Articles in Category: Email
Email – the most used, most long lived communications medium offered by networks of interconnected computers.
7 Signs of Phishing to Watch For
A friend received a fairly convincing phishing attempt. I’ll cover the signs that showed it was bogus.
How Do I Find Out Who Sent Email Trying to Harass or Intimidate Me?
Both children and adults receive harassing or abusive email. Sadly, there’s no easy way to trace it back to a sender who doesn’t want to be found.
What Do Spam Filters Look At?
Spam filters can be sophisticated or simple. I’ll look at some of the characteristics of email that spam filters check.
How Do I View the BCC Recipients on an Email I’ve Received?
BCC is a way to send copies of email without all recipients being visible. But can you still view the BCC’ed?
What Does the “Mailbox Unavailable” Error Mean and How Do I Fix It?
“Mailbox unavailable” is a common email bounce message that tells us very little. I’ll review some of the more common causes of this message.
What Is Modern Authentication?
OAuth2, aka a “Modern authentication method”, removes the burden of authentication from the email program to the email service itself, enabling a number of important security features.
How Do I Close My Hotmail or Outlook.com Account?
“I want to close my Hotmail account” is a knee-jerk reaction to many account problems. It’s easy, and I’ll show you how, but it also may be pointless or even harmful.
How Do I Stop Outlook.com from Putting Legitimate Messages in the Junk Mail Folder?
Outlook.com, like most email services, tries hard to keep spam out of your inbox. Sometimes it gets a little too aggressive. I’ll look at how to tame it.
What’s the Difference Between an Email Domain, Account, Address, and Alias?
Email comes with its own set of terminology. I’ll review how email addresses, accounts, domains, and aliases relate.
How Do I Find Someone’s Email Address?
It can be extremely difficult to find the email address of someone you want to contact. To begin with, they must want to be found.
8 Ways Spammers Get Your Email Address
Spam is annoying. What’s more annoying are all the ways spammers have to get our email addresses in the first place.
How Do I Unsubscribe from All These Unwanted Emails?
There are emails from which you should certainly unsubscribe if you no longer want them. However, there are emails that you absolutely should never unsubscribe from. I’ll review the difference.
How Do I Move My Address Book From One Provider to Another?
Taking your contacts with you when moving from one platform to another is a clumsy process.
Are Zip Files Safe to Open?
ZIP files are useful for compressing and containing collections of files. Unfortunately, they’re also useful to hackers, spammers, and scammers.
Why Are They Saying I’m Sending Too Much Spam?
How your email can get blocked for spam you didn’t send, and what to do about it.
How to Deal When Unsubscribe Doesn’t Work
When a legitimate email sender doesn’t respond to an unsubscribe request, they’re no longer legitimate. Here’s what to do.
What’s the Difference Between Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, Msn.com, and Live.com?
Like many Microsoft products, Hotmail’s name has changed a time or two and caused a great deal of confusion. I’ll try to make sense of it all.
Why Do I See Lots of Failed Login Attempts on My Account?
I’ll show you how to look at your Outlook.com recent activity and review why it might be full of failed login attempts.
How Do Gmail Labels Relate to Folders?
Gmail labels are similar to folders, but there are a couple of important differences to know if you use a desktop email program to access Gmail.
I’ve Been Accused of Being a Spammer. What Can I Do About It?
It’s not uncommon for email to bounce in ways that imply you might be spamming. I’ll look at what may or may not be happening.
Can Permanently Deleted Email Be Recovered?
In most cases, deleted email is gone beyond your ability to recover it. As always, however, there are exceptions.
Can’t We Just Spam the Spammers to Death?
Unfortunately, that turns you into, yes… a spammer! There are many, many problems with this idea. I’ll explain a few.
How Do I Change the Email Address of My Microsoft Account?
You can associate multiple email addresses with your Microsoft account. Who knew?
Has a Hacker Really Hacked My Email Account?
An email claims your email account has been hacked, possibly even including a password you’ve used. Don’t be fooled; it’s a scam.
Why Am I Getting Email from a Dead Person?
It’s hard enough to experience the loss of a friend or a loved one. To get email from them thereafter can be very disturbing.
Behind the Scam: Decoding the Secrets of Fraudulent Emails
Scam emails often have clues ranging from obvious to obscure. I’ll take a scam email and show you what I see.
What Does “Over Quota” Mean? What’s a Quota?
Being over quota means you’ve received or kept too much email. To deal with it, you need to understand where that email is being kept.
What Is My Microsoft Account Recovery Email?
Your Microsoft account recovery email address is an important part of making sure you never lose access to your account.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.