Being unpopular, writing courses tend to attract few students. One reason for this lies in the limitations inherent in traditional "one-shot" form of evaluation. With the dissemination of process studies, a portfolio, an ongoing index of student development, has found its place in composition pedagogy.Congruently, the attractions of technology in classrooms inspired the researcher to incorporate e-mail into an EFL writing class. The present qualitative research aimed at investigating in an electronic fashion the nature of student comments, their reaction to teacher comments, and their views on portfolio use. Twelve Iranian EFL learners doing their writing course with the researcher were required to make computer files of their works to be emailed to the instructor at the end of the study along with their own reflections on them. Descriptive analysis of the PORTFOLIOS indicated a number of recurring themes, highlighted patterns of student reactions, and was suggestive of a general positive attitude toward portfolio use.