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How E-Mail Works
People use email every day, but don’t really understand how it works, assuming it is too technical. The concept of email is quite simple. Just as you don’t have to know how to fix a USPS delivery vehicle [more…]
How to Leave a Copy of E-mail on the Server
In the standard email scheme of things, whenever your email program picks up new mail, the mail is sent to your computer and then deleted from the server. This keeps the server “clean” no matter how many [more…]
How to Deal with Draft E-Mails
Most email clients feature folders into which you can stuff your email messages. The folders are named Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Deleted Items or Trash, Junk, and Drafts. It’s the Drafts mailbox that seems [more…]
How to Set Options for Emptying E-Mail Trash
The Deleted Items or Trash mail folder works like all other folders in your email program: It stores messages. The messages sit in the folder and aren’t deleted until you direct the program to purge them [more…]
How to Block an E-Mail Sender
Whether it’s unwanted email, spam, junk mail, or perhaps a persistent relative or acquaintance who won’t stop sending you “cute” stuff, most email programs have an easy way to block them. Perhaps the quickest [more…]
How to Unblock an E-Mail Sender
The Blocked Senders tool was a welcome addition to the email programs that ship with Windows. It worked! Sometimes, it worked too well. The biggest problem people had with it was blocking people they didn’t [more…]
How to Configure Junk Mail
Junk filters use formidable logic and magical incantations to identify the telltale signs of spam. Or, you can train them to identify email you don’t want. It all depends on how your email program implements [more…]
How to Create a Junk Mail Filter
Nearly all email programs feature a standard message-filtering system. You use this system to organize your email, such as by transferring business messages into a Work mailbox, but you can also use the [more…]
How to Edit a Junk Mail Rule
Rules may need refining from time to time. New rules are necessary for unwanted email; they not only make the junk mail filters more powerful but also help them rule out false positives. On the other hand [more…]
How to Repair Hyperlinks in Outlook Express
A problem that plagued users of Outlook Express for generations was the bad-hyperlink conundrum. Most sophisticated email programs display as a clickable link any text that looks like a web page or an [more…]
How to E-Mail a File
One of the simplest e-mail operations you can perform is to send someone a file. You don’t actually send a file. You create an e-mail message and attach the file to the message. When you send the message [more…]
How to E-Mail a Photo in Windows E-Mail Programs
The most common kind of file to e-mail is a photo and the easiest way to do it is overlooked by far too many people. Follow these steps to e-mail a picture file the easy way: [more…]
How to Choose the Right File Format When E-Mailing Photos
An important factor to note when sending an image is to send it in the proper graphics file format. Not all images have the same format. As computer graphics have evolved and various image editors developed [more…]
How to Save an E-Mail Attachment
A good chunk of the e-mail you receive will likely have attachments tagging along. Depending on your e-mail program, you may see the attachments directly in the message: The images appear, and perhaps [more…]
How to Get Started with Windows Live Mail
Send and receive e-mail with Microsoft's free downloadable e-mail program. Install Windows Live Mail and use the e-mail address you have set up with Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! mail, or another popular e-mail [more…]
