Email account theft is rampant. If it happens to you, there are several steps you need to take — not only to recover your account, but to prevent it from being easily hacked again.
How to (Accidentally) Give Someone Else Your PayPal Account
Entering your email address incorrectly might just be a typo, but it can have surprising ramifications.
Tip of the Day: Mark Spam as Spam (and Move On)
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Tip of the Day: Use Local Folders to Avoid Email Loss
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Tip of the Day: Configure an Email Program (Even if You Don’t Use One)
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What is POP? Or POP3? And what about IMAP and SMTP?
POP, POP3, and SMTP are all acronyms used in configuring email. We’ll look at what they mean and how they relate.
How Do I Edit a Reply?
Edit a reply before sending it: clean up your message, remove email addresses, and more.
You Can use Free Email Safely (but most people don’t)
Free email is popular, ubiquitous … and risky. Free email accounts are lost regularly with no hope of recovery. I’ll review how you can use free email accounts safely.
Why Is an Email Address Sometimes in Angle Brackets?
Computers use email addresses to route email. Angle brackets are used when a more human-readable name is also included.
What is IMAP? And How Can it Help Me Manage My Email?
IMAP is a protocol that your email program may use to access your email. Among other features, it makes dealing with email on multiple devices much easier.
Are deleted emails really deleted?
Depending on what email program or service you use, deleted emails may or may not be really deleted. It’s surprisingly hard to tell for certain.
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.
‘Tis the Season … to Unsubscribe!
The holiday season brings with it a flood of email. That’s a great opportunity to evaluate, and unsubscribe from things you no longer need.
Why Are Pictures not Showing in Email?
There are many reasons you might find pictures not showing in email. I’ll review the complex world that is email, and some of the things that can go wrong.
8 Reasons Email is Wonderful
Some have said that email is dead. My take is completely opposite: email is one of the most effective communication methods we have.
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.
Why was my email bounced for sending too much spam?
You are exactly right: you are being punished for the actions of others. To understand who those “others” are, we need to look at how email makes it off of your computer to its destination.
What for-pay email providers do you recommend?
People often use free email providers for critical data only to lose everything when a problem occurs. So what do you look for in an email provider?
How do I access email stored in Outlook Express on Windows 8?
One of the problems with Outlook Express is difficulty in exporting data. Your best bet is to find a more recent software to help with the migration.
How do I deal with one email account on two machines?
There are various options to access one email account from multiple computers, and there are pros and cons to each.
2013’s Ten Most Popular Posts
As 2013 draws to a close, I review which articles on Ask Leo! were the most popular and briefly discuss what trends that I feel they reveal.
Why does mail hang around in my outbox before being sent?
There are many steps between your email and it’s journey out of the “Outbox.” Any one of those steps could be slowing you down.
Can I access the mail on my desktop from a networked machine?
There are several ways to share email accounts across computers. The best ones have to be set up before you need them.
How do I get my new email to be the default email in Windows?
Figuring out what is what with emails and email accounts can be quite confusing. But when all is said and done, you only need to change a simple configuration.
How do I send someone a large file?
Emailing large attachments is typically a bad idea as your mail is likely to not be delivered. We’ll look into alternatives.
Did someone login to Google with my password?
It’s frightening, on the server side, to watch the constant attempts being made to slowly brute force a way into email accounts. So it’s safe to assume that if Google notified you – someone got in!
What if the forwarding service goes away?
There is little that you or I can do when a website goes away except to use online tools to try to trace it, or find some other way to replicate the service.
Why can’t people click on links I send them?
Ninety-nine percent of the time when links aren’t clickable the problem is on the receiving end. It’s usually because their email program is trying to protect them from something that looks suspicious.
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.
Just How Secure Is Email, Anyway?
Email is ubiquitous and convenient, yet surprisingly not very secure. I’ll look at why that is and when you should worry.
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.
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.
Email I was composing has disappeared. Can I get it back?
I’m afraid the news is not good. You’ve looked in all the places that it could have been (drafts, in particular). I would have expected to find them in drafts, but I’m not sure why they’re not there, though I can make a few guesses. The real “problem” here is that you’ve picked perhaps one of the most dangerous […]
