to never reply to the e-mails and simply delete them.

8. Protecting Against Phishing (Spoofing) Phishing is a method that uses spam or pop up methods to steal identities. Typically, it involves an e-mail that looks official like from a bank yet they try and hack your computer and get personal information off you in which you may trust them but they’re a different link and it’s not actually an official company. If you suspect a link is not official, do not reply and don’t click on the link and fill in your information as it could be fake. If you aren’t too sure, contact the organisation using a legitimate phone number or open a browser and type in the bank’s name and make sure it’s the correct address before typing in information.

9. I hope this guide has helped you use the basics on e-mail. Happy e-mailing!