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Top 50 Most Popular Email Tips, Tricks and Secrets

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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.

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

(Updated January 2012)

1. How to Delete Your Gmail Account

Want to get rid of a Gmail account? Instead of letting it expire, find out how to delete your Gmail account right now.

2. How to Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account

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

3. 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.)

4. How to Create an Email Signature in Outlook

Set up a short piece of text containing essential contact information, a tag line or maybe an ad or quotation to be inserted in every email you send from Outlook.

5. How to Block a Sender in Gmail

Are you getting nothing but jokes you did not ask for and amazing stories you don't read from a particular sender? Here's how to block them in Gmail and have all their mail sent right to the "Trash" folder, or at least out of the way for later review.

6. How to Recover a Forgotten Gmail Password

Can't get into your Gmail account because none of the passwords you think you remember work? Here's how to authenticate and set a new Gmail password to get back into your account.

7. How to Send Email from a PHP Script

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook

Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.

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