Back in the day, which honestly was not-so long ago, none of the webmail providers had blogs. For any new feature that was to be introduced you usually received a notification email from the provider which most people promptly ignored, so the providers pretty much stopped doing that. Later on all the providers started authoring blogs, detailing just about...

Yahoo! Mail is in fact available to use freely now (meaning a Plus! account is not required) to use with POP or IMAP. For the POP settings, all of that is available here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/mailplus/pop/ For IMAP on the other hand it’s a different story. Easy, but different. If you want to use Yahoo! Mail with IMAP right now,...

These days I’m an AOL Project Phoenix user (say what you will about AOL but it’s a damned fine email product) and I’ve more or less shifted 100% back to webmail over client mail. I still do use Mozilla Thunderbird, however it’s only to retrieve copies of email over IMAP for nightly backup purposes. I rarely compose/send any email in TB...

This tutorial is intended for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users as Windows Live Mail version 2011 does not run in XP. The last edition of WLM that XP supports is version 2009. If you’re using XP and want to know how to enable an image in your email signature with WLM 2009, see this video tutorial. One of the major changes from WLM 2009 to 2011 was the...

Over the years I’ve learned a few things when it comes to companies that try to hock stuff wanting me to buy-buy-buy. I’ve written similar articles here on this subject before, but this is my 2010 version. "The Big 4" Speech For any banking institution you conduct business with, you must call them on a yearly basis and give then a Big 4...

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...

The last time I did a video on this subject, I thought it would work for everybody who used the Windows Live Mail client, however a few said that even with the instructions they still encountered the infamous “red X” box where the signature image should go. Well, I was having none o’ that. I was bound and determined to find a way to get a...

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...

I had the opportunity to check out the next version of Windows Live Mail, that being Wave 4, a.k.a. Build 15:…and here’s my take on it. The ribbon interface There are many that say the ribbon interface is one of the worst things Microsoft has ever done, but, the one thing the naysayers always forget to mention is that any clickable function...

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...

In the context of this article I’m referring to the Windows Live Mail the email client and not the email service (Hotmail). When composing an email in WL Mail, most people use HTML to use features such as colored text, bold/italic/underline, and so on. It is true that any email composed in WL Mail can be saved as a web page, and it’s quite easy to...

Something that should be simple but unfortunately is quite difficult is getting an image to appear in an email signature when using the Windows Live Mail email client. After combing through the client and researching how to do this, I finally found a way that works. This supersedes my last document on this subject. See video below for...

It’s rare these days when I come across any app that makes me say, "Wow, now this is useful!" Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop is one of them. When it comes to email, there are many who prefer the convenience of web-based mail but wish there was a local application that looked and acted like a mail client. Zimbra Desktop is it. This software...

Knowing how to check the source, as in the raw "code," of an email is important because there will be times when you need to do it. Why? To check authenticity of an email. Spam and phishing emails are getting more tricky to identify all the time, and your best weapon against this is knowing how to check the source of an email. Unfortunately it is the...

Hotmail allows for a full seamless backup by means of the Windows Live Mail client using the DeltaSync protocol. Gmail allows for a full backup by means of freely available IMAP access. Y! Mail doesn’t have either of those options. A full backup includes not only your inbox, but also the "Sent" folder and any other folders you have. Even if you...

For those that use an @aol.com email address, you might have noticed an email that appeared to be spam, but it wasn’t. It came from the sender "FooterSettlement" with subject line "OFFICIAL NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPSED SETTLEMENT", and looked like this:   This is not spam. In short, what it means is that you now...

If you use a Windows Live email address, that being any address that ends in @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com, you can access the account right now in the Windows Live Mail client. The immediate advantages of using WL Mail:No ads anywhere in the client No ads sent on outgoing mail Allows for local caching of mail for faster access and being able to read...

This document is old. See this for a better way, with video! In Windows Live Mail (as in the e-mail client and not the web site) the default method for an e-mail signature is nothing but plain text, like this:   You can however create advanced e-mail signatures using the freely available Nvu web page editor. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Download and...

Note: This is for Windows 7 users only. In Windows XP and Vista, when you use the Windows Live Mail client, you can right-click the icon at the bottom so that it only appears as such when the app is minimized: When using the Windows Live Messenger, by default it will also have a small icon: However the problem is that these Windows Live applications do not...

Windows Live Mail is a great email client, no question. But one very longstanding complaint is the way it renders fonts. Whereas in other mail clients it’s stupidly easy to make mails look a specific way for text, in Windows Live Mail (and the previous Outlook Express) it is, put politely, a challenge. This tutorial is how to get the fonts to look...