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Top 51 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 10/26/09)

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1. How to Change Your Gmail Password

Make it difficult for hackers to break into your Gmail account for any extended period of time by changing your password periodically.

2. 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.

3. How to Send Email from a PHP Script

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

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 Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account

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

6. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Mozilla Thunderbird

Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.

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 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.

9. How to Export Your Outlook Contacts to a CSV File

Keep your contacts even if you leave Outlook behind. If you save your Outlook contacts as a CSV file, you can easily import them elsewhere.

10. How to Block a Sender by Email Address in Windows Live Hotmail

Here's how to add any email address you like (or don't like, rather) to your black list of blocked senders in Windows Live Hotmail "manually".
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