Email: Most Popular Articles
These articles are the most popular over the last month.
Top 16 Free Email Services
If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You'll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 16 free email services reviewed here.
If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You'll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 16 free email services reviewed here.
Set Up Your Hotmail Signature
An email signature can include contact info, witty quotations, or even some self-marketing. Here's how to set up your signature to be automatically included in messages you compose in Windows Live Hotmail.
An email signature can include contact info, witty quotations, or even some self-marketing. Here's how to set up your signature to be automatically included in messages you compose in Windows Live Hotmail.
Access Hotmail with Outlook
Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.
Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.
MSN Hotmail Reviewed
MSN Hotmail comes with solid security features and a straight forward, easy to use yet quite powerful interface.
MSN Hotmail comes with solid security features and a straight forward, easy to use yet quite powerful interface.
Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account
Terminate and close your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.
Terminate and close your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.
How to Find Anybody's Email
You know how elusive email addresses are. Even if you once had a friend's address, you may not be able to locate or recall it now that you need it. Or maybe the address has changed. No matter whose email address you are looking for or how much you know about the person, here are eight strategies that you can use right now to help you find. You'll look in new places and obvious but oft-overlooked corners.
You know how elusive email addresses are. Even if you once had a friend's address, you may not be able to locate or recall it now that you need it. Or maybe the address has changed. No matter whose email address you are looking for or how much you know about the person, here are eight strategies that you can use right now to help you find. You'll look in new places and obvious but oft-overlooked corners.
Get Hotmail in Mac OS X Mail
Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.
Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.
Gmail Free Email Reviewed
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort.
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort.
Send Email from a PHP Script
One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.
One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.
Hotmail: Set Up a Mail Filter
Have Windows Live Hotmail organize incoming mail for you by moving it to the appropriate folder automatically.
Have Windows Live Hotmail organize incoming mail for you by moving it to the appropriate folder automatically.
Free Windows Email Programs
So, what is the best free email program for Windows? Is there a single best email client that works for everybody? No. There are many, and one of these great tools will work perfectly for you and your needs. (Windows)
So, what is the best free email program for Windows? Is there a single best email client that works for everybody? No. There are many, and one of these great tools will work perfectly for you and your needs. (Windows)
Get Hotmail in Outlook Express
Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.
Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.
Hotmail in iPhone Mail
Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.
Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.
GMX Mail - Free Email Service
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
AIM Mail Reviewed
AIM Mail, AOL's free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.
AIM Mail, AOL's free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.
Forward Windows Live Hotmail
Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).
Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).
YPOPs! Reviewed
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
IzyMail: POP & IMAP Hotmail
IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.
IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.
Change Your Gmail Password
Make it difficult for hackers to break into your Gmail account for any extended period of time by changing your password periodically.
Make it difficult for hackers to break into your Gmail account for any extended period of time by changing your password periodically.
Get Yahoo Mail in Outlook Free
Your Yahoo! Mail account is not made for the web alone. Here's how to download mail from a free Yahoo! Mail address into Outlook — and how to send through Yahoo! Mail, too.
Your Yahoo! Mail account is not made for the web alone. Here's how to download mail from a free Yahoo! Mail address into Outlook — and how to send through Yahoo! Mail, too.
Cc: and Bcc:
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to more than one person easily and fast.
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to more than one person easily and fast.
Top 11 Free POP and IMAP Email
Free email sounds nice, but isn't that the crippled deal where you get slow-loading pages and lots of ads? No and no. Some free email services offer POP or IMAP access, which means you can download your messages to any email program. Find the best free POP3 email service and free IMAP email services here.
Free email sounds nice, but isn't that the crippled deal where you get slow-loading pages and lots of ads? No and no. Some free email services offer POP or IMAP access, which means you can download your messages to any email program. Find the best free POP3 email service and free IMAP email services here.
OE: Access Free Yahoo! Mail
Using YPOPs!, you can download messages from your Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook Express and send mail conveniently, too. With IzyMail, you can even access all your online folders as if they were local.
Using YPOPs!, you can download messages from your Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook Express and send mail conveniently, too. With IzyMail, you can even access all your online folders as if they were local.
Windows Live Hotmail Reviewed
Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you a 5 GB of online storage, fast search, solid security and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you a 5 GB of online storage, fast search, solid security and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
httpmail - Hotmail in Mail.app
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Windows Live Hotmail email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Windows Live Hotmail email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)
Free Hotmail in Thunderbird
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.
Top 17 People Search Sites
Searching for people online? Looking for an email address? Look closer and find friends old and new as well as business contacts with these email address directories and people search engines. Here are your 17 best bets.
Searching for people online? Looking for an email address? Look closer and find friends old and new as well as business contacts with these email address directories and people search engines. Here are your 17 best bets.
Inbox.com Reviewed
Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program.
Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program.
Yahoo! Mail Classic Reviewed
Yahoo! Mail Classic is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out.
Yahoo! Mail Classic is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out.
Get Gmail in Outlook 2003
Would you like to read your Gmail email not only on the web but in Outlook as well? Here's how to set up a Gmail account in Outlook for sending and retrieving mail.
Would you like to read your Gmail email not only on the web but in Outlook as well? Here's how to set up a Gmail account in Outlook for sending and retrieving mail.
Email Undisclosed Recipients
Do you want to send an email to a number of people quickly, but without having each recipient's name show up for everybody? Here's how to send an email message to undisclosed recipients.
Do you want to send an email to a number of people quickly, but without having each recipient's name show up for everybody? Here's how to send an email message to undisclosed recipients.
Close Your Hotmail Account
Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)
Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)
Mozilla Thunderbird Reviewed
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2)
Back Up or Copy Outlook Data
Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.
Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.
Free Hotmail in Mac OS X Mail
You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.
You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.
Export Hotmail Contacts
Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.
Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.
Outlook Express: Free Hotmail
Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.
Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.
Top Free Mac Email Programs
An email client is built into Mac OS X, and it's not a bad one at all. But you shouldn't be satisfied with this default email program — at least not until you've checked out the free alternatives. Here are my top picks of free Mac email clients.
An email client is built into Mac OS X, and it's not a bad one at all. But you shouldn't be satisfied with this default email program — at least not until you've checked out the free alternatives. Here are my top picks of free Mac email clients.
FastMail Free Guest Account
FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, one of the best web-based email interfaces and few ads.
FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, one of the best web-based email interfaces and few ads.
Get Gmail in Outlook Express
When Outlook Express and Gmail meet (somewhere between Mountain View and Redmond), you can send and receive Gmail messages in Outlook Express.
When Outlook Express and Gmail meet (somewhere between Mountain View and Redmond), you can send and receive Gmail messages in Outlook Express.
Email from PHP with SMTP Auth.
Now the email from your PHP script won't send. Now it will. Here's how to make PHP send emails even through mail servers that require authentication.
Now the email from your PHP script won't send. Now it will. Here's how to make PHP send emails even through mail servers that require authentication.
Thunderbird + Free Yahoo! Mail
Download mail from your Yahoo! Mail account into Mozilla Thunderbird and send messages through the former from the powerful desktop email program, too.
Download mail from your Yahoo! Mail account into Mozilla Thunderbird and send messages through the former from the powerful desktop email program, too.
Access AOL Email with Outlook
Use your AOL email accounts with all the power of Outlook. Here's how to set up AOL screen names as IMAP email accounts in Outlook.
Use your AOL email accounts with all the power of Outlook. Here's how to set up AOL screen names as IMAP email accounts in Outlook.
Outlook: Out of Office Reply
While you are away from the computer, Outlook can automatically reply to incoming mail with a pre-written message telling senders when you'll be able to reply individually.
While you are away from the computer, Outlook can automatically reply to incoming mail with a pre-written message telling senders when you'll be able to reply individually.
Free Gmail in Windows Mail
Do you want to combine the ubiquity and space of a Gmail account with the power and comfort of your Windows Mail? Here's how to set up access to your Gmail email in Windows Mail.
Do you want to combine the ubiquity and space of a Gmail account with the power and comfort of your Windows Mail? Here's how to set up access to your Gmail email in Windows Mail.
FreePOPs Reviewed
FreePOPs is a highly flexible tool for accessing all kinds of resources — most prominently free web-based email accounts — in any email program through POP. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
FreePOPs is a highly flexible tool for accessing all kinds of resources — most prominently free web-based email accounts — in any email program through POP. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Web Search for Email Addresses
Search somebody's email address like you search for anything else on the Web (and successfully).
Search somebody's email address like you search for anything else on the Web (and successfully).
How to Steal a Password
Hacking into somebody's (your?) web-based email account may be easier than you think.
Hacking into somebody's (your?) web-based email account may be easier than you think.
Core Email Etiquette Rules
Avoid the pitfalls of email, and communicate better by following these core rules of email etiquette.
Avoid the pitfalls of email, and communicate better by following these core rules of email etiquette.
Top Disposable Email Addresses
If you give Web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases. Disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.
If you give Web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases. Disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.
Free Spam Filters for Windows
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Get Gmail in Any Email Client
Use all the power of your desktop email client with your Gmail account by downloading messages via regular POP access. You can still have all your Gmail archived and searchable on the web or delete retrieved mail automatically.
Use all the power of your desktop email client with your Gmail account by downloading messages via regular POP access. You can still have all your Gmail archived and searchable on the web or delete retrieved mail automatically.
Email - QuickTips
An index of QuickTips for the Email guide site.
An index of QuickTips for the Email guide site.
Top Windows RSS Feed Readers
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are my top picks for reading news on Windows.
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are my top picks for reading news on Windows.
Yahoo! Mail - Free Email
Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web with unlimited storage and RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot.
Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web with unlimited storage and RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot.
Get Gmail in Mac OS X Mail
Doubly elegant: Gmail and Mac OS X Mail work together blissfully. Here's how to set up Mac OS X Mail to receive mail from your Gmail account and send through it.
Doubly elegant: Gmail and Mac OS X Mail work together blissfully. Here's how to set up Mac OS X Mail to receive mail from your Gmail account and send through it.
Export Mail from IncrediMail
Switch from IncrediMail to another email client and take your messages with you. Here's how to import mail from IncrediMail into Outlook Express, for example.
Switch from IncrediMail to another email client and take your messages with you. Here's how to import mail from IncrediMail into Outlook Express, for example.
Identify Your OE Folder
Locate the folder on your hard disk where Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express keeps your email messages, so you can back them up easily.
Locate the folder on your hard disk where Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express keeps your email messages, so you can back them up easily.
Free Windows RSS Feed Readers
RSS feed readers offer one of the most efficient ways to follow news, web site and software updates, newsletters, blogs and more. Many of the best news aggregators for Windows are available for free. Find them reviewed here.
RSS feed readers offer one of the most efficient ways to follow news, web site and software updates, newsletters, blogs and more. Many of the best news aggregators for Windows are available for free. Find them reviewed here.
Most Popular Email Tips
Learn something new about spam, find clever tricks for your email program or service and discover amazing secrets. Here are the ten most popular email tips.
Learn something new about spam, find clever tricks for your email program or service and discover amazing secrets. Here are the ten most popular email tips.
MacFreePOPs Reviewed
MacFreePOPs makes it easy to run FreePOPs on a Mac and access web-based email services such as Windows Live Hotmail in desktop email programs such as Mac OS X Mail. (Mac)
MacFreePOPs makes it easy to run FreePOPs on a Mac and access web-based email services such as Windows Live Hotmail in desktop email programs such as Mac OS X Mail. (Mac)
Office Outlook Connector
Office Outlook Connector plugs Windows Live Hotmail and Office Live Mail accounts so well into Outlook that they behave much like local mail — and you can use them offline, too. (Windows)
Office Outlook Connector plugs Windows Live Hotmail and Office Live Mail accounts so well into Outlook that they behave much like local mail — and you can use them offline, too. (Windows)
Send an Anonymous Email
Do you want to send an email but make sure nobody knows it was you who sent it? Here's how to send a message anonymously.
Do you want to send an email but make sure nobody knows it was you who sent it? Here's how to send a message anonymously.
Outlook Express: Out of Office
Not at the office? Away from all computers? Email without reach? While you enjoy the time, Windows Mail or Outlook Express can dutifully and automatically reply to incoming emails, letting people know when you'll be back to respond in person.
Not at the office? Away from all computers? Email without reach? While you enjoy the time, Windows Mail or Outlook Express can dutifully and automatically reply to incoming emails, letting people know when you'll be back to respond in person.
A to G: OS X Contacts to Gmail
A to G converts your Mac OS X Address Book to a CSV file, used by many email clients to import contacts, in a most simple and useful manner. (Mac)
A to G converts your Mac OS X Address Book to a CSV file, used by many email clients to import contacts, in a most simple and useful manner. (Mac)
Yahoo! Mail in any Mail Client
Send and receive Yahoo! Mail with Outlook Express, Eudora, or another email program.
Send and receive Yahoo! Mail with Outlook Express, Eudora, or another email program.
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What is "mailto"?
What is "mailto"?
Fwd. Yahoo! Mail to Any Email
Receive all your Yahoo! Mail messages at another email address.
Receive all your Yahoo! Mail messages at another email address.
Gmail IMAP Access
Gmail IMAP provides seamless access to all your Gmail messages in any email program or mobile device and makes your labels appear as folders, too.
Gmail IMAP provides seamless access to all your Gmail messages in any email program or mobile device and makes your labels appear as folders, too.
Back Up OE Address Book
Make sure you never lose your important Outlook Express contacts.
Make sure you never lose your important Outlook Express contacts.
NewzCrawler
NewzCrawler is a fantastic RSS feed reader with a highly usable interface and tons of useful features and gimmicks. (Windows)
NewzCrawler is a fantastic RSS feed reader with a highly usable interface and tons of useful features and gimmicks. (Windows)
Yahoo! Mail as Email Default
When you click an email link or try to send a file from Word, for example, an obscure email program comes up while you would much rather use Yahoo! Mail (which you always use)? Here's how to set up Yahoo! Mail as your default email program in Windows for occasions like these.
When you click an email link or try to send a file from Word, for example, an obscure email program comes up while you would much rather use Yahoo! Mail (which you always use)? Here's how to set up Yahoo! Mail as your default email program in Windows for occasions like these.
Free Gmail in Outlook
Outlook and Gmail make a great couple; they send each other messages all day long. Here's how to set up access to a Gmail account in Outlook, and it is terrifically easy.
Outlook and Gmail make a great couple; they send each other messages all day long. Here's how to set up access to a Gmail account in Outlook, and it is terrifically easy.
Windows Live Mail + Gmail
Windows Live Mail is great for reading and sending mail in your Gmail account. Good thing setting up Gmail in Windows Live Mail is so easy, too.
Windows Live Mail is great for reading and sending mail in your Gmail account. Good thing setting up Gmail in Windows Live Mail is so easy, too.
Yahoo! Mail POP and IMAP
Download incoming Yahoo! Mail email to any email program or access all your Yahoo! Mail folders transparently. Both is easy and elegant with IzyMail.
Download incoming Yahoo! Mail email to any email program or access all your Yahoo! Mail folders transparently. Both is easy and elegant with IzyMail.
Elements of a Mailto: URL
You can specify default Subjects, body text and more in email links. Here's how to specify a default for almost any message part of mail sent via a mailto: link.
You can specify default Subjects, body text and more in email links. Here's how to specify a default for almost any message part of mail sent via a mailto: link.
Favorite 4th of July E-Cards
You can't send fireworks over email — fortunately. You can't send corn on the cob over email — unfortunately. You can send images of those and all your best Independence Day greetings with fabulous e-cards, however. Here are some of my favorite 4th of July e-card sites.
You can't send fireworks over email — fortunately. You can't send corn on the cob over email — unfortunately. You can send images of those and all your best Independence Day greetings with fabulous e-cards, however. Here are some of my favorite 4th of July e-card sites.
Outlook: Import Contacts
You extensive list of contacts or customers is stored happily in a spread sheet or database? After some simple importation steps, they can be in Outlook, too, and build the basis for a mailing list, for example.
You extensive list of contacts or customers is stored happily in a spread sheet or database? After some simple importation steps, they can be in Outlook, too, and build the basis for a mailing list, for example.
Top Big File Mailing Services
You can send any file as an attachment to anybody via email. Any file? Yes, as long as it meets the size restrictions of your email provider. If you have wrestled in frustration with transferring large files, try these services and tools that make sending GB-large files via email not only convenient and easy but also fast and secure. Here are my top picks.
You can send any file as an attachment to anybody via email. Any file? Yes, as long as it meets the size restrictions of your email provider. If you have wrestled in frustration with transferring large files, try these services and tools that make sending GB-large files via email not only convenient and easy but also fast and secure. Here are my top picks.
Thunderbird: Export Mail to OE
Migrate all your mail from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook Express, from where you can further export it to other email programs, if necessary.
Migrate all your mail from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook Express, from where you can further export it to other email programs, if necessary.
Easy and Foolproof Mailto URLs
Encoding mailto URLs correctly with %20 and %A0 and what not is a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, JavaScript helps out.
Encoding mailto URLs correctly with %20 and %A0 and what not is a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, JavaScript helps out.
IncrediConvert IM Export Tool
IncrediConvert lets you get your messages (including attachments) out of IncrediMail into other email clients by converting them to EML files in a rush. (Windows)
IncrediConvert lets you get your messages (including attachments) out of IncrediMail into other email clients by converting them to EML files in a rush. (Windows)
Access AOL Email in OE
Read, send and manage your AOL email with all the comfort and power of Outlook Express.
Read, send and manage your AOL email with all the comfort and power of Outlook Express.
Gawab.com - Free Email Service
Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 2 GB online space, POP access and many a web-based goodie.
Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 2 GB online space, POP access and many a web-based goodie.
Where Outlook Stores Mail
Find the directory where Outlook keeps all your precious data.
Find the directory where Outlook keeps all your precious data.
Top Mac RSS News Feed Readers
RSS feeds are an excellent way to keep up to date with information sources. An RSS feed reader will check subscribed channels for updates automatically and let you browse the news that's important to you. Here are my top picks of news aggregators for Mac users.
RSS feeds are an excellent way to keep up to date with information sources. An RSS feed reader will check subscribed channels for updates automatically and let you browse the news that's important to you. Here are my top picks of news aggregators for Mac users.
Zenbe - Free Email Service
Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too.
Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too.
Export Contacts from Hotmail
Are your contacts trapped in Hotmail, and do you have to type them all anew if you need them anywhere else? Not if you export them smartly using a print view and your spreadsheets program. Here's how.
Are your contacts trapped in Hotmail, and do you have to type them all anew if you need them anywhere else? Not if you export them smartly using a print view and your spreadsheets program. Here's how.
IncrediMail XE Reviewed
IncrediMail is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send while protecting you from spam, phishing and fraud attempts in a convenient manner. (Windows)
IncrediMail is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send while protecting you from spam, phishing and fraud attempts in a convenient manner. (Windows)
Outlook Ex.: Compact Messages?
When Outlook Express claims it can "free up disk space" by "compacting messages", let it get away with such vague language. The process is good and essential. Let Outlook Express compact your folders now and then.
When Outlook Express claims it can "free up disk space" by "compacting messages", let it get away with such vague language. The process is good and essential. Let Outlook Express compact your folders now and then.
Eudora Reviewed
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that cans spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness. (Windows, Mac)
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that cans spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness. (Windows, Mac)
Yahoo! Mail Mailing Lists
Set up a distribution list in Yahoo! Mail to send emails to a number of people at the same time easily.
Set up a distribution list in Yahoo! Mail to send emails to a number of people at the same time easily.
mail2web Reviewed
mail2web provides secure and anonymous access to your POP or IMAP account from any web browser or hand-held device.
mail2web provides secure and anonymous access to your POP or IMAP account from any web browser or hand-held device.
Back Up / Copy Outlook Express
Trusting your computer is good, but regular backups are much better. They help you avoid losing any of your important emails. Here's how to create a backup copy of all your Outlook Express folders and messages easily.
Trusting your computer is good, but regular backups are much better. They help you avoid losing any of your important emails. Here's how to create a backup copy of all your Outlook Express folders and messages easily.
Windows Mail Reviewed
Windows Mail is a fun and functional email program that keeps you relatively safe with spam and phishing filters while offering fast search and enough room for creativity, maybe based on ready-made stationery. (Windows)
Windows Mail is a fun and functional email program that keeps you relatively safe with spam and phishing filters while offering fast search and enough room for creativity, maybe based on ready-made stationery. (Windows)
Do Your Email Tomorrow
If you have more than a day's worth of emails in your Inbox, the "deal with every message the moment it arrives"-approach is not working for you. It's not your fault, but you can fix it. Even get rid of all your email backlog!
If you have more than a day's worth of emails in your Inbox, the "deal with every message the moment it arrives"-approach is not working for you. It's not your fault, but you can fix it. Even get rid of all your email backlog!
Mac OS X Mail Reviewed
Mail is the solid, powerful and easy to use email program built into Mac OS X. While Mail's smart spam filter gets rid of practically all junk mail, the astonishingly fast and precise search and smart folders make finding and managing good mail a snap. (Mac)
Mail is the solid, powerful and easy to use email program built into Mac OS X. While Mail's smart spam filter gets rid of practically all junk mail, the astonishingly fast and precise search and smart folders make finding and managing good mail a snap. (Mac)
Yahoo! Mail in Mac OS X Mail
Web-based or desktop email? It's great to have the choice, and with Yahoo! Mail, IzyMail and Mac OS X Mail you do have the choice. Here's how to set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Mail.
Web-based or desktop email? It's great to have the choice, and with Yahoo! Mail, IzyMail and Mac OS X Mail you do have the choice. Here's how to set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Mail.
Gmail: Mail, Attachment Size
Gmail lets you send and receive messages (and attached files) only to a certain size. Find out how to get your files to the desired destination nevertheless.
Gmail lets you send and receive messages (and attached files) only to a certain size. Find out how to get your files to the desired destination nevertheless.
Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail
Would you like to receive your Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail? With YPOPs!, you can.
Would you like to receive your Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail? With YPOPs!, you can.
Block a Sender in Hotmail
Here's how to add any email address you like (or don't like, rather) to your black list of blocked senders in Windows Live Hotmail "manually".
Here's how to add any email address you like (or don't like, rather) to your black list of blocked senders in Windows Live Hotmail "manually".
PHP: Use a Remote SMTP Server
Send emails from your PHP scripts without a local mail server installed.
Send emails from your PHP scripts without a local mail server installed.
Trace the Origin of Spam
Want to know where all the junk mail is really coming from? Find out how the source of spam can be determined using an email's header lines.
Want to know where all the junk mail is really coming from? Find out how the source of spam can be determined using an email's header lines.
Block a Sender in Yahoo! Mail
Start a Yahoo! Mail email boycott.
Start a Yahoo! Mail email boycott.
Windows Mail Signature Image
Here's how you can add an image or an animation to your signature at the bottom of every message you send with Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Here's how you can add an image or an animation to your signature at the bottom of every message you send with Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Export Outlook Contacts
Keep your contacts even if you leave Outlook behind. If you save your Outlook contacts as a CSV file, you can easily import them elsewhere.
Keep your contacts even if you leave Outlook behind. If you save your Outlook contacts as a CSV file, you can easily import them elsewhere.
Reinstall Outlook Express
If your Outlook Express is showing slow, stubborn, stuck and strange behavior, a fresh start can help. Here's how to re-install Outlook Express even if the installer won't let you.
If your Outlook Express is showing slow, stubborn, stuck and strange behavior, a fresh start can help. Here's how to re-install Outlook Express even if the installer won't let you.
Forward Gmail
Have Gmail forward incoming messages to any email address automatically to read them at your old email account in your old email program, for example. You can even make Gmail keep an archived copy of forwarded mail for search.
Have Gmail forward incoming messages to any email address automatically to read them at your old email account in your old email program, for example. You can even make Gmail keep an archived copy of forwarded mail for search.
Change Your Hotmail Password
Make sure your Windows Live Hotmail messages are accessible only to you.
Make sure your Windows Live Hotmail messages are accessible only to you.
Windows Live Hotmail in Mail
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.
Google Reader Reviewed
Google Reader is a decidedly simple yet very usable and, thanks to a flexible labeling system, quite comprehensive web-based RSS feed reader.
Google Reader is a decidedly simple yet very usable and, thanks to a flexible labeling system, quite comprehensive web-based RSS feed reader.
Import Addresses into Gmail
Your friends have not left you when you started using Gmail? Good, and now you can keep their contact info, too, by importing it from another email program or service.
Your friends have not left you when you started using Gmail? Good, and now you can keep their contact info, too, by importing it from another email program or service.
OE: Create a Signature
Email signatures can contain essential contact info, a witty quote or deep insight. Here's how to set up your signature in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Email signatures can contain essential contact info, a witty quote or deep insight. Here's how to set up your signature in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Hotmail Attachment Size Limit
You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.
You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.
Minimize Outlook to the Tray
Keep Outlook readily accessible while minimizing both its window and the space it consumes on the screen.
Keep Outlook readily accessible while minimizing both its window and the space it consumes on the screen.
SMTP Inside Out
Have you ever wondered what happens when you click "Send"? Find out how SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, makes emails reach their destinations.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you click "Send"? Find out how SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, makes emails reach their destinations.
Email Address: Case Sensitive?
Does it matter whether you type ReCipiENt@eXaMPle.cOm or recipient@example.com? Find out here, and learn what you should take to heart when creating a new email address.
Does it matter whether you type ReCipiENt@eXaMPle.cOm or recipient@example.com? Find out here, and learn what you should take to heart when creating a new email address.
Send a Form via Email
Find out how to send forms via email.
Find out how to send forms via email.
Bcc Defined
A blind carbon copy (Bcc) is a way to send an email message without revealing the recipient's address.
A blind carbon copy (Bcc) is a way to send an email message without revealing the recipient's address.
Thunderbird Profile Backup
Copy all your Mozilla Thunderbird data (emails, contacts, settings, filters, junk mail training data and more) to a new computer, different partition or backup location.
Copy all your Mozilla Thunderbird data (emails, contacts, settings, filters, junk mail training data and more) to a new computer, different partition or backup location.
Favorite Birthday E-Card Sites
Honor the days on which special people in your life were born. Do something creative and unexpected, and send an e-card maybe. Which, of course, can be very unexpectedly creative!
Honor the days on which special people in your life were born. Do something creative and unexpected, and send an e-card maybe. Which, of course, can be very unexpectedly creative!
Opera Reviewed
The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. (Windows)
The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. (Windows)
Incredimail Backup PRO
Incredimail Backup PRO not only backs up and restores your entire IncrediMail installation, you can also export messages to EML files, ready to be imported into Windows Mail or other email programs, and undelete deleted mail. (Windows)
Incredimail Backup PRO not only backs up and restores your entire IncrediMail installation, you can also export messages to EML files, ready to be imported into Windows Mail or other email programs, and undelete deleted mail. (Windows)
Mail.com Reviewed
Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security, convenience and storage of other web-based email services.
Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security, convenience and storage of other web-based email services.
Zapak Mail - Free Email
Zapak Mail is a bare-bones free email service with unlimited storage and POP access to boot.
Zapak Mail is a bare-bones free email service with unlimited storage and POP access to boot.
Find Your Thunderbird Profile
Locate the folder that contains your Mozilla Thunderbird messages, filters, settings and more.
Locate the folder that contains your Mozilla Thunderbird messages, filters, settings and more.
Access Gmail in Thunderbird 1
When Mozilla Thunderbird spreads its wings and Gmail opens its doors, you can create an account in Mozilla Thunderbird to send and receive Gmail messages.
When Mozilla Thunderbird spreads its wings and Gmail opens its doors, you can create an account in Mozilla Thunderbird to send and receive Gmail messages.
Make Outlook the Email Default
Use Outlook for all your email tasks automatically.
Use Outlook for all your email tasks automatically.
BigString.com - Free Email
BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.
BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.
How to Contact Hotmail Support
Can't log in to your Windows Live Hotmail or Hotmail account? Plagued by a glitch that prevents you from composing messages? Here's how to contact Windows Live Hotmail tech support for help.
Can't log in to your Windows Live Hotmail or Hotmail account? Plagued by a glitch that prevents you from composing messages? Here's how to contact Windows Live Hotmail tech support for help.
Access Gmail in iPhone Mail
You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.
You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.
Set Up Your Yahoo! Signature
Time to practice your signature. Oh, no, wait! Yahoo! Mail does that for you.
Time to practice your signature. Oh, no, wait! Yahoo! Mail does that for you.
Hotmail: See Full Mail Headers
See all the header lines in Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail to trace spam, for info, or for fun.
See all the header lines in Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail to trace spam, for info, or for fun.
Mailto URL Encoder - About Email
Mailto URL Encoder The mailto URL encoder does the dirty work of composing perfect and perfectly encoded
Mailto URL Encoder The mailto URL encoder does the dirty work of composing perfect and perfectly encoded
OL: Graphic Signature
Make the signature appended to your emails in Outlook a richer experience by adding graphics, animations and logos.
Make the signature appended to your emails in Outlook a richer experience by adding graphics, animations and logos.
MSN Hotmail Screenshot - About Email
What does MSN Hotmail look like?
What does MSN Hotmail look like?
Export Yahoo! Mail Addresses
Want to keep your contacts when you leave Yahoo! Mail or simply share your Yahoo! Mail address book with another email program? Here's how to save Yahoo! Mail contacts to a CSV file to be imported easily elsewhere.
Want to keep your contacts when you leave Yahoo! Mail or simply share your Yahoo! Mail address book with another email program? Here's how to save Yahoo! Mail contacts to a CSV file to be imported easily elsewhere.
HotPOP - Free POP3 Email
HotPOP offers free, reliable email accounts you can use with any email program using POP3 and SMTP.
HotPOP offers free, reliable email accounts you can use with any email program using POP3 and SMTP.
Outlook Express Reviewed
Outlook Express is a simple, easy to use and friendly email program that gets the job done while protecting your privacy and security. (Windows)
Outlook Express is a simple, easy to use and friendly email program that gets the job done while protecting your privacy and security. (Windows)
Close Your AIM Mail Account
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
4th of July 1776 Stationery
Celebrate the declaration of independence, an icon of freedom appealing strongly to self-determination, with an email. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Celebrate the declaration of independence, an icon of freedom appealing strongly to self-determination, with an email. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Restore Outlook Backups
Recover messages, your address book, calendar, and other essential Outlook data from a backup copy.
Recover messages, your address book, calendar, and other essential Outlook data from a backup copy.
Access AOL Email in Outlook
Type "imap.aol.com" under "Incoming mail server (IMAP):".
Type "imap.aol.com" under "Incoming mail server (IMAP):".
Find Friends on soc.net-people
If all other means to find somebody's email address fail, you can turn to the Usenet newsgroup soc.net-people.
If all other means to find somebody's email address fail, you can turn to the Usenet newsgroup soc.net-people.
Make Hotmail the Email Default
Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.
Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.
Back Up IncrediMail
Saving a backup copy of your IncrediMail messages, contacts, settings, and more is incredibly easy.
Saving a backup copy of your IncrediMail messages, contacts, settings, and more is incredibly easy.
Outlook: To Undisclosed Recip.
If you want to send an email to a group of people but keep their email addresses hidden, send it to "Undisclosed recipients" in Outlook.
If you want to send an email to a group of people but keep their email addresses hidden, send it to "Undisclosed recipients" in Outlook.
OE: To Undisclosed Recipients
When you send an email to a group of recipients, would you rather not have everybody be able to see all the other people's names and addresses? Here's how easily that is accomplished in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
When you send an email to a group of recipients, would you rather not have everybody be able to see all the other people's names and addresses? Here's how easily that is accomplished in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Rich Formatting in Your OE Sig
If you use fancy formatting in your emails, the signature does not have to pale beside it. Here's how to use HTML to create just as fancy signatures in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
If you use fancy formatting in your emails, the signature does not have to pale beside it. Here's how to use HTML to create just as fancy signatures in Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Most Popular Free Stationery
If email starts to get boring, it's time for new colorful Outlook Express stationery. Or silent and thoughtful stationery. Or lovely and heartwarming stationery. Here are the picks of the picks, the best of the best, here's the stationery that has been downloaded most often.
If email starts to get boring, it's time for new colorful Outlook Express stationery. Or silent and thoughtful stationery. Or lovely and heartwarming stationery. Here are the picks of the picks, the best of the best, here's the stationery that has been downloaded most often.