Web Mail Tips

Type Long Web Mails in Word - I know someone who spent a few hours writing a long email, and when she tried to send it she received an error message. Apparently, her Internet connection had timed out. When she clicked on the "back" button, her message was nowhere to be found.

If you like to use web mail, open a new document on your hard drive and write your mail there first. After that, cut and paste your message into your web mail and send it. It will save you much potential frustration.


GMail Web Storage - Got a big Gmail account but not sure how to use it? There is a program that changes Gmail into a disk that allows you to store files as easily as accessing drive G.


Use Unicode (UTF-8) for non-English email - For instance, you can send Chinese characters using Unicode encoding instead of the Big5 or GB2312 encoding. If not, they will appear as gibberish in Yahoo Mail. Most email programs except Eudora support UTF-8.


Backup Yahoo Mail and Hotmail to hard disk - If you want to automatically backup Yahoo Mail or Hotmail onto your hard drive, don't fret. There are free utilities like YPOPs! and Hotmail Popper that will do the "dirty" job for you. No more deleting, forwarding or doing cut and paste on your mails!


Hotmail Offline Viewing from Outlook Express - View your Hotmail from your mail client.

* Go to the left panel in Outlook Express where they show Hotmail.
* Click with the right mouse button on "Inbox" under Hotmail.
* Select Synchronization Settings from the menu.
* Choose "All Messages"
* Do the same for "Sent Items".