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When browsing the Internet from an untrusted network or an office computer it can be unsafe to type in the email account password. This tool was designed to help users send themselves email notes without logging in to their email account. For more security the user has the option to encrypt the content of the message and the encryption key is stored nowhere.

Note2email is a web application designed to send quick text notes to any email address in the world that send quick notes to your email address in one easy step, no need for passwords or usernames.

In addition to this the service also allows you to can use the service on a public terminal to send yourself an important note or a todo message without logging into any of your email accounts.

The service allows you to send unlimited email messages, but limits abuse by sending one message at a time.

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Backup To EMail is a very simple application that allow you to backup your files/folders to your email account. The configuration includes the same details you configure any email client like outlook express or thunderbird.

Note:Only for Yahoo and Gmail

Installation

First download the latest version of Backup To EMail.

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Then run the installation, next the main configuration screen will appear as follows:

In this screen you need to enter the email address where you wish your files/folders to be backuped to when you right click and backup them.

You can add more email accounts to backup to by clicking the “Configuration –> Mail Server” menu.

The email address you enter in this main screen will be the main email address that files/folder will be sent, this default email address will be the email address that files/folders be backuped to and will be assigned to the right click menu item “Backup To EMail”.

However you will be able to backup items to this mail address also from the “Send To” menu option, if you have set up more email accounts to backup to they will also appear there as seen in the following screenshot:

In the “Send To” menu option you can choose to which account you would like to backup your files/folder thus you can decide for example to backup important files to GMail while unimportant files to some other less trusted mail servers that has more storage than GMail but are less trusted (there are such that let you store tens of GB of emails).

The next important thing to do while installing Backup To EMail is to choose your outgoing mail server and to define your outgoing properties, this is done through “Configuration –> Mail Servers” menu item:

Over the next screen that appears you are first able to edit by default your default account (The account for which backups would be send through right click menu on files/folders with “Backup To EMail” menu item):

By default you will see the email account that you entered in the main screen; if you haven’t entered an email address in the main screen then press “New Account” and enter your details.

Description of fields:

Account: The email account you are editing

Email address: The email address you want files/folders to be backuped to

Outgoing server: The same settings as you have in outlook express or thunderbird, if you use an email account of gmail or yahoo then enter for gmail: smtp.gmail.com

yahoo: You will need to set here a different mail server than smtp.mail.yahoo.com that is because this mail server is available only for registered users so if you have for example a gmail account put the details of your gmail account in Backup To EMail, and in the Backup To EMail address put your yahoo email address.

Requires authentication: for gmail and yahoo this field should be checked. Usually mail servers do not allow anyone to send emails through them (so that spammers would not abuse them to send spam) but only registered user, so if you are a registered user in gmail or yahoo or with your ISP check this field so you will send emails (backup files) through your authenticated account.

SSL: Check this checkbox for gmail and yahoo. This field should be true in case your email account encrypts your emails sending traffic. Files backuped will also be encrypted with SSL protocol.

Username: if you checked the field Requires authentication then enter here your username, for yahoo and gmail this is simply your username to the yahoo/gmail account.

Password: If you checked the field Requires authentication then enter here your password, this is required for connecting to your outgoing mail server your passowrd is encrypted and safely stored, and is not used for anything but backup to email.

Click “OK” to store your details.

Backing up files/folders

This is the fun and easy part. Once your “Backup To EMail” configured you can right click any file or folder and click on “Backup To EMail”. A screen with a progress bar will apear and when it completes your file will be inside your email account.

Note: Files larger than 10MB will be split. Remember to update the outgoing server from Configuration –> accounts before sending.

Accessing Backup To EMail configuration

You can always configureBackup To EMail by going to windows start menu –> Backup To EMail –> Backup To EMail

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That old email might come in handy one day. Email backup should be the simplest task in the backup calendar, but it rarely turns out to be so. Outlook – the market leader – is best used with a cloud of other Microsoft messaging system around it, but anyone who dares to use it on an isolated basis will have to watch out for themselves.

If your company has an Exchange server setup then the backups will do done for you on a periodic basis, usually a week, and all that is needed is a call to the sysadmin to get a restore. If you work for a small business, or are on your own, the world might be a lot more complicated.

This article assumes that email is not left on or used with an Exchange server, and that email backup from the client is a critical task. The main reasons that Outlook backup on standalone PCs is important is data loss and migration from one machine to another. It’s only been with the arrival of XP and Office 2003 that Microsoft has started to pay attention to the fact that people other than corporate users have been using Outlook for their POPmail, and need tools and guidance to make the process easier.

1: The long way

In principle, it should be an easy if manual process – just back up the relevant files, specifically the Outlook .pst file (containing email, folders, contacts and calendar), on a regular basis. There are a number of ways to find this file in the blizzard of directories on a hard disk, the easiest of which is to use the MAIL setup in Control Panel. Click on this, the click on Data files, then Personal Folders, then settings. The directory path to the .pst file will be visible. This file can be copied manually, or noted to be added to a backup schedule.

Unfortunately, as simple as this sounds, the .pst file has to be created from within Outlook on a regular basis. Its creation is not automatic, and this is where most of the problems begin. The manual operation involves using the import and export feature on the FILE menu, and following the prompts using “export to file”. There are several types of output file – which go unexplained of course – but the one to choose is the “Personal Folder File (.pst)” option. Using any of the others will necessitate adding a filter from the Office install CD. Are any of these alternative file formats useful? Only perhaps if you want to export for import into a separate database, otherwise they should be ignored.

Make sure to select the correct root folder in Outlook, and to click the check box that specifes to copy sub-folders. Depending on the version of Outlook (i.e not the cut-down Outlook Express), there will be an option to compress and encrypt the data, and add a password.

2. The simpler way

Being a Microsoft application, there is always a simpler but less obvious way to do all this. Just click FILE, then NEW, then “Outlook Data file”. Copy that file. Just remember where you copied it from when the time comes to copy back. See Microsoft’s description.

3. The best option

The main issue with these solutions is that they involve the user remembering to back up the file manually, an obvious weakness. But there is another way that an amazing number of people don’t know about. For some time now, Microsoft has offered a 160K plug-in for outlook that turns Outlook backup into a one-command task that can also be configured to remind the user to run the command on a scheduled basis.

The tool can be found here, installs in seconds, and puts a simple “backup” command on to the File menu. Open this and folder (data) files and archives can be selected for backup as needed. It also automates the restore process, so no need to remember which directory the .pst must go in as would be needed when using the above methods.

Make sure this backup setup has been tested, perhaps using a second dummy email account. Create the account, import a .pst, then back it up using the plug-in command. No point in getting to the desperate day when a reinstall is needed only to discover that not all the folders or emails have backed up correctly. It does happen.

So why bother with options 1 and 2 at all? It never hurts to know your enemy, particularly if (as is possible), the backup is being made while the PC hard disk is failing and won’t allow certain types of menus or Windows functions to be accessed. In that case – if the above software is not functioning properly – there is a final line of defence called MS-DOS which will allow you to get at the *.pst file.

Access DOS (type “cmd”), and hunt for the file using the DIR command in the Outlook sub-directory below C:/Program Files. I encountered precisely this problem recently, and the command that saved the day was a piece of DOS poetry. The following found the file, allowing the simple copy command (with verification) to be wielded once the file had been located.

DIR C:\ /s /b | FIND “*.pst”

Using Outlook Express? It’s not as easy to do, but Microsoft provides the basics on its website.

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If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You’ll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 10 free email services to choose from reviewed here.

1. Gmail - Free Email Service

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.

2. AIM Mail - Free Email Service

AIM Mail, AOL’s free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface. Unfortunately, AIM Mail lacks a bit in productivity (no labels, smart folders and message threading), but makes up for some of that with very functional IMAP (as well as POP) access.

3. GMX Mail - Free Email Service

GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program. More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.

4. Yahoo! Mail - Free Email Service

Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web with unlimited storage and RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging to boot. While Yahoo! Mail is generally a joy to use, free-form labelling and smart folders would be nice, and the spam filter could catch junk even more effectively.

5. Inbox.com - Free Email Service

Inbox.com not only gives you 5 GB to store your mail online but also a highly polished, fast and functional way to access it via either the web (including speedy search, free-form labels and reading mail by conversation) or through POP in your email program. Unfortunately, IMAP access is not supported by Inbox.com, and its tools for organizing mail could be improved with smart or self-teaching folders.

6. Gawab.com - Free Email Service

Gawab.com is a speedy, stable and very usable free email service with 2 GB online space, POP access and many a web-based goodie. It’s a pity Gawab.com lacks IMAP access and full message search.

7. Zenbe - Free Email Service

Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, Facebook updates, too. With a focus on elegant simplicity, Zenbe provides many sweet shortcuts but also shows quirks and omissions in others. The spam filter is good but IMAP and POP access missing.

8. FastMail Guest Account - Free Email Service

FastMail is a great free email service with IMAP access, useful features, one of the best web-based email interfaces and few ads.

9. Windows Live Hotmail - Free Email Service

Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you a 5 GB of online storage, fast search, solid security and an interface easy as a desktop email program. When it comes to organizing mail, Windows Live Hotmail does not go beyond folders (to saved searches and tags, for example), its spam filter could be more effective, and POP or IMAP access are missing.

10. Bluebottle - Free Email Service

Bluebottle offers email accounts that are practically free of spam (using challenge/response filtering) and can be accessed on the web or using POP with any email program. Bluebottle could offer more tools for efficiently handling mail, though, online storage is in a somewhat short supply, and challenge/response filtering comes with its own share of problems, too.

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In previous versions of Internet Explorer there has always been a Mail Icon situated on the main toolbar. This Mail icon would open either Outlook Express (now Windows Mail), Microsoft Outlook, or whichever Mail client you designated as the default mail client in the programs section of Internet Explorer option.

For Internet Explorer 7.0, the Mail icon was deliberately left off the main toolbar in an effort to reduce toolbar clutter and make everything nice and neat.

To incorporate the Mail Icon into the Internet Explorer toolbar proceed as follows:

1. Open Internet Explorer

2. Click the Tools option on the Main toolbar and then, from the drop down menu, click on Internet Options

3. In the Internet Options Window, Click the Programs Tab

4. Once in the Programs tab window, click the Set Programs button in the Internet programs section.

5. The Default Programs window will now open

6. In the Default Programs Window, Click the ‘Set your default programs’ option.

7. In the set Default Programs window, Click on the Mail client you want to use as default, i.e., Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, etc.

8. Once you have selected your Default Mail client, Click the set this Program as default option, and then Click the OK button

9. You default mail client has now been set.

10. Close all the open Windows and return to Internet Explorer

11. Once back in Internet Explorer, again Click the Tools option on the main toolbar and, from the drop down menu, Click the Toolbars Option.

12. another drop down menu will appear. From this menu, Click on the Customize option

13. In the Customize Window look at the list in the Available Toolbar Buttons section and Click on the Read Mail option

14. Now press the Add button located between the ‘Available Toolbar Button section and the Current toolbar buttons section’

15. The read Mail option will now be added to the Current Toolbar Buttons section.

16. As it stands the Read Mail button will still not be visible on the toolbar. It is actually there, but you will need to click on the > chevron to the right of the screen to extend the toolbar menu.

17. In order for you to make the read Mail icon more prominent, highlight the Read Mail option and then press the Move Up button.

18. If you want the read mail icon to be before the Home button on the main toolbar continue pressing the Move Up button until the Read Mail option is at the top of the list.

19. Finally press the Close button to shut down the Customize window

20. Your Read Mail icon should now be sitting on the main toolbar.

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POP, or Post Office Protocol, allows you download messages from Gmail’s servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail, even when you aren’t connected to the Internet.

To enable POP in your Gmail account:

1.Log in to your Gmail account.

2.Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.

3.Click Forwarding and POP.

4.Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.

5.Choose the action you’d like your Gmail messages to take after they are accessed with POP.

6.Configure your POP client and click Save Changes.

For the complete demo of configuring it to Microsoft outlook click here.

Supported POP Client List
Once you’ve enabled POP in your Gmail account, configure your mail client or wireless device to download Gmail messages.Google Supports only the following mail clients:

Mail Clients

Outlook Express (Windows)
Outlook 2002 (Windows)
Outlook 2003
(Outlook Express and Outlook 2002 (and older) (Mac)
Entourage 2004
Entourage X
Eudora 5.1 (and higher) (Sponsored & Paid Mode)
Eudora 5.1 (and higher) (Light Mode)
Eudora for Macs
Netscape Mail 7.x
Netscape Mail 6.2
Netscape Mail 4.5, 4.6, or 4.7
Apple Mail
Mozilla 1.7
Thunderbird 0.x
Thunderbird 1.5

Wireless Devices
BlackBerry® Internet Service
iPhone
SnapperMail

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Popular e-mail provider like Gmail and Yahoomail only allows to send files as an attachment. There is no option for sending folders as an attachment. Here i will teach you how to send folders as an attachment.

Probably you readers may know this method, but i will just continue with this tutorial only to newbie with computer and the internet.

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Ok, lets continue with this e-mail subject, just follow these simple steps.

Step 1

Right click on the folder, select “Send To” and then “Compressed Zip folder”.

Step 2

After the folder has Compressed, upload it and send.

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