Most people think the only free email that offers IMAP access is Gmail. Not so. Aol/AIM also has the same capability, which allows you to access your AOL/AIM account via the email client of your choice. If you already know how to configure an email account using IMAP, skip down to the mail servers section below. Why use IMAP? IMAP is better than POP because your...

For those of you out there who choose to use a traditional email client with IMAP to connect to Gmail (of which there are many of you), you may have noticed that checking your Gmail can at times be a bit on the slow side. A reason for this may be because you’re subscribed to all IMAP folders in "full download" mode. If you unsubscribe from...

This tutorial will instruct you how to do one of the following (depending on which e-mail you like best):POP to Hotmail (including Sent Mail and folders) POP to Gmail (including Sent Mail and folders)It’s easy enough to move everything in the inbox to a Hotmail or Gmail account. But what’s more important is your sent mail and mail you have stored...

One widely unknown feature of Outlook Express and the Windows Live Mail client is how easy it is to backup your mail locally (to which you can then burn to CD/DVD, put on a USB stick, etc.) Even if you’re not using Hotmail, you can easily back up any POP or IMAP account by a simple drag’n'drop to a local folder. You could even backup Gmail easily...

Name an e-mail service – any e-mail service – that offers both a web interface and a mail client, by the same company, that syncs mail, address book, calendar, instant messenger, and allows you to connect it directly to your domain… …all for free. As you can tell from the title of this article, Microsoft and its Live Services is the only...

A while back I got some questions about how to *exactly* set up e-mail with Opera so I decided to put together a video showing how it’s done. Some people aren’t aware that the e-mail client within Opera isn’t too shabby (it does OperaMail, POP and IMAP). See video below for...