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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 March 2013)

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 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.

3. 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.

4. How to Recover a Forgotten Yahoo! Mail Password

Not all is lost if your Yahoo! Mail password is lost.

5. How to Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account

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

6. 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.

7. How to Access Gmail with Outlook

Outlook and Gmail make a great couple; they send each other messages all day long. Here's how to set up access to a Gmail account in Outlook, and it is terrifically easy.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.)
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