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How to Check Your Mailbox Size in Microsoft Outlook 2010

If you are using the well know and widely used email program – MS Outlook 2010 or the latest version, you might be enjoying its whole bunch of features. Indeed the product has evolved so much over the years. However, you need to monitor the size of your mailboxes so that they don’t get bloated over time. This is especially true if you have email accounts set up as POP or POP3. In MS Outlook, you have the option to add several email accounts. These email accounts also have the… Read More

Outlook Tip: Moving sent emails to Inbox

When you are using MS Outlook of any version (2003, 2007, 2010, etc.), it is a common experience that when you send an email, a copy of the sent email is saved in the Sent Items folder. This is the default behavior. What if you want Outlook to move it to your Inbox folder so that you can keep an eye on the progress of your communication? If you are using MS Outlook in a business setup, you might want to place the sent email to your Inbox. For what… Read More

My Hotmail emails are shown as a group of emails. How can I show them individually?

If you have been using Hotmail for a long time and you are now faced with the new Outlook.com interface, with its great feature set, you might be overwhelmed. One important feature in particular, you might be complaining about your emails stacked in groups. This is called “conversation” mode of display. Compared to the old classic Hotmail, when people sends you emails and you reply to each of them, each email received is listed individually. With this new Outlook.com feature, it is now listed in “conversation” view. See the screen… Read More

How to configure Gmail for POP3 and IMAP

When you are using a FREE version of Gmail, you can still add it to an email program like MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010, Mozilla Thunderbird and other email clients and be able to send and receive emails from their using POP3, SMTP and IMAP. Unlike Yahoo Mail, only paid versions called Yahoo Mail Plus can be added to a POP email client. If you want to add your Gmail account to your email client, whether it is MS Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, Mozilla Thunderbird or others, you need to first configure… Read More

How to share your Outlook.com or Hotmail.com Calendar

The calendar apps is now a built-in apps in computers and in other handy techy gadgets like tablets and smartphones. This means that you can easily have a calendar app in your device. This article describes how you can share your Hotmail or Outlook.com calendar. Reasons to Use a Calendar App Many people are using smart gadgets with free built-in calendar application but they did not even know about it. As a result, they just left the app unused. Here are some reasons why Calendars are useful in today’s inteconnected… Read More

How to Uninstall Windows Live Mail 2012

If you are using the latest version of Windows Live Mail – WLM 2012, then that is a good choice. Besides being free, it has a lot of features nearly comparable to commercial email clients like Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010. However, as you use it and your email accumulates, and when you install Windows Updates or MS Office updates, Windows Live Mail can behave erratically as an effect. Since Windows Live Mail 2012 is a Windows application, it is affected mostly by the changes you make in your Windows Operating System…. Read More

How to retrieve stored email passwords in Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the widely used email client today. Besides being free, it is fast, stable and reliable. However, as an email client, there are still people who want to access their emails in two ways: 1) using Thunderbird and 2) using a web browser. Using a web browser to access your email is very important for portability. Suppose that your Thunderbird is installed in your home desktop. When you are away from home, you need to use the web browser to access your emails outside Thunderbird. What… Read More

How to update email passwords in Mozilla Thunderbird

Like any other email “client” or email program, Mozilla Thunderbird, which is used by several millions of users on Windows, Mac or Linux, offers remembering the passwords for your email accounts. In the recent release of Thunderbird, it stores passwords for all email servers individually for every email account like POP3, SMTP and IMAP servers.  If you have been using Thunderbird just recently of for many years already, you will notice that accessing the saved passwords for each email account is definitely not as easy as you would do in… Read More

MS Outlook: How to remove published calendars to stop Outlook prompt to sign in

There are a lot of MS Outlook users that are using calendar for their various calendaring activities. However, due to various sync problems especially when calendars are published online and accessed by multiple devices, MS Outlook can become erratic. Though these procedures were done using Outlook 2007 and 2010, they could still be applicable in the newer versions of Outlook. One major problem with MS Outlook calendars is when a Windows Security pop up appears asking you to enter your username and password. And when you attempt to sign in,… Read More