Posts Tagged "email"

What You Need to Know When Choosing an Email Service

Posted by on Jun 16, 2011 in Tech Tips & Tricks | 2 comments

What You Need to Know When Choosing an Email Service

There are many mistakes people make when choosing what email provider to use. It’s very easy to get something good, so there’s no reason to suffer through the lower-quality options. Here are some tips on choosing what’s best for your email. Individual Email Accounts Many people use a “family” email account, or share an email account between two people. Please, please get separate email accounts. This makes life easier for everyone. If people want to talk to both of you, then they can address the email to both your addresses. Having combined accounts leads to confusion. Someone who networks with a Susan may be surprised to get an email from...

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Filtering Mailing List Messages with Gmail

Posted by on Jun 14, 2011 in Tech Tips & Tricks | 0 comments

Filtering Mailing List Messages with Gmail

If you’re on any mailing lists, you realize they can fill your inbox quickly and distract you. Creating filters in Gmail is easy. Here are some ideas on how you may want to use them. Targeting a Mailing List Often, mailing list messages will always come from–or be going to–a mailing list address. You can set the filter to be active for any email from (or to) that special email address. But what if there is no special address? What if someone from a group you visited once in another state emails you and 50 other people by individual emails on a regular basis? Hopefully they make sure to include the name of the group in the subject line or body of the...

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