This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

Most people will see the title of this article and think "Um… forwarding an e-mail is like the easiest thing in the world. How could you possibly do it wrong?" Trust me there’s a right way and a wrong way. I am very much against anyone forwarding me jokes and/or chain letters in e-mail. However there are some people you will make exceptions...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the oldest free e-mail providers on the internet. It was originally launched on October 8 1997, and to date has one of the largest userbases in the world. Getting Started With Your Seal On the...

Spam control is a necessity if you use e-mail which the vast majority of us do. And although PCMech has covered spam control with several articles on the subject, the methods change from year to year – so consider this an update for the 2008-2009 era of e-mail. Client Side With e-mail clients you have free and paid options but I concentrate on the freebies...

GMX is "Global Mail Exchange", found at www.gmx.com. This is a free e-mail service chock full of features and goodies that, said honestly, surprised me at how good it is. A few of the features:Ability to choose an address ending in gmx.com, gmx.us or gmx.co.uk. Can import mail over from several popular e-mail services including Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail,...

One of the very few e-mail signatures that I don’t consider a complete waste of space is ASCII art. This is because getting a signature where letters form a picture or cartoon-like figure is not easy and difficult to get right. If old-school ASCII is your thing, there is a Java application (runs on any OS that supports Java such as Windows/OS X/Linux)...

In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago. In this installment we’ll be taking a look at something called...

A really, really long time ago, people accessed their e-mail using text-based clients. One popular (said loosely) client was PINE. When I say text-based, I mean text-based. No GUI. No JavaScript. No images. No formatted fonts. No HTML. Nothing but text. There are a smattering of people on the internet that to this day swear by PINE and absolutely will not use...

In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago. In this installment we’ll be taking a look at e-mail. ~ ~ ~ The first...

In both Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail (but not Gmail) there is the option of using a "Blocked sender" list. In Hotmail: Options Panel / Safe and blocked senders In Yahoo! Mail: Options Panel / Block addresses What is a Blocked list? It’s a friendly term for a blacklist. More than likely you were already aware of this feature but there are more than a...

Everyone’s heard tips on how to manage e-mail, deal with spam and so on – so here are a few other bits of info to help make your e-mail more manageable. Forwarded e-mail sometimes has a tendency to bypass spam filters You’ve been a good e-mail user but for whatever reason there are still spams that get thru to your inbox, even though...

Whenever you take a photo with a digital camera the resulting JPEG file is obviously quite large both in dimensions and file size. Many people like to send photos as file attachments in e-mail. While it’s true most e-mail services will auto-resize photos for you (like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail), the rest do not. The Online Image Resizer at...

For users of Windows Live Hotmail you may have noticed that for some (but not all) forwarded e-mails and newsletters that contain images show these images as nothing but little gray boxes. In particular, this gray box: http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w3/pr01/ltr/i_safe.gif This is a relatively new issue that seems to have sprouted up with Hotmail. There is no...

If you happen to be a Gmail user you probably noticed (as if you couldn’t) that the mail was down recently. Was it your fault? Of course not. It was Google’s fault. Regular readers know that I (Rich, not Dave) don’t exactly have a fondness for Gmail due to its beta-riffic way of working – correction – not working in this...

In this tutorial I will instruct you how to get a you@your_domain.com e-mail address for $15 a year. There are no catches, no strings attached, no nonsense. You can get reliable domain-style e-mail this cheap and you don’t even need a web host. The steps below will instruct you how to do this. [hidepost=1] Everyone has heard of Hotmail and Gmail. Both of...

ComputerWorld reports that MobileMe users (Apple’s replacement to .Mac) were quite upset due to the fact the e-mail service had a four-day outage. In the world of e-mail, days can seem like years and this is especially true for mobile users who send tons of e-mail. To the best of my knowledge I have never known any e-mail service to be down for 4 days in a...

I send and receive quite a few e-mails. Years ago I used to have quite a hefty e-mail sig on every one of my e-mails that looked something like this: [First Name Last Name here] E-Mail: [e-mail address here] AIM: [AIM screen name here] Phone: [phone number here] Web Site: [web address here] This original sig was 5 lines long. And to the best of my...