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...

Gmail has an inbuilt security measure in the system where if you appear to be sending too many emails in a specific span of time, you’re purposely blocked from sending any more email for a few hours and will receive the notice you’ve “reached a limit” for sending email. But what if you don’t send a lot of email and receive this...

With the upcoming reality of Gmail having graphical ads (meaning images in ads instead of just text), some of you out there are interested in making the switch to using a mail client instead of a browser. While true you could use any modern mail client, Mozilla Thunderbird is a good choice because it works in Windows, Mac and Linux and has a rock-solid...

To all you Gmail users out there, life is going to get slightly more annoying as Google will be introducing graphic-based ads in the near future. But why? The answer to this one is simple. Text-based ads simply don’t command enough attention. And since Google’s core business is search, ads and apps, the ads need to make money. When they don’t,...

Gmail now has a new feature called Background Send, available as a Gmail Labs feature. What this does is save valuable precious seconds of your life. Everybody knows that waiting 2 seconds for an email to send is just too darned long and promotes bad habits. In those two seconds, you could have picked your nose. Or clicked your clicky pen. Or pondered,...

In case you didn’t hear, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 Gmail users lost every single mail they ever had yesterday, then today was restored from tape backup. In the grand scheme of things this is a very small portion of the Gmail userbase, but if you were one of the Gmail users that lost all your mail temporarily, even a day’s worth of...

Social Media giant Facebook is set to unleash the proverbial “dogs of war” on G-Mail tomorrow by announcing its own rival e-mail service to its over 500 million members. Facebook members can already chat and send private messages on the site – this branch out to external email is not a simple task, but a logical one. The company has been noted to have...

A really nice feature of Gmail is that it allows you to send outgoing message through their servers with the sent messages showing up in your Gmail account. To leverage this functionality, one person has written a VB Script file which easily sends mail through Gmail using your account. This VB Script file can be invoked from the command line to accomplish a...

Email from Hotmail or Gmail can be searched in a very similar fashion to the way you can search the web. All it takes is knowing the correct operators to use. Why is using operators better? Using operators directly on first search allows you to skip several steps to get to the same result. Instead of having to perform a generic search, you can target a specific...

If you prefer to use an email client but your mail server’s spam filters aren’t doing a good job, you can use Gmail as a go-between for better spam filtration. Step 1. Get a Gmail account. Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/signup and sign up your free Gmail account. Step 2. Configure Gmail to download your existing POP3 email. Instructions on how to...

A few weeks ago, Google began rolling out a feature which allows you to be logged into more than one Google account at the same time without using any incognito browser hanky-panky. As a person who has more than one Google account, this is pretty handy. I used to, instead, just use different browsers when I wanted to check another account. For example, I’d...

Something Gmail just introduced is the ability to add a rich text signature to your outgoing emails.. even though every other email on the planet has had this feature forever. Better late than never, I suppose.If you use Gfail Gmail, try it out for yourself by going to Settings then choose the General tab; your signature options will be...

The different between junk (as in spam) and somewhat-junk are the emails you get that are legitimate that you may consider wasteful. Here are a few examples of somewhat-junk mail:Confirmation of email address message when you sign up for a new web service Cancellation notice when you discontinue a web service “You’ve got money!” emails from...

If your browser of choice is Internet Explorer 8 and you use Gmail as your email client, it makes sense to integrate the two. Using the Gmail Accelerator, a new option is added when you right click on links and/or highlighted text which reads “Send to Gmail”. This function does exactly what you would expect:Creates a new Gmail message Sets the...

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message. Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail...

Many of us use Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as our primary e-mail service. Many of us also use Firefox as our primary web browser. When you click an e-mail in Firefox, the default mail application loads, which in Windows could be Outlook Express 6 or Windows Live Mail. In OS X it would be Apple Mail and in Linux it would be Evolution (usually). Changing this behavior so...

Gmail users utilizing the web interface who would like to give their interface a new look each day should play around with the Themes available in the settings. While this is not a new feature of Gmail, applying a theme other than one of the simple “color only” ones usually changes quite regularly. For example, I am currently using the Planets theme...

For whatever reason, RSS feeds just refuse to die. I think this is because they’re found renewed life on other mediums such as mobile platforms (it is very small data that would be perfect for that platform). On the PC side, I personally believe one of the best use of feeds is when they can be delivered to your e-mail easily. This video will show you how...

When it comes to webmail, be it Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, we don’t ask for much. Truly. All we want is the ability to send an receive messages with minimal fuss. Many don’t even bother using the built-in address book or calendar features because as long as the mail keeps flowing, that’s what matters. Being that mail flow is the most...

If there were any indication that email still matters, it’s that major webmail providers continue to routinely develop their respective services. Both Google with Gmail and Microsoft with Hotmail have been striving to provide a better user experience to keep users happy. Hotmail Hotmail’s biggest to-do recently has been rebranding, or rather...