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...

I really like it when larger web companies actually use the high-valued domains they own instead of letting them sit there and do nothing. For example, when Microsoft allowed people to get live.com email addresses, that was great. Short, memorable, easy. AOL’s new Project Phoenix gets off to a great start by offering love.com email addresses. Yes, free....

Most of you out there simply know spam filters as that off-again/on-again thing that seems to only work when it wants to, regardless of which email you use. Have you ever wondered how mail servers determine spam? This video will show you.

Email by its very nature is completely insecure. I’m not talking about the email systems like Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail that all have secure logins, I’m talking about the emails themselves. When an email message is transmitted over the internet, there are any number of ways it can be intercepted. Should you be worried about this? No, because your...

Chances are you’ve received spam that somehow found its way into your inbox, and nowhere in the email does your email address appear in To, Cc or Bcc. You can use this to your advantage to slow spam by specifically requiring your email address to be in To, Cc or Bcc to be delivered to your inbox. Important note before continuing: This method does have...

I tend to shy away from writing about Windows XP because it’s woefully old at this point. However I do understand a lot of you out there have made the decision to stay with XP for a few more years. You’ve weighed the pros and cons, don’t see any real need to upgrade to Windows 7 and figure you’ll wait until getting another computer before...

When I last wrote about Mozilla Thunderbird 3 ten months ago, I wasn’t too pleased with what Mozilla delivered. Judging from the comments on that article, a whole bunch of other people had problems aplenty when TB hit the big version 3, stemming from the program itself and not what OS it was running on. Thunderbird is now at version 3.1.6, A lot of things...

In years past it was common advice to simply delete older emails to save hard drive space and make what you have easier to manage. Today we’re (correctly) told never to delete email unless it’s spam. We have many gigabytes of space on our local hard drives, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail have unlimited storage, and Gmail at the time of this writing...

Email is nothing but plain text. There is nothing about it that needs to be "decoded" in any way unless the way it’s stored isn’t in a plain text fashion (like an Outlook OST/PST file). Over time you may have had to change email addresses, and as such had to forward messages from your old address to your new one. When that happens, the date...