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Can GMail be traced?

Can I count on mail to a bad address bouncing back?
If you send email to an invalid address or a closed account, usually you'll get a bounce back. Usually. The problem is that you cannot count on bounces. (Continue reading...)

Can I prevent my mail from being forwarded by others?

Can I rename my Hotmail account?

Can I tell if email I sent has been read by the recipient?

Can I tell where these virus emails are coming from?

Can a sender tell where I'm reading my mail?

Does spam blocking prevent spam from reaching my machine?

Email I was composing has disappeared. Can I get it back?

How can I archive email in my free email account?

How can I keep my email safe from sniffing?

How can I organize incoming email from two accounts?

How can I read my email on more than one machine?

How can I stop a message in my Outlook outbox that won't send?
Once a message goes into your outbox, Outlook tries to send it. While it's trying, there's little you can do. So the trick is to force it to stop trying. (Continue reading...)

How can I trace where email came from?

How do I Find Someone's Email Address?
It's difficult to find the email address of someone you want to contact. In order to find the email address, they must want to be found. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my MSN HotMail Secret Question?

How do I change my MSN Hotmail password if I forgot it?
Need to change your Hotmail password, but you forgot it? There are a couple of ways to change your Hotmail password - if you set things up properly when you created the account. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my MSN Hotmail password?
Changing your MSN Hotmail password with step-by-step instructions. Changing your Hotmail password is easy, and you should do it regularly. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my POP3 account password?

How do I change my email address?
Depending on the email service you're using and how much effort you want to put into it, changing your email address can either be fairly easy or fairly hard. (Continue reading...)

How do I change the "mailto:" or default mail program?
The 'mailto:' or default mail program is a concept maintained by Windows and changed using Internet Explorer. Usually. We examine how to change the default mail program to a couple of popular services. (Continue reading...)

How do I change the size of my email display text?

How do I control which email accounts Outlook tries to download?

How do I forward my old email address?

How do I get attached pictures to show in the body of email I've received?

How do I hide the email addresses I'm sending to on a message?
It's possible to send email to someone without having their email address show up on the To: or Cc: lines by using Blind Carbon Copy or Bcc. (Continue reading...)

How do I keep attached photos out of an email's message body?

How do I know if someone is opening my email before I read it, then marking it as unread?
Without installing keystroke logging or other spyware on your computer, there's no way to tell if anyone is reading your emails before you do. (Continue reading...)

How do I print an email with its attachments?

How do I remove addresses from an email message for printing or forwarding?
Removing the addresses from an email you're forwarding or printing should be easy - and for forwarding it is. For printing, a few tricks are needed. (Continue reading...)

How do I resolve my Hotmail email problems?

How do I resolve my MSN Hotmail sign in problems?

How do I send email to another machine on my local network without hitting the internet?
Sending email from one machine to another on the same network seems like it should be simple and direct. Sadly, it's neither. (Continue reading...)

How do I send encrypted email?

How do I separate emails I receive on a single account?

How do I set up an email newsletter?
Email newsletters are important to both business and social communication. Setting one up properly is key to acceptance and to avoid being a spammer. (Continue reading...)

How do I view full mail headers in Outlook?

How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate?
Even though they share similar names and do similar things, Outlook and Outlook Express are actually not related to each other at all. (Continue reading...)

How long will I get email from an inactive account?
Though inactive Hotmail accounts are open for a some time before they're closed, spammers can make it appear as though an account is still active. (Continue reading...)

I get "Error Number: 0x800CCC19" when sending email - how do I fix it?
Error Number 0x800CCC19 is a timeout, which can be caused by many things. Most common appears to be interference by your anti-virus program. (Continue reading...)

I've forgotten the answer to my MSN Hotmail secret question, *and* my password, what do I do?

Is it really that easy to get someone's password?

Is there a way to retrieve my email history after I've deleted them?
There are things to enable ahead of time if you would like to save your email history, but if they are not enabled then your emails are gone for good. (Continue reading...)

Just how secure is email, anyway?

Links in HotMail emails: why aren't they active?
Links in HotMail emails are often disabled to protect you. I'll look at how to enable Links in Hotmail, and how to work around it even when not enabled. (Continue reading...)

Messages deleted on HotMail: can I get them back somehow?
Once messages are permanently deleted on HotMail they're gone. If you've lost important messages that were deleted on HotMail, or any webmail service, you need to rethink your approach to email. (Continue reading...)

My MSN sent mail isn't showing up in the sent mail folder. Is it somewhere else?
Check to see if the option to save your sent MSN emails is enabled if you aren't seeing any in your "Sent" email folder. (Continue reading...)

Outlook Express Problems: My folders are empty, corrupted or just not working - what do I do?
Outlook Express Problems, including folder corruption, can manifest in several ways. I've found a good article on Outlook Express folder corruption, and steps to take to avoid, and recover from it. (Continue reading...)

Outlook error 0x800ccc0d - how do I fix it?
Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d is simply a failure to connect - that's in the error message. How to fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d involves a little investigation. (Continue reading...)

Phishing? What's Phishing?
Phishing is a way that internet scammers trick you into providing your personal and financial details. Phishing opens the door to identity theft, and more. (Continue reading...)

Should I Leave AOL?

What does "conversation timed out" mean in an email bounce?
Occasionally email will bounce with the error "timed out". We'll look at what that does, and does not, tell us, and what might be the real problem. (Continue reading...)

What for-pay email providers do you recommend?
People often use free email providers for critical data only to lose everything when a problem occurs. So what do you look for in an email provider? (Continue reading...)

What is "greylisting"?

What is POP? Or POP3? Or a POP account? And what about SMTP?

What is an "SNM" file?
An SNM file is simply a Netscape mail email message file. (Continue reading...)

What's the difference between "plain text" and "HTML" email?

What's the difference between Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail?
Microsoft has created a lot of confusion with how it names its mail products. Add the transition from MSN to Windows Live branding and it gets worse. (Continue reading...)

What's this backwards P all over my email?
A backwards P is probably a paragraph mark. If you're seeing a backwards P it's easy to turn off, but also tells me you should change something else too. (Continue reading...)

What's this confirmation request I got when I emailed someone?

Where are these viruses coming from?
Email viruses come from many sources, usually from other machines infected with a virus. There are clues in email headers, but that's often incomplete. (Continue reading...)

Where's the Sent Items folder in Outlook Express?
The Sent Items folder isn't always visible in Outlook Express. We'll look at the options to make the Sent Items folder visible, and make sure that Sent Items are getting placed there. (Continue reading...)

Why am I not getting all messages sent to the mailing list I'm on?
Mailing list messages represent a conversation between members that has a natural order. It can be very confusing when some mailing list messages arrive out of order, or not at all. (Continue reading...)

Why can't I email this movie?
Emailing movies is very tempting, because it's simple. Unfortunately emailing movies and other large files often fails. We'll look at a couple of alternatives. (Continue reading...)

Why can't I put my email on CD?
Burning email folders to CD is a reasonable way to archive email and free up space - until you want to read it. Then additional steps are needed. (Continue reading...)

Why can't I send email from all my accounts?

Why can't I send mail from my hotel room?

Why can't my guest send email using my LAN?

Why did I get a password reminder I didn't ask for?
A password reminder that isn't expected can be startling. An unexpected password reminder could be due to many things. The best thing is to ignore it. (Continue reading...)

Why do pictures in email sometimes show up in-line, and sometimes as attachments?
Pictures in email don't always display. The reasons pictures in email don't display are many, and confusing. We'll look at some of the factors. (Continue reading...)

Why do the changes I've made to a document that was emailed to me disappear?
Due to complexity of attachments in emails, changes you've made to a document that was emailed to you can disappear. (Continue reading...)

Why does email take so long to be delivered sometimes?

Why does my email sometimes show up with funny characters like "=0D" in it?

Why does my laptop bounce email?

Why don't pictures show up in the emails I send or receive?
There are a few reasons as to why pictures won't show in the emails you send or receive. (Continue reading...)

Why is Outlook sending email using the wrong account?

Why is attaching a Word document to email such a bad idea?

Why is my email being immediately deleted?

Why is my friend getting two copies of my mail?
Getting multiple copies of email is most often a problem at the receiving end. We'll look at both sending and receiving, and the most common causes. (Continue reading...)

Why is my mail to HotMail (or AOL, Yahoo, etc.) subscribers not being delivered?
Mail not being delivered is an unfortunately common problem. There's no magic answer, but I'll look at some of the reasons your mail not be delivered. (Continue reading...)

Why is the time on my email wrong?
Email is timestamped by the program that creates it. Normally Window's time, date and time zone are used. Web services, however, need a little more. (Continue reading...)

Why is there so much spam?

Why is using Hotmail for my business such a bad idea?
Many small business uses free email services such as Hotmail as a shortcut or cost saving measure. Unfortunately it can costs them business in the long run. (Continue reading...)

Why shouldn't I use the "Report Spam" or "Junk" button?

Will I lose my email if I don't check it for a while?

Will receiving large attachments eat up all my disk space?

Would you please recover my password? My account has been hacked or I've forgotten it.
I'm asked daily to reset lost passwords, recover hacked email accounts or retrieve lost information in them. Here's my answer. (Continue reading...)