Articles in Category: Email
Email – the most used, most long lived communications medium offered by networks of interconnected computers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How Do I Edit a Reply?
Edit a reply before sending it. Clean up your message, remove email addresses, and more.
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!
Is My Email Account Private?
If someone else shares or administers your email account, then your privacy is at risk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why is My Outlook.com Email Suddenly Full?
Microsoft made a confusing change to how storage is allocated between Outlook.com and OneDrive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
How Do I Keep My Email Address When I Change My ISP?
It's possible to have an email address that does not need to change each time you change internet providers.
How Do I Send Anonymous Email?
Don't send anonymous email from work or home. It takes extra steps to keep from being traced.
I Enabled Two-Factor Authentication and Now My Email Program Can’t Sign In
Two-factor authentication is an important security tool. To access those accounts in some programs, though, you may need an app password.
How Do I Reactivate an Old Email Account?
A closed email account is either waiting for you to reactivate it or is closed for good. The only way to tell is to try.
My Email Is Hacked, How Do I Fix It?
If your email is hacked, there are several steps you need to take to get it back and prevent it from being hacked again.
Recover Your Account Later by Setting Up a Microsoft Recovery Code Now
A recovery code created in advance can help you regain access to your Microsoft account if you get locked out.
How Do I Stop Someone from Emailing Me?
Sometimes you want to keep someone from contacting you. Ignoring them is often simplest, but there are tools to help as well.
Someone’s Sending from My Email Address! How Do I Stop Them?
Email spoofing is rampant. Spammers often send email that looks like it came from you, and there's little that you can do about it.
