Articles in Category: Managing Email
Articles discussing how to manage email – from creating accounts, filing messages, and just generally using email effectively.
What Does It Mean When My Email Program Asks If It Should Compact My Email?
Compacting should be completely transparent. It makes files smaller and potentially makes access of email a little faster. There is one dramatic exception.
Why Are Emails I Receive Five Minutes out of Sync?
Outlook doesn’t keep its own time. Outlook uses the system time. The real issue here is understanding where the “time” comes from when you receive an email.
Where do attachments live once they’re sent?
Once an email is sent it, and the attachments it might include, are copied to a sequence of servers until they reach the destination inbox. Most importantly, once it leaves your machine, it leaves your control.
How Do I Detect Web Beacons in Email?
A web “beacon” or “bug” is simply something in an email that reports back to the sender that you’ve opened the mail.
Why are Pictures I Email Arriving Blurrier than What I Sent?
Email pictures could be arriving blurry if your sending function is resizing them. We’ll take a few steps to track down the culprit.
Why is my email being immediately deleted?
Every so often, anti-malware software can go a little nuts, thinking that every email that you get is spam or a virus. Turn that scanning feature off.
Why Outlook Express Must Die
Outlook Express’s day has come and gone. It’s unsupported and often loses email. I’ll explain what I think you should do instead.
How Do I Move My Outlook Express Email from Windows XP to Windows 7?
I’ll show you how to move from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 (the easiest moving option), step by annoying step.
Someone’s Sending Email that Looks Like it’s from Me to My Contacts, What Can I Do?
If your contacts are getting email from you that you didn’t send, then it’s very likely that your email account has been compromised.
Where is Windows Mail, or Outlook Express, in Windows 7?
Windows Mail has been removed from Windows 7, along with several other applications. We’ll look at where to find their replacements.
Why Does Mail to Me Bounce with “mailbox full” Only if it’s Over 1 Megabyte?
If email sent to you bounces with a mailbox full message, it typically means just that. Make sure the steps you take to clear it actually do.
How Do I Put a Picture into the Body of an Email?
Depending on what email program you use, putting an image into the body of an email can be easy, difficult, or nearly impossible.
How do I move my Microsoft Outlook mail and address book from one computer to another?
Moving Microsoft Outlook mail from one machine to another involves copying a single file once the new copy of Outlook has been set up.
Why Is the Time on My Email Wrong?
Email is timestamped by the program that creates it. Normally Window’s time, date and time zone are used. Web services, however, need a little more.
How Can I Stop a Message in My Outlook Outbox that Won’t Send?
Once a message goes into your outbox, Outlook tries to send it. While it’s trying, there’s little you can do. So the trick is to force it to stop trying.
Outlook error 0x800ccc0d – how do I fix it?
Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d is simply a failure to connect – that’s in the error message. How to fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d involves a little investigation.
I Forgot My Password – Can I Somehow Get My Auto-login-Remembered Password?
There are tools to recover most of your ‘remembered’ passwords. You can use them if you forgot your ‘remembered’ password — and so can anyone with access to your machine.
What’s the Difference Between “Plain Text” and “HTML” Email?
Email can be sent in several formats, the most common being plain text and HTML. We’ll look at the difference, and which might be preferable.
Why Doesn’t My Email Format Properly in Outlook?
Outlook’s email formatting can occasionally cause issues when viewed by others. I have a couple of suggestions on how to reduce the problem.
Why Can’t I Send Email From All My Accounts?
Welcome to another casualty in the war against spam. ISPs are starting to use various techniques to limit the use of their mail servers to only their clients. Depending on what your ISP allows, you may be able to reconfigure. On the other hand, while it wasn’t the last straw, it’s one additional reason that … Read more
How can I archive email in my free email account?
Backing up a free email account is best done by downloading it to a PC-based mail program. Some services support it, others need a trick or two.
How do I separate emails I receive on a single account?
Well, you’re on the right track, that it’s related to your settings. But I also see a bit of a misunderstanding. A very common misunderstanding.
Why Can’t My Guest Send Email Using My LAN?
Issues with configuring a guest’s email have some simple solutions.
Digging out from a flood of email
Email filtering rules are good. Outlook 2003 is good. Rules + Outlook? Could be better.
How do I print an email with its attachments?
Attachments are a source of great confusion for many people. In concept they’re very, very simple. Excruciatingly simple, as a matter of fact. Then some email programs try to get “helpful”, and all heck breaks loose.
Will Outlook's reading pane tell senders I've seen their mail?
Under some circumstances, it might be possible for Outlook’s reading pane to tell senders that you’ve seen their mail.
