Articles about email and related topics
As always, I love to change the look of programs; you need to make it your own and show your personality! As in some of my other articles, “How To Change Twitter Theme Colors,” “How To Change Facebook Colors In Chrome,” and “How To Change […]
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Retention Policy This is something I never knew Mozilla did until I started looking for an old eMail and could not find it. For some unknown reason, after a month or two my Inbox and Trash messages would disappear. It was either my wife deleting them,
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Signatures in Thunderbird Recently I have been wondering how I could get an eMail signature to appear in replies and forwarded eMail. When I write an eMail, the signature is always there, but when I’m responding/replying to an eMail, it is not. This is frustrating when
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Have you ever received an eMail from someone you do not want one from? I know I do, and many of my clients do, too. It can be very frustrating receiving messages from unwanted senders. The best way to deal with this is to block
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If you spend enough time online, sooner or later you’ll wish you had a disposable eMail account, or, a way to track whether or not someone has “shared” your eMail address. Maybe you want to subscribe to a mailing list for a weekly newsletter about
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Security Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker in a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained accounts
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2-Step Verification Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker on a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained
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The Problem Recently, I updated my Mozilla Thunderbird eMail application to the most up-to-date version. We have all done this, or at least, the eMail application has automatically done it for you. The one thing I noticed after the update is that when composing an
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Your eMail Address Is Precious Often times, giving out your primary email address online isn’t such a good idea. It can be a leap of faith. You’re trusting the entity you’re giving it to won’t SPAM you, sell your address to 40 different email marketers,
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If you use Windows Live Mail to manage emails from an outlook.com or hotmail.com account you’ve probably recently received an email from Microsoft announcing forthcoming changes that will prevent the system from working properly and exhorting you to either install a patch (download link included)
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It is time for a “How to” since I haven’t given you one in a while. I’m all about making things your own, either by building it yourself or throwing some paint on someone else’s stuff. With the holidays here and Star Wars coming out
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Face it. For many of us, email is a necessary evil. If you’re getting crammed with spam, nuked by newsletters or just plain inundated by work or personal email – join the club. We all want to fix it, clean it, and make it easier
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Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is
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Do you remember Outlook Express? Of course you do, but that’s not the point here. There are times when you fix a computer and like some demented homing pigeon, the damn thing keeps coming back again as if it’s possessed. Well, this is exactly what
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