Email: Most Popular Articles
These articles are the most popular over the last month.
Top 18 Free Email Services
If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You'll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 18 free email services reviewed here.
If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You'll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 18 free email services reviewed here.
Free Windows Email Programs
So, what is the best free email program for Windows? Is there a single best email client that works for everybody? No. There are many, and one of these great tools will work perfectly for you and your needs. (Windows)
So, what is the best free email program for Windows? Is there a single best email client that works for everybody? No. There are many, and one of these great tools will work perfectly for you and your needs. (Windows)
MSN Hotmail Reviewed
MSN Hotmail comes with solid security features and a straight forward, easy to use yet quite powerful interface.
MSN Hotmail comes with solid security features and a straight forward, easy to use yet quite powerful interface.
Get Yahoo Mail in Outlook Free
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.
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.
Send Email from a PHP Script
One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.
One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.
GMX Mail - Free Email Service
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
Mozilla Thunderbird Reviewed
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2)
Cc: and Bcc:
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to more than one person easily and fast.
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to more than one person easily and fast.
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.
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.
Get Hotmail in Mac OS X Mail
Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.
Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.
Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account
Terminate and close your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.
Terminate and close your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.
Windows Mail Reviewed
Windows Mail is a fun and functional email program that keeps you relatively safe with spam and phishing filters while offering fast search and enough room for creativity, maybe based on ready-made stationery. (Windows)
Windows Mail is a fun and functional email program that keeps you relatively safe with spam and phishing filters while offering fast search and enough room for creativity, maybe based on ready-made stationery. (Windows)
How to Find Anybody's Email
You know how elusive email addresses are. Even if you once had a friend's address, you may not be able to locate or recall it now that you need it. Or maybe the address has changed. No matter whose email address you are looking for or how much you know about the person, here are eight strategies that you can use right now to help you find. You'll look in new places and obvious but oft-overlooked corners.
You know how elusive email addresses are. Even if you once had a friend's address, you may not be able to locate or recall it now that you need it. Or maybe the address has changed. No matter whose email address you are looking for or how much you know about the person, here are eight strategies that you can use right now to help you find. You'll look in new places and obvious but oft-overlooked corners.
Free Hotmail in 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.
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.
Back Up or Copy Outlook Data
Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.
Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.
AIM Mail Reviewed
AIM Mail, AOL's free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.
AIM Mail, AOL's free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.
Gmail Free Email Reviewed
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort.
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort.
YPOPs! Reviewed
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Get Hotmail in Outlook Express
Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.
Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.
Email from PHP with SMTP Auth.
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.
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.
Export Outlook Contacts
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.
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.
Email 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.
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.
Top 11 Free POP and IMAP Email
Free email sounds nice, but isn't that the crippled deal where you get slow-loading pages and lots of ads? No and no. Some free email services offer POP or IMAP access, which means you can download your messages to any email program. Find the best free POP3 email service and free IMAP email services here.
Free email sounds nice, but isn't that the crippled deal where you get slow-loading pages and lots of ads? No and no. Some free email services offer POP or IMAP access, which means you can download your messages to any email program. Find the best free POP3 email service and free IMAP email services here.
Yahoo! Mail in Mac OS X Mail
Web-based or desktop email? It's great to have the choice, and with Yahoo! Mail, IzyMail and Mac OS X Mail you do have the choice. Here's how to set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Mail.
Web-based or desktop email? It's great to have the choice, and with Yahoo! Mail, IzyMail and Mac OS X Mail you do have the choice. Here's how to set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Mail.
Top Free Mac Email Programs
A free email programs comes with Mac OS X, and it's not a bad one at all. But you shouldn't be satisfied with the default email program — at least not until you've checked out the free alternatives. Here are my top free Mac email programs.
A free email programs comes with Mac OS X, and it's not a bad one at all. But you shouldn't be satisfied with the default email program — at least not until you've checked out the free alternatives. Here are my top free Mac email programs.
Windows Live Hotmail Reviewed
Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you 5 GB (and growing) of online storage, fast search, solid security, POP access and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you 5 GB (and growing) of online storage, fast search, solid security, POP access and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
Inbox.com Reviewed
Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program.
Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program.
Access 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.
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.
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.
Make it difficult for hackers to break into your Gmail account for any extended period of time by changing your password periodically.
Thunderbird Profile Backup
Copy all your Mozilla Thunderbird data (emails, contacts, settings, filters, junk mail training data and more) to a new computer, different partition or backup location.
Copy all your Mozilla Thunderbird data (emails, contacts, settings, filters, junk mail training data and more) to a new computer, different partition or backup location.
Thunderbird + Free Yahoo! Mail
Download mail from your Yahoo! Mail account into Mozilla Thunderbird and send messages through the former from the powerful desktop email program, too.
Download mail from your Yahoo! Mail account into Mozilla Thunderbird and send messages through the former from the powerful desktop email program, too.
Get Gmail in Mac OS X Mail
Doubly elegant: Gmail and Mac OS X Mail work together blissfully. Here's how to set up Mac OS X Mail to receive mail from your Gmail account and send through it.
Doubly elegant: Gmail and Mac OS X Mail work together blissfully. Here's how to set up Mac OS X Mail to receive mail from your Gmail account and send through it.
Yahoo! Mail Classic Reviewed
Yahoo! Mail Classic is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out.
Yahoo! Mail Classic is a comfortable, reliable and secure email service with unlimited storage. A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out.
Close Your Hotmail Account
Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)
Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)
Outlook: Out of Office Reply
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.
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.
IzyMail: POP & IMAP Hotmail
IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.
IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.
Block a Sender in 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".
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".
Outlook: Import Contacts
You extensive list of contacts or customers is stored happily in a spread sheet or database? After some simple importation steps, they can be in Outlook, too, and build the basis for a mailing list, for example.
You extensive list of contacts or customers is stored happily in a spread sheet or database? After some simple importation steps, they can be in Outlook, too, and build the basis for a mailing list, for example.
Windows Live Mail + Gmail
Windows Live Mail is great for reading and sending mail in your Gmail account. Good thing setting up Gmail in Windows Live Mail is so easy, too.
Windows Live Mail is great for reading and sending mail in your Gmail account. Good thing setting up Gmail in Windows Live Mail is so easy, too.
Insert Images Inline in Gmail
Instead of just attaching pictures, you want them to appear intermingled with your text? Here's how to insert an image inline into a message you are composing in Gmail.
Instead of just attaching pictures, you want them to appear intermingled with your text? Here's how to insert an image inline into a message you are composing in Gmail.
Top Mac RSS News Feed Readers
RSS feeds are an excellent way to keep up to date with information sources. An RSS feed reader will check subscribed channels for updates automatically and let you browse the news that's important to you. Here are my top picks of news aggregators for Mac users.
RSS feeds are an excellent way to keep up to date with information sources. An RSS feed reader will check subscribed channels for updates automatically and let you browse the news that's important to you. Here are my top picks of news aggregators for Mac users.
Identify Your Live Mail Folder
Locate the folder on your hard disk where Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express keeps your email messages, so you can back them up easily.
Locate the folder on your hard disk where Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express keeps your email messages, so you can back them up easily.
Eudora Reviewed
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that cans spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness. (Windows, Mac)
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that cans spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness. (Windows, Mac)
Top Windows RSS Feed Readers
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are my top picks for reading news on Windows.
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are my top picks for reading news on Windows.
How to Steal a Password
Hacking into somebody's (your?) web-based email account may be easier than you think.
Hacking into somebody's (your?) web-based email account may be easier than you think.
Windows 7 Email Program
Used to Outlook Express or Windows Mail? Find out where to find a comparable email program for Windows 7.
Used to Outlook Express or Windows Mail? Find out where to find a comparable email program for Windows 7.
Favorite Christmas Stationery
Christmas, that's lots of crunching snow beneath your feet and the clear, cold air that smells like — Christmas. Christmas, that's also a day at the beach and the hot air that smells like Christmas. Christmas, that's always great Windows Mail and Outlook Express stationery for your emails. Here are my all-time favorites.
Christmas, that's lots of crunching snow beneath your feet and the clear, cold air that smells like — Christmas. Christmas, that's also a day at the beach and the hot air that smells like Christmas. Christmas, that's always great Windows Mail and Outlook Express stationery for your emails. Here are my all-time favorites.
Top Disposable Email Addresses
If you give Web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases. Disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.
If you give Web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases. Disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.
OE: Access Free Yahoo! Mail
Using YPOPs!, you can download messages from your Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook Express and send mail conveniently, too. With IzyMail, you can even access all your online folders as if they were local.
Using YPOPs!, you can download messages from your Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook Express and send mail conveniently, too. With IzyMail, you can even access all your online folders as if they were local.
Top Big File Mailing Services
You can send any file as an attachment to anybody via email. Any file? Yes, as long as it meets the size restrictions of your email provider. If you have wrestled in frustration with transferring large files, try these services and tools that make sending GB-large files via email not only convenient and easy but also fast and secure. Here are my top picks.
You can send any file as an attachment to anybody via email. Any file? Yes, as long as it meets the size restrictions of your email provider. If you have wrestled in frustration with transferring large files, try these services and tools that make sending GB-large files via email not only convenient and easy but also fast and secure. Here are my top picks.
Recover Your 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.
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.
OS X Mail: Import OL Contacts
The OS X Address Book application can import Outlook contacts for use in Mac OS X Mail.
The OS X Address Book application can import Outlook contacts for use in Mac OS X Mail.
Outlook: To Undisclosed Recip.
If you want to send an email to a group of people but keep their email addresses hidden, send it to "Undisclosed recipients" in Outlook.
If you want to send an email to a group of people but keep their email addresses hidden, send it to "Undisclosed recipients" in Outlook.
Hotmail: Free POP Access
Here are the details you need to set up a free Windows Live Hotmail account in any email program using POP.
Here are the details you need to set up a free Windows Live Hotmail account in any email program using POP.
Zenbe - Free Email Service
Zenbe Personal organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too.
Zenbe Personal organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too.
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.
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.
Free Outlook Download
Looking to get a free Outlook download? Find it here.
Looking to get a free Outlook download? Find it here.
Core Email Etiquette Rules
Avoid the pitfalls of email, and communicate better by following these core rules of email etiquette.
Avoid the pitfalls of email, and communicate better by following these core rules of email etiquette.
Thunderbird: Export Mail to OE
Migrate all your mail from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook Express, from where you can further export it to other email programs, if necessary.
Migrate all your mail from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook Express, from where you can further export it to other email programs, if necessary.
Top 26 People Search Sites
Searching for people online? Looking for an email address? Look closer and find friends old and new as well as business contacts with these email address directories and people search engines. Here are your 26 best bets.
Searching for people online? Looking for an email address? Look closer and find friends old and new as well as business contacts with these email address directories and people search engines. Here are your 26 best bets.
Gawab.com - Free Email Service
Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 10 GB online space, POP and IMAP access as well as many a web-based goodie.
Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 10 GB online space, POP and IMAP access as well as many a web-based goodie.
Send an Anonymous Email
Do you want to send an email but make sure nobody knows it was you who sent it? Here's how to send a message anonymously.
Do you want to send an email but make sure nobody knows it was you who sent it? Here's how to send a message anonymously.
Yahoo! Mail - Free Email
Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web and mobile devices with unlimited storage, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot.
Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web and mobile devices with unlimited storage, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot.
Access AOL Email with Outlook
Use your AOL email accounts with all the power of Outlook. Here's how to set up AOL screen names as IMAP email accounts in Outlook.
Use your AOL email accounts with all the power of Outlook. Here's how to set up AOL screen names as IMAP email accounts in Outlook.
FastMail Free Guest Account
FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, and a stellar web interface.
FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, and a stellar web interface.
Yahoo! Mail as Email Default
When you click an email link or try to send a file from Word, for example, an obscure email program comes up while you would much rather use Yahoo! Mail (which you always use)? Here's how to set up Yahoo! Mail as your default email program in Windows for occasions like these.
When you click an email link or try to send a file from Word, for example, an obscure email program comes up while you would much rather use Yahoo! Mail (which you always use)? Here's how to set up Yahoo! Mail as your default email program in Windows for occasions like these.
Make Hotmail the Email Default
Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.
Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.
Make Gmail Your Default Email
Do you wish Gmail would come up when you click an email address on a web site? Here's how to make Gmail your default email program under Windows and Mac OS X.
Do you wish Gmail would come up when you click an email address on a web site? Here's how to make Gmail your default email program under Windows and Mac OS X.
Favorite Christmas E-Cards
Picture a silent street in the evening, covered thick and white. Can you hear the snow crunch under your feet? Picture a tree trimmed beautifully for Christmas. Can you hear the children laugh and play? Picture a hill, just perfect for sledding. Can you feel the anticipation mixed with sudden outbursts of amazement? You can send all this, and more, with wintry and festive Christmas e-cards.
Picture a silent street in the evening, covered thick and white. Can you hear the snow crunch under your feet? Picture a tree trimmed beautifully for Christmas. Can you hear the children laugh and play? Picture a hill, just perfect for sledding. Can you feel the anticipation mixed with sudden outbursts of amazement? You can send all this, and more, with wintry and festive Christmas e-cards.
Where Outlook Stores Mail
Find the directory where Outlook keeps all your precious data.
Find the directory where Outlook keeps all your precious data.
Back Up OE Address Book
Make sure you never lose your important Outlook Express contacts.
Make sure you never lose your important Outlook Express contacts.
How to Contact Hotmail Support
Can't log in to your Windows Live Hotmail or Hotmail account? Plagued by a glitch that prevents you from composing messages? Here's how to contact Windows Live Hotmail tech support for help.
Can't log in to your Windows Live Hotmail or Hotmail account? Plagued by a glitch that prevents you from composing messages? Here's how to contact Windows Live Hotmail tech support for help.
Get Gmail in Outlook 2003
Would you like to read your Gmail email not only on the web but in Outlook as well? Here's how to set up a Gmail account in Outlook for sending and retrieving mail.
Would you like to read your Gmail email not only on the web but in Outlook as well? Here's how to set up a Gmail account in Outlook for sending and retrieving mail.
Opera Reviewed
The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. (Windows)
The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. (Windows)
Free Gmail in Windows Mail
Do you want to combine the ubiquity and space of a Gmail account with the power and comfort of your Windows Mail? Here's how to set up access to your Gmail email in Windows Mail.
Do you want to combine the ubiquity and space of a Gmail account with the power and comfort of your Windows Mail? Here's how to set up access to your Gmail email in Windows Mail.
BCC Defined
A blind carbon copy (BCC) is a way to send an email message without revealing the recipient's address.
A blind carbon copy (BCC) is a way to send an email message without revealing the recipient's address.
Outlook Ex.: Compact Messages?
When Outlook Express claims it can "free up disk space" by "compacting messages", let it get away with such vague language. The process is good and essential. Let Outlook Express compact your folders now and then.
When Outlook Express claims it can "free up disk space" by "compacting messages", let it get away with such vague language. The process is good and essential. Let Outlook Express compact your folders now and then.
Export Mail from IncrediMail
Switch from IncrediMail to another email client and take your messages with you. Here's how to import mail from IncrediMail into Outlook Express or Windows Mail, for example.
Switch from IncrediMail to another email client and take your messages with you. Here's how to import mail from IncrediMail into Outlook Express or Windows Mail, for example.
Get Gmail in Outlook Express
When Outlook Express and Gmail meet (somewhere between Mountain View and Redmond), you can send and receive Gmail messages in Outlook Express.
When Outlook Express and Gmail meet (somewhere between Mountain View and Redmond), you can send and receive Gmail messages in Outlook Express.
Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail
Would you like to receive your Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail? With YPOPs!, you can.
Would you like to receive your Yahoo! Mail in Windows Mail? With YPOPs!, you can.
Fwd. Yahoo! Mail to Any Email
Receive all your Yahoo! Mail messages at another email address.
Receive all your Yahoo! Mail messages at another email address.
Find Your Thunderbird Profile
Locate the folder that contains your Mozilla Thunderbird messages, filters, settings and more.
Locate the folder that contains your Mozilla Thunderbird messages, filters, settings and more.
Get Gmail in Any Email Client
Use all the power of your desktop email client with your Gmail account by downloading messages via regular POP access. You can still have all your Gmail archived and searchable on the web or delete retrieved mail automatically.
Use all the power of your desktop email client with your Gmail account by downloading messages via regular POP access. You can still have all your Gmail archived and searchable on the web or delete retrieved mail automatically.
Export Hotmail Contacts
Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.
Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.
Yahoo!: Insert Images Inline
Instead of attaching pictures to your emails, grab them right off the Web and send them inline so recipients can easily view them without any hassle.
Instead of attaching pictures to your emails, grab them right off the Web and send them inline so recipients can easily view them without any hassle.
Mail.com Reviewed
Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security, convenience and storage of other web-based email services.
Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security, convenience and storage of other web-based email services.
Reinstall Outlook Express
If your Outlook Express is showing slow, stubborn, stuck and strange behavior, a fresh start can help. Here's how to re-install Outlook Express even if the installer won't let you.
If your Outlook Express is showing slow, stubborn, stuck and strange behavior, a fresh start can help. Here's how to re-install Outlook Express even if the installer won't let you.
Free Hotmail in Mac OS X Mail
You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.
You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.
Yahoo! Mail POP and IMAP
Download incoming Yahoo! Mail email to any email program or access all your Yahoo! Mail folders transparently. Both is easy and elegant with IzyMail.
Download incoming Yahoo! Mail email to any email program or access all your Yahoo! Mail folders transparently. Both is easy and elegant with IzyMail.
PHP: Use a Remote SMTP Server
Send emails from your PHP scripts without a local mail server installed.
Send emails from your PHP scripts without a local mail server installed.
Outlook Express: Free Hotmail
Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.
Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.
Free Gmail in 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.
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.
Free Windows RSS Feed Readers
RSS feed readers offer one of the most efficient ways to follow news, web site and software updates, newsletters, blogs and more. Many of the best news aggregators for Windows are available for free. Find them reviewed here.
RSS feed readers offer one of the most efficient ways to follow news, web site and software updates, newsletters, blogs and more. Many of the best news aggregators for Windows are available for free. Find them reviewed here.
Forward Windows Live Hotmail
Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).
Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).
Windows Live Hotmail in Mail
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.
NewzCrawler
NewzCrawler is a fantastic RSS feed reader with a highly usable interface and tons of useful features and gimmicks. (Windows)
NewzCrawler is a fantastic RSS feed reader with a highly usable interface and tons of useful features and gimmicks. (Windows)
Restore Outlook Backups
Recover messages, your address book, calendar, and other essential Outlook data from a backup copy.
Recover messages, your address book, calendar, and other essential Outlook data from a backup copy.
Outlook: Create Mailing Lists
Create your own mailing lists in Outlook and send messages to groups of people easily.
Create your own mailing lists in Outlook and send messages to groups of people easily.
Office Outlook Connector
Office Outlook Connector plugs Windows Live Hotmail and Office Live Mail accounts so well into Outlook that they behave much like local mail — and you can use them offline, too. (Windows)
Office Outlook Connector plugs Windows Live Hotmail and Office Live Mail accounts so well into Outlook that they behave much like local mail — and you can use them offline, too. (Windows)
Top Free Christmas Letters
Have yourself an incredible little Christmas! And if you use one of the many wonderful IncrediMail letters for Christmas, you can easily share it even with those far away. Here are my favorites.
Have yourself an incredible little Christmas! And if you use one of the many wonderful IncrediMail letters for Christmas, you can easily share it even with those far away. Here are my favorites.
Windows Live Mail Reviewed
Windows Live Mail is a comfortable email program that lets you access IMAP, POP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts with verve and ambition to connect with Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Calendar, your blog and RSS news feeds, too. (Windows)
Windows Live Mail is a comfortable email program that lets you access IMAP, POP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts with verve and ambition to connect with Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Calendar, your blog and RSS news feeds, too. (Windows)
Gmail IMAP Access
Gmail IMAP provides seamless access to all your Gmail messages in any email program or mobile device and makes your labels appear as folders, too.
Gmail IMAP provides seamless access to all your Gmail messages in any email program or mobile device and makes your labels appear as folders, too.
IncrediMail XE Reviewed
IncrediMail is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send while protecting you from spam, phishing and fraud attempts in a convenient manner. (Windows)
IncrediMail is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send while protecting you from spam, phishing and fraud attempts in a convenient manner. (Windows)
Yahoo! Mail in any Mail Client
Send and receive Yahoo! Mail with Outlook Express, Eudora, or another email program.
Send and receive Yahoo! Mail with Outlook Express, Eudora, or another email program.
Close Your AIM Mail Account
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
Do you have an AIM Mail account, screen name and email address that you no longer want or need? Here's how to get rid of them.
Most Popular Email Tips
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.
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.
Mac OS X Mail Reviewed
Mail is the solid, powerful and easy to use email program built into Mac OS X. While Mail's smart spam filter gets rid of practically all junk mail, the astonishingly fast and precise search and smart folders make finding and managing good mail a snap. (Mac)
Mail is the solid, powerful and easy to use email program built into Mac OS X. While Mail's smart spam filter gets rid of practically all junk mail, the astonishingly fast and precise search and smart folders make finding and managing good mail a snap. (Mac)
Access Gmail in iPhone Mail
You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.
You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.
Pegasus Mail Reviewed
Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows. (Windows)
Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows. (Windows)
Hotmail Attachment Size Limit
You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.
You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.
Create a 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.
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.
OL: Graphic Signature
Make the signature appended to your emails in Outlook a richer experience by adding graphics, animations and logos.
Make the signature appended to your emails in Outlook a richer experience by adding graphics, animations and logos.
Free Spam Filters for Windows
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Mulberry Reviewed
Mulberry is a powerful and incredibly versatile email client available for all the popular platforms. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Mulberry is a powerful and incredibly versatile email client available for all the popular platforms. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Make Outlook the Email Default
Use Outlook for all your email tasks automatically.
Use Outlook for all your email tasks automatically.
Web Search for Email Addresses
Search somebody's email address like you search for anything else on the Web (and successfully).
Search somebody's email address like you search for anything else on the Web (and successfully).
Most Popular Free Stationery
If email starts to get boring, it's time for new colorful Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Outlook stationery. Or silent and thoughtful stationery. Or lovely and heartwarming stationery. Here are the picks of the picks, the best of the best, here's the stationery that has been downloaded most often.
If email starts to get boring, it's time for new colorful Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Outlook stationery. Or silent and thoughtful stationery. Or lovely and heartwarming stationery. Here are the picks of the picks, the best of the best, here's the stationery that has been downloaded most often.
Free Windows Live Mail Dload
Looking to get a free Windows Live Mail download? Find it here.
Looking to get a free Windows Live Mail download? Find it here.
Block a Sender in Yahoo! Mail
Start a Yahoo! Mail email boycott.
Start a Yahoo! Mail email boycott.
Beginner Win Email Programs
Some email programs tend to overwhelm you with obscure and undocumented features. Others are easy to use and a joy to use even for inexperienced emailers. Find the best beginner email clients for Windows.
Some email programs tend to overwhelm you with obscure and undocumented features. Others are easy to use and a joy to use even for inexperienced emailers. Find the best beginner email clients for Windows.
Outlook: Insert Images Inline
If you want to include your photos, sketches or other images in your email messages directly (instead of as attachments), here's how to do it in Outlook.
If you want to include your photos, sketches or other images in your email messages directly (instead of as attachments), here's how to do it in Outlook.
Import Addresses into Gmail
Your friends have not left you when you started using Gmail? Good, and now you can keep their contact info, too, by importing it from another email program or service.
Your friends have not left you when you started using Gmail? Good, and now you can keep their contact info, too, by importing it from another email program or service.
Outlook Express: Out of Office
Not at the office? Away from all computers? Email without reach? While you enjoy the time, Windows Mail or Outlook Express can dutifully and automatically reply to incoming emails, letting people know when you'll be back to respond in person.
Not at the office? Away from all computers? Email without reach? While you enjoy the time, Windows Mail or Outlook Express can dutifully and automatically reply to incoming emails, letting people know when you'll be back to respond in person.
AOL: Saved on My PC Backup
Create backup copies of the messages and other data in your "Saved on My PC" filing cabinet. You can also migrate your AOL data to another computer easily using this method.
Create backup copies of the messages and other data in your "Saved on My PC" filing cabinet. You can also migrate your AOL data to another computer easily using this method.
IncrediConvert IM Export Tool
IncrediConvert lets you get your messages (including attachments) out of IncrediMail into other email clients by converting them to EML files in a rush. (Windows)
IncrediConvert lets you get your messages (including attachments) out of IncrediMail into other email clients by converting them to EML files in a rush. (Windows)
Keep PSTFiles Small
If you want to make sure your Outlook is fast and snappy, keept your main PST file size small — by moving old mail to a separate archive file, for example.
If you want to make sure your Outlook is fast and snappy, keept your main PST file size small — by moving old mail to a separate archive file, for example.
MacFreePOPs Reviewed
MacFreePOPs makes it easy to run FreePOPs on a Mac and access web-based email services such as Windows Live Hotmail in desktop email programs such as Mac OS X Mail. (Mac)
MacFreePOPs makes it easy to run FreePOPs on a Mac and access web-based email services such as Windows Live Hotmail in desktop email programs such as Mac OS X Mail. (Mac)
PST File Size Limit
The more emails you keep in Outlook, the bigger your Personal Folders (PST) file grows. Can this go on ad infinitum, or is such a PST file's size limited?
The more emails you keep in Outlook, the bigger your Personal Folders (PST) file grows. Can this go on ad infinitum, or is such a PST file's size limited?
Outlook Express Reviewed
Outlook Express is a simple, easy to use and friendly email program that gets the job done while protecting your privacy and security. (Windows)
Outlook Express is a simple, easy to use and friendly email program that gets the job done while protecting your privacy and security. (Windows)
Windows Mail Signature Image
Here's how you can add an image or an animation to your signature at the bottom of every message you send with Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Here's how you can add an image or an animation to your signature at the bottom of every message you send with Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
Santa Wish List Letter
Write a wonderful wish list for Santa (or lovely Christmas greetings) with this IncrediMail letter. (IncrediMail)
Write a wonderful wish list for Santa (or lovely Christmas greetings) with this IncrediMail letter. (IncrediMail)
Request Read Receipts in Mail
Have you ever wondered what happened to an email you sent? In Mac OS X Mail, you can request a read receipt for all messages and get notified when your mail is opened.
Have you ever wondered what happened to an email you sent? In Mac OS X Mail, you can request a read receipt for all messages and get notified when your mail is opened.
Free Outlook Express Download
Looking to get a free Outlook Express download? Find it here.
Looking to get a free Outlook Express download? Find it here.
Image in Your Yahoo! Signature
Do you want more? More than text, fonts, colors and formatting? Here's how to place an image or picture inside your Yahoo! Mail signature.
Do you want more? More than text, fonts, colors and formatting? Here's how to place an image or picture inside your Yahoo! Mail signature.
OL: Categories as Distr. Lists
Turn your Outlook contacts into elegant, flexible and stable mailing lists by using categories instead of distribution lists.
Turn your Outlook contacts into elegant, flexible and stable mailing lists by using categories instead of distribution lists.
AOL Email in Any Email Program
Want to read your AOL email with something else than AOL? Here's how to access AOL email accounts with just about any email client comfortably.
Want to read your AOL email with something else than AOL? Here's how to access AOL email accounts with just about any email client comfortably.
Gmail Notifier Reviewed
Gmail Notifier offers stylish and useful new mail announcements for a Gmail account. (Windows)
Gmail Notifier offers stylish and useful new mail announcements for a Gmail account. (Windows)
Google Reader Reviewed
Google Reader is a decidedly simple yet very usable and, thanks to a flexible labeling system, quite comprehensive web-based RSS feed reader.
Google Reader is a decidedly simple yet very usable and, thanks to a flexible labeling system, quite comprehensive web-based RSS feed reader.
Back Up / Copy Outlook Express
Trusting your computer is good, but regular backups are much better. They help you avoid losing any of your important emails. Here's how to create a backup copy of all your Outlook Express folders and messages easily.
Trusting your computer is good, but regular backups are much better. They help you avoid losing any of your important emails. Here's how to create a backup copy of all your Outlook Express folders and messages easily.
High-Demand Gmail Tips
If they know something about Gmail that you don't know, their advantage will be short-lived, because here are the 10 Gmail tips and techniques most frequently requested. If you have a Gmail account, get the most out of it.
If they know something about Gmail that you don't know, their advantage will be short-lived, because here are the 10 Gmail tips and techniques most frequently requested. If you have a Gmail account, get the most out of it.
Linux/UNIX Email Clients fo...
Using these email clients, you can combine Unix reliability with a the familiar ease of use you know from Windows.
Using these email clients, you can combine Unix reliability with a the familiar ease of use you know from Windows.
Thunderbird Profile Restore
Restore Mozilla Thunderbird as it was — on your old computer, or before your hard disk crashed.
Restore Mozilla Thunderbird as it was — on your old computer, or before your hard disk crashed.
If Links in Emails Do Not Work
When you click the link to a web page in an email, nothing happens? Here's how to make links work again and open happily in your browser; works for Outlook, Outlook Express, and just about any other Windows email program.
When you click the link to a web page in an email, nothing happens? Here's how to make links work again and open happily in your browser; works for Outlook, Outlook Express, and just about any other Windows email program.
mBox Mail - Hotmail on iPhone
mBox Mail works much like the iPhone's built-in Mail but talks to Windows Live Hotmail accounts and integrates your Windows Live contacts with your iPhone's, too. (iPhone, iPod touch)
mBox Mail works much like the iPhone's built-in Mail but talks to Windows Live Hotmail accounts and integrates your Windows Live contacts with your iPhone's, too. (iPhone, iPod touch)
Add Bcc Recipients in Outlook
Send blind carbon copies with Outlook — copies whose recipients will remain anonymous.
Send blind carbon copies with Outlook — copies whose recipients will remain anonymous.
Snow Scene Stationery
It's a fabulous winter wonderland, covered thick in snow and anticipating Christmas with every snowflake. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
It's a fabulous winter wonderland, covered thick in snow and anticipating Christmas with every snowflake. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Get AOL in Windows Mail
Read and send your AOL mail in Windows Mail. You can even access all of your folders easily.
Read and send your AOL mail in Windows Mail. You can even access all of your folders easily.
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.
Want to get rid of a Gmail account? Instead of letting it expire, find out how to delete your Gmail account right now.
Minimize Outlook to the Tray
Keep Outlook readily accessible while minimizing both its window and the space it consumes on the screen.
Keep Outlook readily accessible while minimizing both its window and the space it consumes on the screen.
BigString.com - Free Email
BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.
BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.