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How to Access Outlook.com in Postbox

As a backup or for convenience, here's how to set up an Outlook.com account in Postbox.

How to Set Up Outgoing AOL Email in Any Email Program

If you read your AOL email in your favorite email program, here's how to send it, too.

How to Whitelist a Sender or Domain in Gmail

Make sure Gmail never thinks messages from certain senders (your friends and family, for example) or domains (say, your company) are spam.

How to Change the Default Font Face and Size in Outlook

The font Outlook uses when you compose a message or read an email is too wide, tall, small, tiny, big or blue? Here's how to specify the precise font, font style and color to use by default for emails in Outlook.

How to Send Email From an Alternate Address in Gmail for iPhone and iPad

Send messages from all the addresses you receive at Gmail on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — and more.

How to Access Outlook.com in Sparrow for iPhone

Get and send mail using your Outlook.com address with the speed and convenience of Sparrow for iPhone. Here's how to add Outlook.com as a POP email account to Sparrow for iPhone.

How to Control the Amount and Kind of Email You Get from Facebook

Getting too much mail from Facebook? Here's how to set up Facebook to send you only the email notifications you want to receive.

How to Access Outlook.com in Sparrow for Mac

Want Sparrow on your Mac's desktop to download from and send through Outlook.com? Here's how to add a Outlook.com account to Sparrow for Mac.

How to Send a Message in Plain Text from Gmail

Sending a message using only plain text in Gmail makes sure it will be received and welcomed by everybody.

How to Access Outlook.com via POP in An Email Program

Set up Outlook.com email in your email program on computer or mobile device to receive incoming messages (via POP) and send new mail as well as replies (using SMTP).

How to Set up a Vacation Auto-Reply in AIM Mail or AOL Mail

Let AIM Mail or AOL Mail reply to incoming emails while you're away.

How to Sync Yahoo! Calendar with iPhone Calendar

Want iPhone Calendar and Yahoo! Calendar to sync automatically and with new events pushed to the phone to boot? Here's how to set up Yahoo! Mail and iPhone Calendar synchronization.

How to Have OtherInbox Organize Your Yahoo! Mail Messages Automatically

Get your Yahoo! Mail messages organized every day without lifting a finger. Here's how to have OtherInbox filter mail that can wait automatically and extract important dates to a calendar, too.

How to Delete Attachments from a Message in Mozilla Thunderbird

Delete attached files from emails you have received in Mozilla Thunderbird to save mailbox space while still saving the messages for reference. You can even replace the attachment with a link to the file on your hard disk.

How to Protect Your Outlook.com Account with Two-Step Verification

Render your Outlook.com email account more secure: two-step verification requires you — and, more importantly, potential hackers — to enter not only your password but a second code generated just for the occasion and received by email at another address, phone, SMS text message or app.

How to Set Up Application-Specific Passwords for Accessing Outlook.com via POP

Want to enable secure two-step authentication and access Outlook.com in your email program via POP? Set up a special passwords for each email client you use (on a desktop, say, phone or tablet). You can always disable access with these passwords easily later.

How to Use Outlook.com Keyboard Shortcuts

When the keyboard is closer than the display or mouse, it may be faster to engage Outlook.com, too. Here's how to use keyboard shortcuts to operate Outlook.com effectively.

How to Add Background Sound to Emails in Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express

Enrich your emails in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express with some music that will automatically play when the recipient opens them.

How to Send Plain Text Mail by Default in Win Live Mail, Win Mail, Outlook Expr.

Make sure everyone can read your messages composed in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express.

How to Flag a Message for Follow-Up in Yahoo! Mail

Make sure you don't forget to remember. Marking mail for follow-up can help you keep your Yahoo! Mail Inbox clean while everything gets done, read and filed.

How to Revoke Easy Access to Outlook.com on Trusted Devices Remotely

Misplaced the tablet on which you can open Outlook.com without logging in using two-step authentication? Suspect somebody might be able to sneak up to a computer you marked a "trusted device"? You can revoke that status remotely and require more secure two-step authentication in all browsers at least once.

How to Turn Off Two-Step Authentication for Outlook.com in a Specific Browser

Make signing in to Outlook.com easier on the computers and devices to which only you have access by authenticating with two steps just once. In the future, a password will be enough. You can, of course, revoke easy access — if a device gets lost, for instance.