So, you’re going on vacation? Gonna be away from your computer for a while? If you’d like, you could always email every single one of your contacts to let them know where you’re going to be, and for how long. Alternatively, you could simply set up an auto-responder. How it works is pretty simple: Someone emails you, and the client responds back...

When most people hear "flag" concerning email, they mistakenly think that means "mark as spam" all the time, and that’s incorrect. Email flagging has been around more or less for as long as email has existed. It’s a special mark you can place on any message so that you can quickly retrieve it later. Small example: An email comes...

Every time I think I have the email-signature-with-image thing licked in Windows Live Mail 2011, a new problem sprouts up. This time around it’s the fact that per my last video on the subject, the auto-add of an image into an email signature adds a very annoying “cool effect”, that being a drop shadow. This time around, I instruct how to get...

The problem with email is that even if you’re careful, your account might fall victim to hackers. They employ some rather creative methods in order to steal information. Recently, a relative of mine had their email ‘taken over’ by malicious outsiders. They didn’t really do all that much – mostly just used it to send everyone a false...

I’ll say up front that none of what you’ll read below pertains to major-provider webmail users such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, GMX and so on. What I’m talking about here are those that still use personal-domain-based, company-based or ISP-based addresses that have overzealous anti-spam crapola in effect. 1. Forcing proof of who...

The IMAP mail protocol is something that most people have a love/hate relationship with for those that use it. The love comes from that you can sync mail between PCs and mobile devices easily, and the hate from that IMAP is notoriously "moody" for lack of a better term. Part of the reason IMAP sometimes has problems with synchronization is because...

Most of us don’t give a second thought about browsing with JavaScript completely turned off. For those of you out there who are very anti-JavaScript, you’re probably using NoScript for selective enabling/disabling of JS based on what site you’re using. I wanted to see however which webmail would work with no JS enabled whatsoever. Why do this?...

This is a follow-up to this article, where I said there are many ways of "syncing" a POP account, and this is another way of going about it using a separate Hotmail account. Requirements:An email client with auto-blind-carbon-copy, a.k.a. auto-bcc capability (such as Mozilla Thunderbird, nPOPuk, Sylpheed, etc.) A Hotmail account (if already using a...

Yes, I know, there’s no such thing as true synchronization when it comes to POP email accounts, but this is the next best thing. Not everyone uses webmail, and many still use POP. Some use POP because they have no other choice, such as a business or ISP-based email account; others simply can’t stand webmail or IMAP and go the POP route because...

At best, the maximum file size attachment for email is 30MB and at worst 5MB. Yes, believe it or not, there are still little mom-and-pop ISPs that do not allow over 5MB file attachments in email. But even if you and the people you routinely send mail to can accept 30MB file attachments, should you? The answer depends on what you’re trying to send. This...

A problem that quite a few people deal with routinely are webmail servers where the outbound filter is overly aggressive. Outbound mail is either deferred or the system prompts you "enter this code to continue" crapola just to send mail. Either way, it’s very annoying. Here’s an example of how this problem manifests itself: Let’s say...

"Inbox Zero" is a guideline that translates to "at the end of the day, you should have zero emails in your inbox". Doing this is supposed to make your email more manageable and therefore allow you to manage your time better. One rethought approach to email that’s appeared recently is the 10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral....

Email is still the preferred way of online communication for many, but there are certain things you simply do not need to send via that method any longer. 1. Video Nobody wants an AVI, MPG or WMV in an email. It’s usually a huge file, takes a while to download and sometimes crashes mail clients for those that use them. What you should be doing is posting...

If you could use your email in a decidedly “computery” way, would you do it? Would you trade the way modern email looks and feels for something old-school? Below is a video showing modern email in a web browser (something everyone is familiar with), and the Alpine email client; something very old-school but still works with any POP or IMAP account...

When it comes to email, whether you use an online provider (i.e. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) or a traditional POP client, storage is virtually unlimited. With this being the case, many believe you have no reason to ever delete an email. While I can certainly understand the logic, I have rethought this over the past few months and I now ask myself a couple of...

The reason why anyone would want to abandon an account is simply because they cannot delete it. It’s becoming common (and rather annoying) that while it’s oh-so easy to sign up for something, it’s either next to impossible or flat-out impossible to delete the account. Why would you want to delete an account? People have varying reasons, but the...

By and large, people still use signatures in emails, as in the little blurb of text at the tail of every message sent. When it comes to signatures, it’s all too easy to have them grow too large. Originally it was just your name and email address, which was 1 or 2 lines depending on how you had it set up. Over time it can grow to 5 lines or greater from all...

A standard spam deterrent that several major webmail providers utilize is deferred mail. What this means is that your email on send is purposely delayed from 5 minutes up to several hours. For example, you know Yahoo! Mail’s deferment is in effect when you receive an error 451. It’s most likely true you weren’t doing anything different than...

One of the last bastions of purity concerning job security was the US Postal Service. Working for the USPS was in a way like working for the state govt., federal govt. or the military in the respect that employees stayed there (usually happily) for decades. Well, you can scratch the USPS off the job security list as they’re cutting out 7,500 jobs, which...

There are several ways in which one can create and quickly use a disposable email address. Plus addressing Plus addressing is where you append a plus (+) to your email username and add other characters of your choice. If for example your email address is example@gmail.com, you can use example+MadeUpName@gmail.com and it will work. Aliases Hotmail offers this...