Importance of Outlook Express and comparison between Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express

Outlook Express is the e-mail client that is included with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is designed to gain access to their e-mail messages by dialing in to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to POP (Post office protocol) email messages from the remote server. This email client uses POP protocol to receive emails and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to send email messages.

The importance of Outlook Express is:

• It ensures you to take advantage of new technologies seamlessly send and receive E-mail, where it has the ability to receive mail from multiple e-mail accounts.
• You can create Inbox rules to filter and organize e-mail messages, which helps you to manage and organize your e-mail to communicate and share information more effectively.

Outlook Express is a different application from Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail client, which ships with Microsoft Office for Windows. The two programs do not share a common code base, but do share a common architectural philosophy. The similar names may lead to incorrectly conclude that Outlook Express is a stripped-down version of Microsoft Office Outlook.