It’s really easy to complain about webmail. After all, no email is perfect. However it’s rare that anyone says anything good about it, and said honestly it really is. Here are some of the better features of the major webmail providers out there. Who knows? There might be features mentioned here in the webmail you use below you didn’t even know...

There are a ton of people out there, maybe yourself included, that use a 1024×768 resolution either via a size-down utility like Sizer or as your native resolution. When using webmail there are certain providers that are better than others. Let’s take a look. HotmailProsLeft sidebar is easy to navigate Left sidebar menus can be expanded/collapsed...

Many of you have webmail accounts other than your primary email account that you don’t login to very often. This can result in an account deactivating itself due to inactivity. Granted, you can reactivate the account easily, but you probably lost any mail you had in there, and that’s annoying. Keeping webmail accounts ‘alive’ is simple...

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...

Being that more of us are doing more stuff in the browser these days, anything we can do in there is an advantage. Firefox is top dog when it comes to add-ons and extensions, and one that’s particularly useful is WebMail Notifier. WN has a support for a ton of different types of email:..and tons more besides that for sites you never thought you could get...

These tips are for use in supported browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc.), meaning they probably won’t work in Opera or other alternative browser. JavaScript also needs to be enabled in order for these to work (you would know if you turned if off). Yahoo! MailSearch mail: s Forward message: f Reply to all: a Turn the reading pane on or off:...

Question: What’s the fastest webmail on the planet? Answer: The type where you host it yourself. An often overlooked way of doing webmail (only because most people aren’t aware of it) is using a web hosted solution. This is where you register your own dot-com/net/org, then use your web host’s webmail system in order to send and receive...

Webmail is no doubt my preferred way to access email. Because it is available from any computer connected to the Internet (both sent and received mail) the convenience simply cannot be beat. Of course, with this convenience comes a price: you are at the mercy of the provider. For example, if you use Gmail and it goes down for some time, with it goes your email...

A very, very old email tip to prevent nasty code executions from spam on email clients was to simply disable the preview pane altogether. But you have to remember back then that email clients were decidedly "dumb". Today they’re much smarter. For example, you can disable/enable the preview pane at whim in Mozilla Thunderbird just by pressing F8....