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Top 50 Most Popular Email Tips, Tricks and Secrets

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Learn something new about spam, find clever tricks for your email program or service and discover amazing secrets. Here are the ten most popular email tips. (Updated 06/08/09)

Being popular, of course, is not everything. Discover more than 1800 other tips, just as useful, about

1. How to Send Email from a PHP Script

One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.

2. How to Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account

Terminate your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.

3. How to Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Outlook

Your Yahoo! Mail account is not made for the web alone. Here's how to download mail from a free Yahoo! Mail address into Outlook — and how to send through Yahoo! Mail, too.

4. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in iPhone Mail

Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.

5. How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail

Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.

6. How to Send Email from a PHP Script Using SMTP Authentication

Now the email from your PHP script won't send. Now it will. Here's how to make PHP send emails even through mail servers that require authentication.

7. How to Set Up an Out of Office Vacation Auto-Reply in Outlook

While you are away from the computer, Outlook can automatically reply to incoming mail with a pre-written message telling senders when you’ll be able to reply individually.

8. How to Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data

Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.

9. How to Close Your Windows Live Hotmail Account

Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)

10. How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients

Do you want to send an email to a number of people quickly, but without having each recipient's name show up for everybody? Here's how to send an email message to undisclosed recipients.

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