Category Archives: Email Tips

Easy, fast, fun way to “encrypt” emails

Have Fun With Your Friends: Easy, fast, fun way to “encrypt” emails You’re not going to fool the FBI nor anyone who’s an expert with fonts and/or computers, but most the time you can catch the attention of your reader by writing your email in your regular font, the highlighting the text and changing the font to Webdings… Read More »

A Phishing Scam Exposed

“Discover”a phishing scam I received this email this morning and deleted it, and then thought about it and dragged it out of the deleted items folder. I thought this was a typical phishing scam designed to lure poor, unsuspecting folks who don’t subscribe to our newsletters … into giving up their Discover Card details.  Since I don’t have… Read More »

Control Spam the Way We Control Spam

Control Spam the Way We Control Spam Before we begin, we have never found a program to control spam well enough for us to use it for our business. We’ve tried them all including Mailwasher and the anti-spam components in security suites we’ve tested. They have the same flaws, either they filter out some good email with the… Read More »

Export Your Gmail Contacts

Export Your Gmail Contacts It is easy to export your Gmail contacts in CSV format (the format that almost all Email program recognize) so you can save them as a backup or import them into most any major email program. So here’s how you do it. Log-in to your Gmail account. Right beneath the Google logo, you will… Read More »

Setup Yahoo Mail in Outlook and Other Email Clients

Setup Yahoo Mail in Outlook and Other Email Clients First, we don’t want you to think this is some kind of endorsement for Yahoo Mail. It is not. We think Yahoo is the least secure one of the three “name brand” web mail services (Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo); we are not advising anyone to sign up for Yahoo. However,… Read More »