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Top 20 Most Popular Email Tips, Tricks and Secrets

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Learn something new about spam, find clever tricks for your email program or service and discover amazing secrets. Here are the ten most popular email tips. (Updated 08/20/08)

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Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.

2. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail via POP or IMAP with IzyMail

IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.

3. How to Close Your Yahoo! Mail Account

Terminate your Yahoo! Mail account, delete all messages, cover up your traces.

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Your Yahoo! Mail account is not made for the web alone. Here's how to download mail from a free Yahoo! Mail address into Outlook — and how to send through Yahoo! Mail, too.

5. How to Send Email from a PHP Script

One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.

6. How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail

Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.

7. How to Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with Outlook Express

Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.

8. How to Change Your Gmail Password

Make it difficult for hackers to break into your Gmail account for any extended period of time by changing your password periodically.

9. How to Forward Windows Live Hotmail Email to Another Hotmail or Email Account

Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).

10. How to Set Up an Out of Office Vacation Auto-Reply in Outlook

While you are away from the computer, Outlook can automatically reply to incoming mail with a pre-written message telling senders when you’ll be able to reply individually.

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