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Top 20 Most Popular AIM Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

From Heinz Tschabitscher,
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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.

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1. 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.

2. How to Access a Free AIM Mail Account with Windows Mail or 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.

3. 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.

4. How to 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).

5. 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.

6. How to 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.

7. 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.

8. How to 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.

9. How to Access AIM Mail in Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail provides full access to your AIM Mail account: you can read and archive messages, open custom folders and send mail, of course.

10. 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.
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