AIM Mail and AOL Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Like most of what comes out of AOL, AIM Mail, its free email service, comes with a simple, easily approachable interface. Do not let that deceive, you, however: AIM Mail is full of nice details and interesting tricks. Find out more, get more out of AIM Mail with these tips.
Most Popular AIM Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets
What do you want to do with your free and large AIM Mail account? Certainly not the exact same things everybody else wants. But... maybe something similar? Let's see if the AIM and AOL Mail tips most popular with others can prove useful to you, too.
What do you want to do with your free and large AIM Mail account? Certainly not the exact same things everybody else wants. But... maybe something similar? Let's see if the AIM and AOL Mail tips most popular with others can prove useful to you, too.
Check the Spelling Automatically and Always in AIM Mail
Never forget to check the spelling before you click "Send" again. AIM Mail can run its spell checker over any message you write automatically.
Never forget to check the spelling before you click "Send" again. AIM Mail can run its spell checker over any message you write automatically.
Create an Email Signature in AIM Mail
Set up a short signature once in AIM Mail and have it added to your every email automatically.
Set up a short signature once in AIM Mail and have it added to your every email automatically.
How to Access a Free AIM Mail Account with IncrediMail
AIM Mail and IncrediMail make a dynamic duo of great email service and rich email client. Here's how to set up IncrediMail to receive and send mail from and through your AIM Mail account.
AIM Mail and IncrediMail make a dynamic duo of great email service and rich email client. Here's how to set up IncrediMail to receive and send mail from and through your AIM Mail account.
How to Access a Free AIM Mail Account with Outlook Express
Ah, the sweet taste of freedom — a peculiar, superficial kind of freedom, of course. But freedom nonetheless: get your AIM Mail in Outlook Express in a very elegant manner.
Ah, the sweet taste of freedom — a peculiar, superficial kind of freedom, of course. But freedom nonetheless: get your AIM Mail in Outlook Express in a very elegant manner.
How to Access AIM Mail in Windows Live Mail desktop
Windows Live Mail desktop provides full access to your AIM Mail account: you can read and archive messages, open custom folders and send mail, of course.
Windows Live Mail desktop provides full access to your AIM Mail account: you can read and archive messages, open custom folders and send mail, of course.
How to Access an AIM Mail Account in Mozilla Thunderbird
You can have your mail in the web-based AIM Mail and see it in Mozilla Thunderbird, too. Here's how to access a free AIM Mail account with Mozilla Thunderbird.
You can have your mail in the web-based AIM Mail and see it in Mozilla Thunderbird, too. Here's how to access a free AIM Mail account with Mozilla Thunderbird.
How to Access Your AIM Mail Account in Your Email Program via IMAP
AIM Mail is readily accessed on the web, but setting it up to be delivered (seamlessly and automatically syncing up with the web version) to your desktop email program is a snap, too.
AIM Mail is readily accessed on the web, but setting it up to be delivered (seamlessly and automatically syncing up with the web version) to your desktop email program is a snap, too.
How to Add a Display Name to the From: Lines of Mail You Send from AIM Mail
AIM Mail screen names are scarce, and yours might not reflect your real name, business or pseudonym perfectly. Fortunately, you can add any further name to the From: lines of all messages you send.
AIM Mail screen names are scarce, and yours might not reflect your real name, business or pseudonym perfectly. Fortunately, you can add any further name to the From: lines of all messages you send.
How to Block as Spam All Mail Not from People in Your AIM Mail Address Book
Render your AIM Mail Inbox spam-free: have all mail from people not in your address book routed to the "Spam" folder.
Render your AIM Mail Inbox spam-free: have all mail from people not in your address book routed to the "Spam" folder.
How to Change the Columns Shown in AIM Mail
Don't care for flags, attachments or a button prone to deleting mail inadvertently? Would love to see message sizes? Here's how to change the columns shown in AIM Mail folders.
Don't care for flags, attachments or a button prone to deleting mail inadvertently? Would love to see message sizes? Here's how to change the columns shown in AIM Mail folders.
How to Change Your AIM Mail Password
Do you think AOL forgot to include into AIM Mail a way to change your password? You may be right; but you can change your password nonetheless — easily.
Do you think AOL forgot to include into AIM Mail a way to change your password? You may be right; but you can change your password nonetheless — easily.
How to Chat with Somebody in AIM Mail
In AIM Mail and AOL Mail on the web, you can not only send emails but exchange instant messages with people signed into AIM, too.
In AIM Mail and AOL Mail on the web, you can not only send emails but exchange instant messages with people signed into AIM, too.
How to Close Your AIM Mail Account
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
How to Filter a Folder's Messages To Suit Your Needs in AIM Mail
Want to see only unread mail in an AIM Mail folder, or just the messages to which you have not yet replied? Here's how to concentrate on just the kind of mail you want to see and hide the rest.
Want to see only unread mail in an AIM Mail folder, or just the messages to which you have not yet replied? Here's how to concentrate on just the kind of mail you want to see and hide the rest.
How to Have AIM Mail File Mail Using Filters
Spot the important mail fast by letting AIM Mail move all things that you know can wait to a special folder. Here's how to set up mail rules that automatically file incoming messages based on your criteria in AIM Mail.
Spot the important mail fast by letting AIM Mail move all things that you know can wait to a special folder. Here's how to set up mail rules that automatically file incoming messages based on your criteria in AIM Mail.
How to Keep a Copy of Sent Mail in AIM Mail
AIM Mail puts a copy of every message you send to the "Sent" folder automatically. If you intend to keep permanent copies of these messages there's something to consider, however.
AIM Mail puts a copy of every message you send to the "Sent" folder automatically. If you intend to keep permanent copies of these messages there's something to consider, however.
How to Prevent AIM Mail from Opening Messages in Pop-Up Windows
Is AIM Mail opening any new message in a new window and pops up a new frame when you want to compose an email, too? Here's how to prevent that and read as well as write inside the main AIM Mail window.
Is AIM Mail opening any new message in a new window and pops up a new frame when you want to compose an email, too? Here's how to prevent that and read as well as write inside the main AIM Mail window.
How to Prevent Privacy Infringement Through Remote Images in AIM Mail
Make sure AIM Mail does not reveal your opening messages to unknown senders.
Make sure AIM Mail does not reveal your opening messages to unknown senders.
How to Print a Message in AIM Mail
Send an email to the printer in AIM Mail and get physical proof it exists (also handy to take driving instructions and such with you in foldable form).
Send an email to the printer in AIM Mail and get physical proof it exists (also handy to take driving instructions and such with you in foldable form).
How to Read Mail Using the AIM Mail Preview Pane
Open and read emails in AIM Mail with the message list still visible.
Open and read emails in AIM Mail with the message list still visible.
How to Set up a Vacation Auto-Reply in AIM Mail
Let AIM Mail reply to incoming emails while you're away.
Let AIM Mail reply to incoming emails while you're away.
How to Send a Message in Plain Text from AIM Mail
If you want to make sure your recipients receive your email intact and have no reason to complain about formatting and security risk, send using plain text only. Here's how to do just that in AIM Mail.
If you want to make sure your recipients receive your email intact and have no reason to complain about formatting and security risk, send using plain text only. Here's how to do just that in AIM Mail.
How to Use AIM Mail Fast with Keyboard Shortcuts
You can start new messages, engage the spell checker or delete emails right from the keyboard in AIM Mail.
You can start new messages, engage the spell checker or delete emails right from the keyboard in AIM Mail.
How to View the Source of a Message in AIM Mail
The source of an email message can be used to trace it to its original sender, for example. In AIM Mail, getting the source is easy.
The source of an email message can be used to trace it to its original sender, for example. In AIM Mail, getting the source is easy.
Move Messages via Drag and Drop in AIM Mail
The fastest route to move a message to a folder may be the direct one in AIM Mail or AOL Mail on the web: using your mouse to drag and drop.
The fastest route to move a message to a folder may be the direct one in AIM Mail or AOL Mail on the web: using your mouse to drag and drop.
Set up Outgoing AIM Mail (SMTP) in Any Email Client
Use your AIM Mail account to send mail from any email client (and have copies of outgoing messages placed in the "Sent" folder automatically).
Use your AIM Mail account to send mail from any email client (and have copies of outgoing messages placed in the "Sent" folder automatically).
Suggest a Feature or Report a Bug for AIM Mail
Do let the makers of AIM Mail and AOL Webmail know if something's not right; do let them know if you have an idea for new feature or improvement, too, and everybody can profit from more capable an email service.
Do let the makers of AIM Mail and AOL Webmail know if something's not right; do let them know if you have an idea for new feature or improvement, too, and everybody can profit from more capable an email service.
Unsend a Message in AIM Mail
Have you written something you should not have sent? Has a message gone out to the (diametrically) wrong recipient? Are the numbers in your last email embarrassingly wrong? With AIM Mail, you can take back and unsend certain messages, even if you sent them from your desktop email program.
Have you written something you should not have sent? Has a message gone out to the (diametrically) wrong recipient? Are the numbers in your last email embarrassingly wrong? With AIM Mail, you can take back and unsend certain messages, even if you sent them from your desktop email program.
Use Rich HTML Text Formatting in AIM Mail
Be bold, insinuate italics, urge underlines and lament lists: here's how to make use of rich HTML formatting in emails you write in AIM Mail.
Be bold, insinuate italics, urge underlines and lament lists: here's how to make use of rich HTML formatting in emails you write in AIM Mail.