Email

• Blind Carbon Copy You can protect your friends email addresses by using the Blind Carbon Copy field. This works just like the Carbon Copy (cc:) field, except that the email addresses are not forwarded to each recipient.
• History Of Email - The First Message The first email message was sent by Ray Tomlinson.
• Email clients, including outlook, outlook express, eudora and netscape email There are many email clients on the market. Most of them are free or almost free, so choose based upon the features that you need.
  • Outlook Outlook is a fine email client, especially if you've already purchased Microsoft Office.
    • Outlook - Put in restricted zone Something that you should do right away is restrict Outlook to protect yourself from internet hazards.
    • Outlook - Rules to aid in automation The rules in Outlook 2000 can be used to file messages automatically and help combat spam
    • Outlook - Creating a signature Create a signature in Outlook to send a few lines along with every post.
  • Outlook Express A free, but very good, email client is called Outlook Express. This client comes with Internet Explorer and is fully featured
    • Outlook Express - Put in restricted zone Something that you should do right away is restrict Outlook Express to protect yourself from internet hazards.
    • Outlook Express - Signatures Outlook Express allows you to create signatures which can be sent with every email.
  • Outlook Stationery Both Outlook and Outlook Express support stationery files, which allow you to send very cool-looking email messages.
    • Creating Stationery Using Outlook Express 5 Lesson #1- Basics
    • Creating Stationery Using Outlook Express 5 Lesson #2- Stationery Wizard
    • Creating a New Message Using Outlook 2000 Stationery
    • Creating a New Message Using Outlook Express 5 Stationery
    • Outlook Stationery Links A list of some good sites which offer free downloads of outlook stationary. Enjoy.
• Email discussion lists Email discussion lists can be fun, but they can also create a lot of emails.
  • Unsubscribing from mailing lists Need to unsubscribe from a mailing list? Here are some instructions to help you with this task.
• Email message headers give you lots of information Email message headers give you an incredible amount of data about an email message. You can find out where it originated, who sent it, how it got to you and so on.
  • Bounced Email Messages The bounce message will tell you exactly why an email did not reach it's destination
  • SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the way most messages get send on the internet. Here's an overview of how it works.
• Email Etiquette These are some guidelines to help you get your email under control
• Email Communications Clarity of communicate in email is critical to the success of your message, and perhaps your overall success.
  • Email Etiquette These are some guidelines to help you get your email under control
  • Flames You cannot say you've lived on the internet until you've received a good flame. This article explains what they are and how to respond.
    • The Ultimate Flame It's insulting and not at all covert. It's the ultimate flame. Only read it if you can stand it. By the way, contains vulgarity.
  • Retention How long should email be kept on your server? That depends upon several factors.
  • Effective Email Communications This article includes some suggestions for creating email messages which communicate well.
• Pretty Good Privacy If you want to secure your emails, a product called Pretty Good Privacy is excellent and well established.
• SPAM Everyone hates SPAM, which is defined as unsolicited emails. It's the big villain of the net.
  • What is Spam Anyway? People call all kinds of things spam, but do they really know what it is?
  • What to do About Spam? Overwhelmed with spam? Here is what we had to do in order to cut ours down to manageable levels.
  • SPAM - How Spammers Get Your Email Address Ever wonder how spammers get hold of your email address no matter how careful you've been? Here are some of the ways.
  • SPAM - History This is the story of how spam came to be, how it got started and how it has evolved.
    • SPAM - DEC Mass Mailing
    • SPAM - First Mass Mailing
    • SPAM - First Commercial Spam
  • SPAM - Senate Bill 1618 The bottom line is 1618 is a myth used by scum spammers to make their emails appear to be valid. They want it to look like it is okay for them to send their emails. And if you happen to reply to get removed, why then you will find yourself on more and more spam lists.
  • SPAM - Correctly sending commercial emails Okay, now you've read all about spam. You should now how a crystal clear idea of what spam is and what it is not. Now an additional question begs to be asked - how to you send bulk email without it being spam?
  • SPAM - links
  • SPAM - Do not respond to spam Most spam messages will include a link at the bottom which states something like "to remove yourself from the list click here ...". On the surface this seems innocent enough, but if you do respond you are potentially increasing the amount of spam that you receive by many times.
  • SPAM - Spamcop There are three really nice sites which can help you with spam. Each of these offers a different service, each with it's own use.
  • SPAM - email spiders Some spiders are malignant and are used by spammers to harvest email addresses. These engines should be blocked or denied where possible, and you need to take steps to ensure that your addresses are not siphoned off into some spammers database.
  • SPAM - Spam Vigilantes It does not matter how well you do your job as regards spamming, at some point you will find yourself accused of being a lousy spammer. It is as inevitable as a politician lying or a psychiatrist sleeping with his patients.
  • SPAM - Sending Letters to representatives Tired of spam? Think you can do more to fight this evil? Send a letter to your congressman!
  • SPAM - Don't get mad, get even Got some time to kill? Need to find something to do? Perhaps even some money you don't need? Here's some ideas for you!
  • SPAM - Munging Your Email Address Need a quick and simple way to keep spammers from getting your email address? Try munging it.
  • SPAM - Spam Nonsense Some of the games the spammers play are actually quite amusing, once you realize they are happening.
  • SPAM - Poisoning The Spammer Want to whack a few spam spiders? Add a poison pill to your web site.
  • SPAM - Hiding Your Email Address Sometimes you may need to put your email address on your web pages. Here is a method for hiding it from the spam spiders.
    • Getting Email From Your Website One thing you can count on is the spammers email harvesting programs will get any and all emails from your web pages. How do you get communications from your visitors then?
  • SPAM - Monty Python Spam Song The words of the Monty Python Spam song
  • What happens to the spammers? Spammers, like all criminals, do eventually get caught. And the penalties are not light.
  • SPAM - Bozo Filters Bozo filters are one of the main methods you can use to control any spam that gets to your account.
  • Black Hole Death One of the most important set of players in the fight against spam are the black hole lists.
  • Self Sending Spam Sometimes clever spammers change the "From" address of an email to be the same as the "To" address. Here's why they do it.
  • Anti-spam Fanatics What's with the anti-spam fanatics? What are they trying to do, and why are they doing it?
  • It's Getting Ridiculous How much advertising does a person need? Apparently a lot because ads seem to be everywhere.
• Email Tips Here are some tips that will help you use email better.
  • Email Tips - Show headers for an email message Sometimes it's useful to look at the raw headers for an email message. Most commonly, this is needed to track down spam.
  • Email Tips- Add Contact Fast Need to add a contact to your address book? Here's how to do it.
  • Email Tips - Getting rid of the >'s Are you tired of lots of >'s in your email message replys and forwards? You can get rid of them.
  • Editing Messages Ever receive a message and want to make a comment? You can edit messages after you receive them.
  • Using Bcc Want to send messages to people without letting all of the other recipients know? You can use the Bcc field for this.
  • Signatures You can easily add signatures to your email messages. You can also set a default signature. Here's how.
• Web Email Web based email is very cool, usually free, and can be accessed from anywhere that you can browse the internet.
  • Free Email Accounts What kind of email account are you using? This article lists some of the advantages and disadvantages of the free variety.
• Email On The Road Email is critical to many people. So critical that many of us cannot even wait a single day to see our messages.
• How Private Is Your Email? Think your email is private? Think again. Your message is more like a postcard which anyone can read than a letter in an envelope.
  • Carnivore The FBI has created a tool to allow it to examine email messages at your ISP.
  • Content Filtering There is a new trend in corporations these days - the desire to censor emails based upon their content.
• Running Your Own Email Server Want to get control of your own email? Run your own server. There are tremendous advantages.
  • Email And DNS In order to make your email server operate properly, you must have your DNS correctly defined.
  • ArgoSoft The ArgoSoft Pro email server is a simple but extremely powerful program. It allows just about anyone to set up a fully functioned email server without much work or cost.
    • ArgoSoft Pro Installation Instructions ArgoSoft Pro is trivial to install. This is how it's done.
    • Security One of the most important tasks when you set up your email server is to ensure it is secure. Don't wait to do this and be sure you do a good job.
    • AntiSpam ArgoSoft has some simple mechanisms to help you control spam. This is a description of what we did to cut our spam down quite a bit.
    • Defining Domains in ArgoSoft One of the advantages of ArgoSoft Pro is you can define lots of domains. Here's how to do it.
    • Defining Users in ArgoSoft Each domain defined in Argosoft can have as many users as you need.
    • ArgoSoft Autoresponders Need autoresponders? ArgoSoft Pro has some decent autoresponse capabilities.
    • ArgoSoft Mailing Lists ArgoSoft Pro has a decent mailing list function. Here's how to use it.
    • Backing Up ArgoSoft You have probably done a lot of work configuring and maintaining your email server. Perhaps you should back it up.
  • Exchange 2000 There are several corporate email packages available. Exchange 2000 is one of these, and it's advantage is it is robust, expandable and stable.
    • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Installation Instructions Installing Microsoft Exchange 2000 is actually easy, but from the documentation you wouldn't think so.
    • Exchange 2000 Users Here's how to creating and maintain user accounts in Exchange 2000.
    • Exchange 2000 SMTP Setting up Exchange 2000 so it recognizes SMTP addresses and can send to other SMTP email servers it simple and straightforward.
    • Exchange 2000 Public Folders Exchange 2000 allows you to create folders which are shared among your users. This is a very, very useful feature.
    • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Backup You'd better be concerned about backing up your exchange data. Here's how to do it.
      • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Restore Here is how you use the NTBACKUP utility to restore your exchange (and system) data.
    • Exchange 2000 Reorg In order to maintain optimum performance, you must occasionally reorganize your exchange databases.
  • MailShield These days, if you run your own email server you had better handle the spam. Otherwise it will swamp you fast.
  • Antivirus Virus outbreaks are nasty. I went to extreme lengths to protect my wife and myself from them.
    • Norton Antivirus For Gateways You had better be sure you've totally and completely handled viruses, or you could be caught short.
• Utilities There are many tools available which can make your email tasks easier.
  • Utilities - Readnotify If you want to know if your email has been read regardless of anything, then try the readnotify service. It is excellent.