Articles Index
POP (Post Office Protocol) Basics
The Post Office Protocol is what enables your email program to fetch new mail. Find out more about its purpose and its scope.
What IMAP Can Do for You
Have you ever wished you could access your emails from multiple computers and locations easily and all your access points would always be in sync? This, and some more, is what an IMAP email account can do for you.
Wet Daisies IncrediMail Letter
Send fresh little beauties. (IncrediMail)
What You Need to Know About Bayesian Spam Filtering
Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam based on its contents. They learn from spam and from good mail, resulting in a very robust and efficient anti-spam approach that returns hardly any false positives.
Email is Dead
Email users, ISPs and newsletter publishers have to deal with spam, being accused of spamming, being blocked and censored, and in general with a useless medium. Why would anybody want to deal with all that?
What Email Headers Can Tell You About the Origin of Spam
Want to know where all the junk mail is really coming from? Find out how the source of spam can be determined using an email's header lines.
What Spam Is, Why It Is, and Why It is Bad
What spam is and how it came to make everybody's (well, nearly everybody's) life more difficult.
The Hoax is a Worm, and a Virus
Are you your computer's most dangerous virus? Or is that just a hoax? Find out how hoaxes and virus warnings can have bad effects on your computer.
How Spammers Get Your Email Address
Why spam finds you everywhere. The techniques employed by spammers.
How Reading an Email Can Compromise Your Privacy
By merely opening an email message, you may be revealing a lot about yourself. Learn what, and how to avoid this email privacy invasion.
Use Absolute URLs in Email Marketing Messages, Newsletters
Relative URLs will fail to bring people from your newsletter to your site. Absolutely.
The First Email Message
How the development of a network that was a solution looking for a problem lead to the invention of email. Get the gripping story of the first email message.
How to Use Outlook Express with Opera
Open a new message in Outlook Express when you click on an email link in Opera.
How to Add an Attachment Quickly in MSN Explorer
An attachment, quickly! Here's how to add an attachment quickly in MSN Explorer.
Make it Easy for Subscribers to Change Their Email Address
Lose one address, gain another, retain a subscriber when a user's email address changes.
Sending an Email to Multiple Recipients - Cc: and Bcc:
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to more than one person easily and fast.
Fall Stationery
Join nature as it celebrates itself boasting colorful leaves and warm light, and share the fantastic fruits of Fall with this stationery. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Pilgrim Girl & Boy Thanksgiving Stationery
Pilgrim girl and Pilgrim boy say thank you for Thanksgiving. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Seashell Hunting Stationery
Go (and send the recipients of your emails) hunting for seashells on a beautiful beach. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Mother and Children Stationery
The ideal happy Mother's Day idyll is possible — minus "ideal" and minus "idyll", they're in the way of happiness. Happy Mother's Day! (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Secret Admirer Stationery
Whether you are the secret admirer or want to encourage somebody who you think and hope is secretly admiring you (yes, the difference is obscure), here's the perfect stationery. Naturally, it's also ideal for Valentine's Day. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
SMTP Inside Out
Have you ever wondered what happens when you click "Send"? Find out how SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, makes emails reach their destinations.
Use Smileys to Add Emotions to Your Emails
Avoid misconceptions in emails with emoticons, and have some fun, too.
The Case for Properly Attributing Quotations in Emails
Do you always know who said what in an email that contains quotes from more than one person? Here's an approach to quoting text in emails that makes sure it is always clear who authored a passage.
Organizing Email Messages in Mailboxes
Simplify filing and finding messages, your mailbox layout, and your life, too.