Email Basics

Don't worry. In no time, you'll have an email account, send and receive messages, master email etiquette and know how to beat junk mail once it starts to creep in.

1. Get an Email Account or Email Program.
2. Email Etiquette.
3. Find People's Email Addresses.
4. Email Stationery and E-Cards.
5. Spam: Get Rid of Junk Email.
6. Email Terms.
7. How Email Works.

Get an Email Account or Email Program.

For free, you can find decent email services with unlimited storage and all the things an email user can want (except spam). Of course, you can shop for desktop email programs as well.

• Top free email accounts
• Top free Windows email programs
• More free email services
• More email programs (Windows, Mac, and Linux)

Email Etiquette.

Mention "etiquette", add "rules" for good measure, and it all sounds a lot more difficult than it really is. Email etiquette is easy enough, if you know a few simple, well, rules.

• The 26 most important rules of email etiquette
• How to clean up emails before forwarding them
• How sending an email to multiple recipients works: Cc: and Bcc:
• How to send an email to undisclosed recipients
• Why you should compress files before sending them via email
• More about forwarding emails
• More email etiquette tips

How Email Works

Are you curious to find out what happens when you click "Send", or how all kinds of files, images and videos fit into email messages?

• The big picture: what email is
• SMTP inside out: how internet email works
• POP basics: how your email program gets the mail
• More from Behind the Email Scenes

Email Help and Support

What now? Is your email not arriving, a font too small, or everything broken? Do you want to send mail without revealing the recipients, close your email account or get web-based email in your desktop program? Let's see if we cannot find a solution.

• Free Email Service Help
• Email Program Help
• Email Productivity Help
• Spam Filter Help
• RSS News Feed Reader Help

Free Email Service Help

Wondering how you can access your Windows Live Hotmail account from a desktop email program, how to sort mail in Gmail or what the Yahoo! Mail keyboard shortcuts are? Get the most out of your free email account (and answers to these questions) with these tips and tutorials.

• Gmail
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• Windows Live Hotmail
• Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mail Classic
• More free email services

Email Productivity Help

Limit your email time and get more out of your life. Of course, you'll still want to stay on top of all the incoming messages, but chances are that will also get easier, not more difficult.

• How to get and stay on top of your email easily by dealing with it tomorrow
• Avoid the Trap That Nails Stale Emails to Your Inbox.
• Spend less time on email and get more done
• How to Write a Good Email Subject
• Write short messages in the subject only
• Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients
• More email productivity tips.

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Freemailaccount

"Freemailaccount" list of the top best free POP3 & SMPT e-mail providers

Because we want to list only the best free email services on the web which we tested ourselves. Besides, even the listed TOP email services are already four more than one really needs

All listed free email providers offer as a minimum free POP3 and SMTP services which means you can receive and send email with your favorite email software.

Gmail

GMail
www.gmail.com

Web-based free email service from Google that offers spam protection, groups replies into a single conversation, and allows users to search their message archive & makes setting up an account very easy.GMail offers POP/SMTP/IMAP access to its email and is extremely fast and reliable. Also Gmail offers the best Anti-Spam filter of all tested solutions.

Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device.Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

Mail

mail
www.mail.com

Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security and convenience of other web-based email services.

Provides personalized, web-based email. Also offers premium service upgrades.

For security reasons, your session automatically expires five hours after you have logged in. This is to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Gawab

GAWAB
www.gawab.com

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Gawab is an email service provider that offers free and paid email services outsourcing. If you have a popular forum or website and wish to offer free email on your domain. We can host the mailboxes for your users.Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 10 GB online space, POP and IMAP access as well as many a web-based goodie.It's a pity Gawab.com's IMAP implementation does not give you access to labels, and full message search is missing from the web interface.

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Luxmail

Luxmail
www.luxmail.com

Your Free Email account comes with 1GB (1,000MB) storage, spam filtering, virus filtering, large file attachments, personal calendar, rich text editor and much more. Service options include registered email.

100% Secure, Spam Free, Large File Attachments, Spam and Virus Filtering, Fast Outgoing and Incoming, Easy Email Address, Fast, Reliable and Scalable, Private and Portable, World Wide Access.We've partnered with Cisco, Network Appliance, Sun, F5 Networks, and Above.net to develop services that are fast, reliable and massively scalable. Our superior technology lets us back all of our services with a Service Level Agreement that guarantees 99% uptime.

Bigstring

BigString
www.bigstring.com

BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.Unfortunately, BigString.com is not equally well equipped for handling incoming mail and lacks organizing tools.Self-Destructing Email, Recallable/Erasable Email, Non-Forwardable Email, Non-Printable/Savable Email, Advanced Email Tracking, Masquerading, All the storage you need, Secure Email, Video Email, Large Attachment Capacity, Automatic Message Highlighting, Advanced Spam and Virus Filtering, Advanced Message Sorting, Fun Email Effects.

Mail-center

Mail-Center
mail-center.com

E-mail access via standard mail clients, plus the convenience of Web Based Mail.Automatic Spam Filtering, POP3, IMAP, WAP & WebMail Access, Now with 100MB of Mail Space, upgradable up to 2GB!, Calendaring, Contact Management, Automatic Virus Protection, Vacation Messaging, Forwarding, Access Other POP3 Accounts, Banner Free Web Space. You can move from state to state, country to country and change Internet Service Providers as often as you like, and your email address will stay the same.

Netaddress

Net@ddress
www.netaddress.com

Net@ddress, the business strength email solution for individuals and small business owners, offers you the best email services the market has to offer.

500MB storage standard, with the option to increase to 1GB, 2GB and 4GB of storage and the ability to send and receive emails including your favorite photos, music files, and documents Industry leading virus and spam protection Advanced mail management tools, including filters and autoresponders Toll-free telephone customer support Access your mail from anywhere on the Web or use your favorite desktop email program, Anytime, anywhere access to your email worldwide using the web or your favorite desktop email client.

Icq Mail

icq.mail
www.icqmail.com

We've got you covered! Easy data transfer from your old email account to your new ICQ mail account. Keep Safe! Advanced spam and virus protection tools. Can't throw anything away? Unlimited storage allowsyou to keep all your data right here.

Obsessed with data? Mail trackingoptions allow you to see if an email you've sent hasbeen read by the recipient.

Hover

hover
www.hover.com

Hover is brought to you by the same people behind NetIdentity, and part of the Tucows family of internet services, an ICANN accredited registrar since 1999.

If you are an existing NetIdentity customer, your services have already been moved to Hover. To manage your account, click here and log in. If you are logging in to Hover for the first time, use your NetIdentity email address and password as before, after which you'll be prompted to choose a new username (this is only to manage your Hover account, and your personalized email addresses will not change in any way).

Fuzzmail

fuzzmail
www.fuzzmail.org

Fuzzmail records the act of writing and lets you send it as an email. Dynamic changes, typoes, pauses and writeovers are captured and communicated. We created fuzzmail because we wanted a more emotionally expressive alternative to email, so that an emailed love letter does not have to look the same as a business letter.

Fuzzmail is free! Just start typing a message and fuzzmail will record what you type. When you're done, click "send" to stop recording and send your message. The recipient will get a private web link to read the message replayed in the way that you typed it. A copy of the Fuzzmail you wrote will be sent to you at your email address.

We do not share your email address with anyone. The fuzzmails stored on our server will be kept confidential, but may be referenced by the webmasters to improve our system or for academic research purposes. 

Returnreceipt

ReturnReceipt
www.returnreceipt.com

ReturnReceipt tells you when email you've sent gets read. No. ReturnReceipt already works with your existing email client.

Much more! We also have Self-Destructing Emails, Ensured-Receipt emails, proof-of-posting certificates, proof-of-delivery certificates, message retraction, and many other useful features. Simply add: .returnreceipt.com to the end of your recipients email address. (eg; drakecn@yahoo.com.returnreceipt.com) This directs your email through the ReturnReceipt servers, where it is assinged a tracking code. When your email is opened by your recipients, this tracking code transmits a message to our server which confirms the date and time your email was read.