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My Outlook.com (Hotmail) account is flooded with notifications. Is there a way to automatically delete notifications?

Using the NEW Hotmail interface known as Outlook.com with its “Microsoft blue” theme, several cool features are worth using. Among these features is the automatic deletion of emails from a specific contact in a given period of time. This is known as the “Scheduled Cleanup”. This is specially useful if you are getting a daily emails and you don’t want to block them nor automatically archive them. Thus, you can setup a schedule to delete the emails in a “scheduled” manner. This also helps in keeping your Inbox in good… Read More

How to auto-forward your Hotmail emails to another email account

If you have multiple email accounts, managing them is tricky and critical. It is tricky because you need to manage these email accounts, read their mails and respond to them and this is tedious if you have several email accounts with various sets of contacts. It is critical because it is easy to forget the passwords of these accounts and writing your passwords in a sheet of paper to keep track of your passwords is not a safe practice as well as using a single or the same password for… Read More

How to Add or Update Your Security Information in Your Yahoo Mail Account

There are several thousands of Yahoo Mail accounts that are being compromised every single day. To easily recover your Yahoo Mail account after an unfortunate email compromise, you need to update your security information in your Yahoo Mail to ensure account recovery. NOTE: If you are reading this post and your Yahoo Mail account was already compromised and therefore inaccessible, these procedures will not work for you. Please read this article on how to Recover your Yahoo Mail Account. Step 1: Sign in to your Yahoo Mail account using your web browser using this link: http://mail.yahoo.com…. Read More

How to Add or Update Security Information of Your AOL Email Account

Among the widely used and patronized email service in the world is AOL. It offers both free and paid service. Regardless of the type of account, still there are thousands of AOL accounts being compromised everyday. One perfect tool that helps you easily recover your AOL account in case it is being hacked is your updated security information. This includes an updated recovery email address, updated alternate email address and updated mobile phone number. When an email account is compromised, the very first recovery procedure is to reset the account… Read More

How to add and manage aliases in Hotmail.com / Outlook.com

When your email account ends with @Hotmail.com, @Live.com, or @MSN.com, it works on Outlook.com. Thus, there’s no need to change your address or get a new one. However, if you want to use an address that ends with @outlook.com, the best way is to add an alias to your existing account instead of creating a separate email address. Basically, an “alias” is an additional email address that uses the same inbox, contact list, and account settings as the primary alias, or the primary email account. Also, you can sign in to your account with any alias—they all use… Read More

How to Add or Update Security Information in Hotmail, Live, or Outlook Account

There are millions of people in the world use Hotmail, or its other Microsoft account variants like Live.com, or Outlook.com. Among these huge number of users, thousands of them have problems in accessing their account because of having forgotten their passwords or because their accounts were hacked. This is when security information come very useful. When you are unable to access your Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com, your very first and the fastest option to recover the account is to reset the password. By resetting, you will not be asked for… Read More

How to increase the default timeout settings in Mozilla Thunderbird

If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client in your Windows or Mac, you might need to do some tweak in the default settings of Thunderbird particularly, its default timeout setting. This setting is responsible in setting a limit of the connection or negotiation protocol that governs or affects your sending or receiving of emails. If you are sending an email with a huge attachment, it requires a longer time to complete the sending since the attachment needs to be uploaded first prior to sending. If the timeout… Read More

How to Change and Configure Gmail Inbox Behavior

Gmail is one of the widely used email account in the world today. It is fast, reliable and most of all, it is free. By default, Gmail comes with cool features that are readily available and is fitting to everyday email needs. With its pack of features, most people don’t even find a need to change how Gmail behaves. However, Gmail is also a very flexible email system. You can change many things and settings that affects how you use the email service. And one of the features that you… Read More

How to Avoid Email Scam and Spam

The email population is getting bigger as many people are getting or subscribing to an email account or accounts everyday. Also, there are several email providers today that allows people to create an email account with them for free. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL are among them. This is also the main reason why hackers and spammers are targeting emails since hundreds of millions of people are using emails. Therefore, with this great number of emails out there, the more email addresses that the hacker can scrape the web… Read More