Articles in Category: Email

Email – the most used, most long lived communications medium offered by networks of interconnected computers.

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How Do I Sign In to a Different Gmail Account?

There are several ways to be signed in to multiple Gmail accounts simultaneously. I’ll review the most common and what I find the most useful.

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How Do I Tell Who Sent an Email?

It’s extremely unlikely. I’ll walk you through why that is and one way you might get lucky.

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What Is the Thunderbird Email File Location in Windows?

Thunderbird stores everything in what it calls a profile. I’ll show you how to locate yours.

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How Do I Recover My Outlook Account?

Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Microsoft account compromise and loss happens. Here’s how to get your account back depending on what happened to it.

A photorealistic image representing the concept of the irreversibility of sending an email. The scene is set in an office environment, where a person is sitting in front of a computer, their expression a mix of surprise and regret. The computer screen displays a generic email interface, with a sent message confirmation visible. The atmosphere conveys a moment of realization that once an email is sent, it's out of one's control. The room is well-lit, showcasing the office setting with modern furniture and technology, emphasizing the professional context in which email communication often takes place.

Can I Recall an Email From Gmail or Outlook.com?

You may have heard of a feature called “message recall”. For all intents and purposes, it’s not real.

A photorealistic image representing the evolution and consolidation of Microsoft's email services into Outlook.com. The image shows a computer screen with the Outlook.com login page prominently displayed in the center, surrounded by faded logos symbolizing their integration into Outlook.com. The background subtly reflects a timeline, indicating the passage of over 25 years, with visual elements that hint at Microsoft's changing strategies in email services. This represents the journey from multiple sign-in platforms to a single unified access point for all Microsoft email accounts.

Is There an MSN Sign-In to Hotmail?

Microsoft’s history with email and email addresses is long and reflects changing strategies within the company.

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How Do I Move Emails From One Account to Another?

Moving email from one account to another just takes some configurating and drag-and-dropping.

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Why Are My Mail Folders Not Showing In Outlook?

You’ve got your online email nicely organized into folders. Then you move to a desktop program, and none of the folders come with you. What now?

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How Can Newsletter Senders Tell That I Haven’t Opened Their Newsletter?

It’s impossible to truly determine if someone opened an email, but newsletters worrying about their reputation try to get an idea.

Opening a Virus?

Can I Get Malware From Opening an Email?

It used to be that simply viewing a malformed email could allow a virus to spread. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case.

New email address.

How to Change Your Email Address On Gmail

You can change your Gmail address by creating a new Gmail account. If that’s not really what you want, you’ll need to see which workaround you can live with.

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Can You Make an Email Without a Phone Number?

There are legitimate reasons for not wanting to give your phone number to an email service. Let’s look at alternatives.

About Thunderbird

Thunderbird: a Free, Open Source, and Powerful Email Client

Thunderbird is a robust and powerful email program that can meet the needs of both light and power users. I use it all day every day.

An office setting with a person sitting at a desk, visibly frustrated. The desk has a computer displaying a 'forgot password' error on the screen. The person is a middle-aged East Asian man in business casual attire. He's holding his head in one hand, and there's a notepad, a cup of coffee, and a smartphone on the desk. The room has a window with a view of a city skyline, suggesting an urban office environment. The atmosphere is that of stress related to forgotten credentials, with natural light coming from the window.

How to Recover an Outlook.com Account Without the Recovery Phone or Email

If you don’t have access to your account recovery phone number or alternate email address, there is a process you can go through to regain access to your account — maybe.

Email Filter

Why Does Email with a Lot of BCC’ed Recipients Bounce?

BCC is good for many things. Sending to many people at once isn’t really one of them.

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How Do I Change My Email Name?

Changing your email name is usually easy, but changing your email address involves setting up a new account.

How Do I Tell If an Email Address Is Fake?

It’s hard to determine whether an email address is fake.

Google Account Recovery Email Configuration

Will I Lose My Account If I Don’t Set a Recovery Email Address for My Google Account?

Recovery email addresses are an important safety net. Here’s what you need to do.

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How Does “Undo Send” Work?

Gmail and other email services offer the ability to “undo” an email. I’ll look at how it works and why it’s not what people expect.

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Can I Retrieve a Message I Submitted via a Web Form?

There isn’t a concept of a “sent mail folder” when filling out forms on a webpage, so there is nothing to retrieve.

Return to Sender

Will Email Bounce If I Send It to a Closed Account?

If you send email to an invalid address or a closed account, you may get a bounce back. You just can’t count on it.

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What’s the Difference Between Outlook, Outlook, and Outlook.com?

Microsoft continues to confuse us with product names. I’ll clarify the difference between Outlook, Outlook, and Outlook.com, and help you decide which you want.

No Google

How to Delete Your Google Account Permanently

Deleting is permanent. There’s another option that’s less drastic, includes a safety net, and eventually achieves the same goal.

Spam filter

What Is and Is Not Spam

Understanding what is and is not spam is important to make sure you get what you want and improve spam filtering for everyone.

Where things are stored now in Outloook.com and OneDrive. (Image: askleo.com)

How Do I Free Space in Outlook.com Without Losing Emails?

To avoid running out of space in your Microsoft/Outlook.com account, you can archive email messages to your PC.

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How Do I Use Two Google Accounts at the Same Time?

It’s possible to use more than one Google account at the same time, though it’s easy to lose track of which one you’re in.

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What’s the Point of “Mark as Spam”?

Sometimes “Mark as spam” may seem futile, but it has a purpose.

Stop Spam!

How Do I Stop Spam?

Spam is inevitable; just don’t ask for more.

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How Do I Forward My Old Email Address?

A few email providers have an email-forwarding feature, but most do not. If available, forwarding only works as long as you continue to own the original account.

Frustrated computer users. Perhaps he just lost his email account.

How Can I Avoid Losing My Business Email Account?

Losing your business email account can have dire repercussions. I’ll show you how to protect yourself.

No Spam

Why Shouldn’t I Post My Email Address in a Public Forum?

Spammers and internet trolls harvest email addresses via a variety of means. One of the most common is to simply surf the web and look for anything that might look like one.

Email Mailbox (conceptual)

What are POP3, IMAP, and SMTP?

POP, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP are all acronyms used in configuring email. We’ll look at what they mean and how they relate.

No Forwarding

Can I Stop Others from Forwarding Messages?

It’s not only impossible to prevent email from being forwarded; you can’t even prevent that forward from being altered, forged or defaced.

Outlook.com Storage Full

How Do I Move Email to an External Hard Drive?

The Outlook.com/OneDrive space limitation has many people looking for ways to download and preserve emails offline.

Email headers.

How Do I View Full Email Headers in Gmail?

Like most email programs and interfaces, Gmail hides the administrative information or ‘headers’ in email messages. They’re still easy to view.

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How Do I Edit a Reply?

Edit a reply before sending it. Clean up your message, remove email addresses, and more.

Pending Messages scam.

No, Your Inbox Is Not Full, and You Do Not Have Pending Messages

There’s been a recent rise in email scams purporting to notify you of email problems. It’s a trap!

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Is My Email Account Private?

If someone else shares or administers your email account, then your privacy is at risk.

Searching Email

How Do I Find Where My Email Has Been Used as a Recovery Email?

Turns out that finding all the places you’ve used your email address as a recovery address is close to impossible.

Delete!

How Do I Delete Multiple Emails When I Have a Lot to Delete?

It can be a challenge to delete multiple emails. I’ll look at some of the concepts and techniques used by various email programs to make it easier.

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How Long Will I Get Email From an Inactive Account?

Though inactive email accounts stay open for some time before they’re closed, spammers can make it appear as though an account is still active.

How Do I Transfer Hotmail or Outlook.com Contacts to Another Account?

It’s easy to transfer Outlook.com contacts to other accounts.

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Why Online Petitions are Often (and Still) a Bad Idea

Internet and online petitions seem like a quick and easy way to make a statement. Unfortunately, they’re often ineffectual, and at worst, they do harm.

Outlook.com Storage Full

How Do I Delete Attachments in Outlook.com?

If you want to free up space in your Outlook.com email account by deleting attachments but not their corresponding messages, you’ll need to take extra steps.

Exceeded your storage limit in OneDrive.

Why is My Outlook.com Email Suddenly Full?

Microsoft made a confusing change to how storage is allocated between Outlook.com and OneDrive.

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How Can I Tell if Someone’s Reading My Email?

It can be very difficult — perhaps impossible — to determine if your mail’s being read before you get to it.

No Spam

Why Is There So Much Spam?

Even though most of us might never fall for it, the reason there’s so much spam is simple: spam works.

My single, truly focused, Inbox

All the Emails in My Inbox Disappeared! What Do I Do?

I get reports of people who have lost the contents of their inbox. We’ll look at a couple of common causes and resolutions.

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Why Do Edits Made to a Document Emailed to Me Disappear?

Changes you’ve made to a document that was emailed to you can easily disappear. Let’s avoid that.

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How Can I Send an Attachment If It’s Blocked by the Recipient’s Email Program?

Many email programs try to protect users from malware by blocking certain kinds of attachments. What if you’re sending something that’s legitimate, but blocked?