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Gmail for Android Moves to 4.2, adds more features

Gmail, along with other Google services, is a core part of the company's Android operating system for phones and tablets. Today the popular email service got a much needed update with a […]

Too many devices syncing with Microsoft account reports

Reports are coming in that some Microsoft account users who use the company's mail clients are receiving errors related to a device synchronization limit that they have reached. Depending on the device […]

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Gmail: sending large files using Google Drive

Mail servers may reject emails that cross a certain size threshold due to mail attachments that are included in the email. The threshold is usually in the 20 Megabyte region but it […]

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How to make sure Gmail emails never land in spam

Google has spam mostly under control on Gmail, and most users of the email service have to deal with spam only rarely when they use it. You may however run into situations […]

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Thunderbird 17 released, find out what's new

Thunderbird 17.0 is the last release of the email client before Mozilla's de-prioritization of the client takes effect. What this means is that Mozilla is assigning engineers that maintained various Thunderbird related […]

Gmail advanced search parameters

Google's email service Gmail, or Google Mail, supports a variety of advanced search parameters which have not been documented that well until now. Recently it became known for instance that emails can […]

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Filter Gmail email messages by size

If you need to find large attachments on Gmail quickly, you have a few options at your disposal. You can for instance use the Find Big Email service which automatically goes through […]

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Google modifies compose in Gmail

Google a few minutes ago announced a change affecting their popular email service Gmail. The change affects how you compose emails when you use the interface on the Google Mail website. Previously, […]

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Firefox 16.0.2, Thunderbird 16.0.2 released

Mozilla is currently in the process of rolling out an update for the stable version of Firefox that is brining the web browser to version 16.0.2 This is in fact the second […]

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How to restore the menu header in Thunderbird 17

Thunderbird 17 is currently offered as a beta version. If you have installed the upcoming version of the email client on your system, you may have noticed the new look of the […]

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Manage email subjects in Thunderbird

If you are sending out emails with the same subject line often, you may find Subject Manager for Thunderbird helpful in this regard. The extension for the desktop email client not only […]

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Make Thunderbird the chat powerhouse: add chat protocols

Mozilla added chat capabilities to Thunderbird 15, the latest stable version of the desktop email client. This basically enabled Thunderbird users to add various support chat networks to the client to chat […]

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Thunderbird's future may look like this

Mozilla's announcement that the Thunderbird desktop email client would be moved to the bottom of the organzation's priority list came as a shock to the community as it was one of the […]

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Gmail addon to share files from, send files to SkyDrive

Microsoft in preparation of the Windows 8 launch has evaluated all of its products to sort out some and focus on others. One of the products that the company has moved into […]

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Hide the user agent when sending emails with Thunderbird

Thunderbird, and other mail clients as well, include information in each email you sent that reveal information about your operating system, the mail program and the version of it that you are […]

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Thunderbird: Dropbox Filelink integration now available as an extension

Thunderbird's Filelink feature is one of the recent features of the email client that I really like. It basically allows you to replace email attachments with links that point to file hosts […]

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Gmail: advanced search autocomplete predictions and three labs graduations

If you are accessing your Gmail account in a web browser you have probably noticed that Google has been busy lately adding new features to its Google Mail service. It was just […]

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Outlook.com can Connect to your Facebook and Twitter Accounts

Microsoft rolled out Outlook.com recently and it's slated to eventually replace the aging and reputation-challenged Hotmail service.  For now, users can choose to upgrade or not, but eventually it will become required. […]

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How to recover deleted Gmail messages

Things can go wrong when you are working with a computer or relying on a set of data, and it does not necessarily have to be your fault to begin with. Emails […]

Thunderbird to get silent and background updates in coming version

Are you still using the Thunderbird email client or have you switched to another desktop email program after Mozilla's announcement that it would move the application to the end of its priority […]

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How to add email accounts to Windows 8's Mail app

I have added an Outlook test account to the Windows 8 Mail app shortly after I have installed the Windows 8 RTM from TechNet on my second desktop PC. What I did […]

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Configuring Outlook.com for maximum security and privacy

We have reviewed Microsoft's new mail service Outlook.com a few days ago, and even explained how you can migrate your Gmail emails and contacts to the new service. Today, I would like […]

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How to migrate your email from Gmail.com to Outlook.com

Microsoft launched the new outlook.com mail interface on the last day of July 2012 with the intention to replace its traditional email service Hotmail with the new service eventually. Hotmail users currently […]

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Shortcuts for Gmail: Learn Gmail hotkeys on the fly in Chrome

Remember KeyRocket? A free for personal use application for Windows that is helping you learn keyboard shortcuts while you use supported programs such as Microsoft Office or Windows Explorer. The developer team […]

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Microsoft pushes out Outlook.com mail preview

Todays craze in the tech world is Microsoft's launch of outlook.com, a preview of an email service that may replace Hotmail eventually, or act as a completely independent service. No on knows […]

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Google replaces Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts

It is becoming apparent that Google is pushing its Google+ networking service with all of its might into the market. I'm not saying that Google+ is a bad service, or that it […]

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You've Got Mail: I just created an AOL Mail account

AOL, which was previously known as America Online, announced today that they have released an update for their mail service AOL Mail. According to AOL, that email service has 24 million users […]

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Add experimental Dropbox support to Mozilla Thunderbird

If you are a user of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are probably aware by now of the program's Filelink feature that allows you to upload files that you want to […]

A look at Thunderbird's not so distant future

Mozilla's de-prioritization of Thunderbird was a shock to many of the clients active users who feared that development would come to a complete halt in the near future. While that is apparently […]

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Thunderbird 15 Beta with Australis user interface released

A new beta release of the desktop email client Thunderbird has been released with feature improvements despite Mozilla's announcement that it has moved Thunderbird to the bottom of  Mozilla's project priority list.Existing […]

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DreamMail Email Client Review

Last week Mozilla announced that development of the Thunderbird desktop email client was not the company's highest priority anymore. While that does not mean that development will stop completely at this point, […]

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Thunderbird Alternative Opera Mail

Having used Thunderbird for several years I was quite disappointed by Mozilla's announcement to move development priorities to other projects. While that does not mean that Thunderbird will be discontinued anytime soon, […]

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Why I prefer desktop email clients over web-based services

With Mozilla's announcement that the company would put Thunderbird development on a backburner to concentrate on Firefox OS and other projects that it has identified as "pursue-worthy", came two user reactions. The […]

Mozilla: Thunderbird's not our priority anymore

News broke earlier today that Mozilla had a huge announcement concerning the email client Thunderbird to make. Initially the news would have been released on Monday, but since it leaked early, the […]

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How to add a custom photo background to Gmail

Gmail back in 2008 launched a themes engine that allowed users of the service's web client to change the black and white design of the site to something that at times looked […]

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Hotmail's Redesign, Microsoft Goes all in on Metro

I'm not a huge fan of Hotmail's current layout and design, as I feel it is rather messy, and that this is keeping me from working effectively with the web mail client. […]

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The Ultimate Disposable Email Provider List (2017 update)

Back in 2007 I re-published a list of 20 temporary email services which proved to be useful to a lot of people. As time passed by, some of the services mentioned in […]

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MailStore Home 7.0: Email Archiving Software

The one and only program that I use for all my email archiving - or backup - needs is MailStore Home. The core reasons for this are that it is dead easy […]

Mozilla Thunderbird 12 Slow? Try This Fix!

If you are using Mozilla's Thunderbird email client on a desktop computer, you probably have updated to version 12 of the client when the new version came out. Shortly thereafter, Thunderbird was […]

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How To Open Winmail.dat Attachments

If you are not using Microsoft Outlook as your mail email client on your computer system, you may have noticed that you sometimes receive winmail.dat attachments sent by Outlook clients to your […]