When it comes to the attitudes with which various people approach the concept of email we find highly fragmented groups, even within the confines of such a relatively small group like techies. Some of those who use and enjoy technology on a daily basis see email as a welcome and acceptable part of that electronic [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

There was a time when Yahoo! was the portal everyone went to for search and social groups online.  Sadly Google stole the company’s crown and now Yahoo! has even slipped into third place in search behind Microsoft’s Bing engine.  Now though Yahoo! is releasing new upgraded services in an effort to make itself cool again [...]

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Big companies are not only currently competing with each other in the search engine niche but also when it comes to webmail. It’s actually the same three companies – that is Yahoo, Microsoft and Google – that provide both search engine and web mail services. One of the latest areas of interest for web mail [...]

Categories: Email, The Web

Do not publish your email on the Internet. That’s is one of the first lessons to learn when you start using the Internet. Once your email has been cached by a search engine it will sooner or later be discovered by bots that crawl the Internet for this valuable information. All kinds of protection have [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

Retrieving all mail headers from the emails that are currently stored on the mail server can be necessary for several reasons. The first is that it is possible to delete mails without having to retrieve them completely. This can come in handy if mails with huge attachments are blocking the retrieval of other emails which [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

Emails can be send to several recipients at once by using the CC or BCC fields which send a Carbon Copy or Blind Carbon Copy to the recipients listed there. Using the BCC option is useful if you want that every recipient is only able to see his email address and not the email of everyone else who receives a message.

Categories: Email, Knowledge

There have been two drastic changes to Googles Gmail service in the last week. The first will probably make most users happy, gmail is not available to everyone. That is right, no more begging for invites, just visit the gmail site and signup for an account if you need one.

Categories: Email, The Web

I experienced some troubles installing files on my system and discovered that my partition with Windows was having only 50 megabytes of free space. This was astonishing because it is a 10 gigabyte partition with only Windows and some tools that occupy no more than 3 gigabytes. A quick check revealed that the mail folders from Thunderbird would occupy more than 3 gigabytes of space in the application data folder on the partition.

Categories: Email, Knowledge

It sometimes happens that I delete a mail by accident because it does look like spam or a message that I do not longer need. Thunderbird does not display that message anymore if it is completely deleted from the mail client. Unknown to many Thunderbird does not delete the messages but flags them only which means it is relatively easy to recover corrupted or deleted mails. This method only works if you have not compressed the mail folders because compressing removes deleted messages from the mail files.

Categories: Email, Knowledge