Type in “free email account” and the website of your choice into a search engine. Click on the appropriate link, hopefully bringing you to the setup page for the desired email account.

To bring up contacts, find the contacts tab or simply type in the first or last name of the person you want to email, or the beginning of their email address. Their email address and contact information should automatically pop up. This often means you don’t have to “save” someone as a contact in order to send them an email.

If you want to copy a person on the email, hit “CC,” which stands for “carbon copy. " If you want to copy a person on the email without the original recipient knowing that you’ve copied the email, hit “BCC,” which stands for “blind carbon copy. "