by Tina Gasperson
Gmail is Google’s web mail service. It’s popular, easy to use, and free. One of the best features of Gmail is that it is easy to archive messages that you’ve already read, and search for them later using Google’s search technology. Google says you’ll never have to delete another message – they give you 7 GB of storage space for free. For that reason, some people have taken to using Gmail like a backup storage service by emailing files to themselves.
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by Gabe Goldberg
Back in the Internet’s pre-history, AOL was the leading online service, providing connectivity, software applications, content, news, games, and support. But as Internet availability and diverse content grew, the need for an all-inclusive “walled garden” — as AOL was charmingly called — diminished.
Even now, though, AOL provides many people’s entire online experience.
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by Gabe Goldberg
What could be simpler than sending email? You type, someone (sometimes many someones!) reads. But aren’t there some people whose email you enjoy reading and some whose notes are annoying or even painful to slog through?
Simple tips will make you a “favored corresponder” and get your email read sooner rather than later.
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by David Hakala
If you are overwhelmed by the tons of email messages that flood your inbox each day, take heart! There are lots of tools in Outlook 2007 that help you sort the wheat from the chaff and prioritize the wheat. Most of these tips work in earlier versions of Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Live Mail, too.
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by David Hakala
If you use Microsoft Outlook, your address book, contacts, mail, etc., you are using either a Personal Folders file (.pst) or an Offline Folders file (.ost) to store your mail and other data. If the file becomes damaged for some reason, there are tools available that may be able to repair it.
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by Alex Censor
Microsoft Outlook (not “Outlook Express”), part of Microsoft Office, is widely used for sending, receiving, and filing email, email addresses, and even scheduling events.
If you store many older emails in it, especially those with attachments, be warned:
Outlook, for versions prior to 2003, tends to corrupt (and lose everything) if the total size of stored email exceeds 2GB (2048MB).
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by David Hakala
It’s not difficult to find a specific Contact in any version of Outlook. Just use the “search address books” box in the top-right portion of the main screen. But what if you want to find all business or family contacts so you can send out a request for a quote or an invitation to Sunday dinner? That’s where Categories come in handy.
Go to the Contacts view of Outlook by clicking on “Contact” in the lower-left corner of the main screen. Under “Current View” in the left-hand pane, check the radio button “By Category.”
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by David Hakala
You may want to get rid of Outlook Express if you do not use it for email. It is a weakness in your system’s security perimeter, a favorite target of hackers. Much malware targets Outlook Express because Outlook Express has been around since 1998, is installed automatically on every machine running Windows 98 to Windows XP, and is so devilishly difficult to remove that very few people take the trouble. To remove Outlook Express manually you must:
Rename three folders, for every user account on the system
Find and delete seven registry keys
Rename 17 files twice, for they are in two folders
Most people would rather pull out their toenails one by one. Outlook Express consumes a trivial 190 KB of disk space so they leave it alone. The back door for hackers remains open and unnoticed. Here is how to close it easily:
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by David Strom
I am going to show you how to use the free Yahoo Groups service for your email list needs. It takes about 30 minutes to set up and it is easy and free to use.
First, you need to set up an account with Yahoo, even if you don’t plan on using their email system for individual emails. Then you create a new group by going to Yahoogroups.com and clicking on the Start Your Group link on the top right corner. You then give your group a category, a subcategory, and pick a name.
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by David Strom
Years ago, people paid good money to set up their Internet email servers. But now, thanks to Google, you can host your email server for next to nothing. Now, this is different from what a registrar does or what an Internet provider does when they host your Web site and other services. Google is good for just email purposes.
Go to google.com/a and read the instructions about some of the other services that they offer and then click on the Get Started button. You will see that there are three plans provided: a free standard edition, a premier edition that costs $50 a year, and a free education edition. What are the differences?
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