Chapter 22

This chapter explains how you can use Outlook Express, the newsreader program for Outlook and Internet Explorer, to work with newsgroups. If you’ve used Outlook for sending and receiving e-mail, you’ll feel right at home working with newsgroups in Outlook Express. Outlook Express lets you subscribe to newsgroups, download messages, and post messages just as easily as you send and receive e-mail.

NOTE: For information about using Outlook Express for e-mail, see Chapter 25.

Getting Around in Outlook Express

Outlook Express looks and works very much like Outlook, with a few minor differences. To launch Outlook Express from Outlook, choose View | Go To and then choose News. When you launch Outlook Express, you see a page very similar to Outlook Today, except instead of displaying frequently used folders, this page displays common tasks (see Figure 22-1). However, most of the time it’s easier just to use the folder pane on the left to switch between newsgroups and folders.

TIP: Outlook Express maintains its own folders, which you can’t access from Outlook.

NOTE: Depending on whether you chose to import settings from a different newsreader when setting up Outlook Express, your screen may look a little different from the one shown in Figure 22-1.