There is always a danger that your emails are snatched on their way and be read. Luckily there are ways that you can use to make these emails unreadable by others on the way. In this article we shall see methods to secure your emails by encrypting them.

Assume that Jack is sending an email to Stella. This email can be read by anyone who has access to this email on the way. If Jack wants that no one else other than Stella should be able to read this email then what can he do? Here’s where pub...

In Microsoft Office suite of applications, MS Outlook has many great features that makes it your trusted personal manager. It does all the job of a personal assistant and more. But many do not use MS Outlook effectively. Many people think that it is just an Email Client. MS Outlook is not just an Email client but it is a Personal Information Manager (PIM). In this article let us see the main features in MS Outlook so that you can start using MS Outlook effectively.

Features in MS Outlook

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If you ask computer users what is the one thing that can’t forgo in life, their answers will be ‘email’. Yes, emails have become part and parcel of every computer user’s life. But if you want to use emails anywhere, anytime then definitely desktop computers cannot be of help. We cannot carry our desktops everywhere we go.

Can we use notebooks? Compared to desktop pcs, notebooks can be carried around easily. But notebooks needs a lot battery and therefore it can used only for a few hour...

POP3 is a term we come across very often when talking about emails. POP3 stands for ‘Post Office Protocol version 3″. This refers to the protocol used in receiving emails from an internet server.

If you are using any of the following email clients, Outlook express, Outlook, Netscapte mail or Eudora then you are using POP3. With POP3, the server receives all your emails and stores it in the server. You can connect to this server and download all your emails to your computer and then read it...

Many websites provide email services. Some provide free email accounts and some provide paid emails. However, some email providers provide value added email services. In this article let us see such unique email providers.

Can you cancel the email that you send? Imagine that you have sent a harsh email to your friend in anger. You may have typed many stupid things in the email since you were very very upset. But after a while you feel that you shouldn’t have sent this email and you want to c...

The use of emails has become very much essential in personal and business life. Email has become more important than the phone or address of a person. When two people meet for the first time it is very common to exchange their email addresses for communication next time.

Daily we receive many different types of emails. Advertisements about products, emails requesting help, emails from adult websites, emails claiming that you have won a lottery or a prize, Or even emails from some country that ...

Imagine that you are writing a letter in a post card for your friend. Since a post card is open, anybody can read what you have written. The post man can read it.

Just like the information in post card, email content is also open. Anybody can read it. The email you send goes through many computers and routers. It is possible that those computer and router users can read your email just for fun or even purposely.

Not only in Internet, even in your own network other people can read your emails. A...

When you write letters to other people you put your signature at the bottom. You can also add a signature to all your emails before sending.

Whether you use free webmails such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc or you use POP3 based emails such as the one provided by your internet service provider, you can add your signature to the email you send using these email services.

Generally as far as emails are concerned, a signature doesn’t refer to your personal signature that you put on your cheques. I...

Usually we don’t delete the emails that we receive. We just keep it thinking we may need it in the future. Even if we deleted the SPAM and unwanted emails, there are still so many emails that keeps accumulating. After a while, if you want to search for a particular mail, then it becomes very difficult to find the mail we want. When the same person sends many emails, to find the email we are looking for in that long list, takes a lot of time. But there is a way. You can sort these emails. If...

Yes, it is possible. MS Outlook makes it possible for you. In MS Outlook you can create your own message folders,...

Due to the wide use of computers and internet, the dangers that come with their usage is also increasing. Today emails are very useful in many ways. But the same emails bring us many problems and make us lose money. My friend once received an email from his bank. He was curious why his bank would send an email to him and opened that email.

In that email it was mentioned that he was selected and won a car worth $20,000. Therefore in order to register the car in his name and deliver to him they ...

Sometimes the email that we receive may contain text in other languages. In one of the emails that I received there were words that contained English alphabets but in an unknown language. Inside the mail there was also a boquaet of flowers. After looking at the sender’s email it was confirmed that the mail was a SPAM. Though the obvious thing to do next was to delete the email, out of curiosity I wanted to know the contents of the email. So I copied the contents (by Ctrl + C) and went to ww...

We know that any computer file can be attached to an email and sent. Text files, Audio files, Video files or MS word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint files are some of the files that can be attached to an email as attachments.

These attachments use the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) format to send these attachments. MIME is used to send audio, video and image files. MIME protocol converts these binary format to text format and sends the file to the recipient. The email client s...

In Google’s Gmail website there are many short cut keys. But it is difficult to remember all these short cut keys. To solve this issue a new keyboard is now commercially available. This keyboard costs 19.99 USD.

There are 19 keys in this keyboard and looks like a number keypad. Each key represents a shortcut key. For example to mark a message with a star (favourites), or to initiate a search, to go inside the message threads etc can be achieved by just a click of a button. This keyboard can...