You can send out an email to take a vote from recipients in Outlook 2007.

1. Start a new message and click Options.

2. Click Use Voting Buttons.

3. Select the voting buttons you wish to use. Use Custom… if you wish to write your own options.

4. If you have selected the Custom… option, the Message Options dialog will appear. Type the options you would like in the Use voting buttons field. Separate your options with a semicolon (;). Click Close when done.

Now you’re ready to type and send the email.

Keep your Outlook 2007 Inbox clean and tidy by setting up AutoArchive.

1. In Outlook 2007, select Tools > Options…

2. Click the Other tab, then click AutoArchive…

3. Set how often you would like AutoArchive to archive your email. In this example, Outlook 2007 will AutoArchive my items every 20 days. Select other options as needed. The other important place on this dialog you may want to pay attention to is the location where it will Move old items to. Some people like to set this path to a network drive that is backed up regularly by system administrators. That way, you won’t lose any data if your hard drive crashes.

Also set how old you would like items to be before they are archived with the Clean out items older than setting. You can also choose to Apply these settings to all folders now. Click OK when you’re done.

Optionally, you can manually archive items any time by clicking File > Archive.

By default, email is sent from the iPhone with a Set from my iPhone message. To remove it, you need to change the email signature.

1. From the Home screen, tap Settings.

2. Tap the Mail button.

3. Tap Signature.

4. Change the Signature to be blank or to whatever you like.

Like many people, my Inbox gets saturated with phishing requests daily. Each one claiming to need access to my MySpace, eBay or CitiBank account. They keep on coming and most people just delete them. The thing is that I don’t feel these types of email should be taken lightly. Somebody made an attempt on your account! And it was illegal! So what do you do to try to fight back? Well these are good email addresses to know whenever you get a request. Just forward the email to the proper place if it involves any of the following entities.

Sites:
Amazon - stop-spoofing@amazon.com
America Online (AOL)- abuse@aol.com
eBay - spoof@ebay.com
Facebook - abuse@facebook.com
MySpace - abuse@myspace.com
PayPal - spoof@paypal.com
Yahoo - mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com

Banks:
Bank of America - abuse@bankofamerica.com
Citibank - emailspoof@citigroup.com
Charter One - abuse@citizensbank.com
Citizens Bank- fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com
Household Bank - bib@us.hsbc.com
Key Bank - emailfraud@keybank.com
Regions Bank - phishing@regions.com
South Trust - callcenterwebmail@southtrust.com
SunTrust - abuse@suntrust.com
TCF Bank - emailfraud@tcfbank.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com
Bank One - fraudreport@bankone.com
Chase Bank - abuse@chase.com.
U.S. Bank - faud_help@usbank.com
Visa - phishing@visa.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com

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Make an email signature automatically appear at the bottom of your email in Outlook 2007.

1. Click Tools > Options.

2. Click the Mail Format then click the Signatures button.

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How to save attachments from an Outlook 2007 email.

1. Select the message in the Inbox.

2. Click File > Save Attachments.

3. Select the attachment to save.

4. Navigate to the folder where you want the attachment saved.

5. Change the name of the file if you like. Click Save.

Unless you disable this message on your BlackBerry device, it will place a message that says Sent from Blackberry Wireless device at the bottom of every email you send out. Here is how to prevent it.

1. Select Messages.

2. Select Options.

3. Select Email Settings.

4. Set Use Auto Signature to No.

You can do the steps above or just change the Auto Signature message.

I have to admit it took me a while to find out how to mark an email as Read Only in Lotus Notes. I couldn’t find it because it’s not like Outlook where you can right click the message and get the option. I figured there were others out there that might be slow like me, so here are the steps:

1. Highlight the email you wish to mark as Read Only.

2. Click Edit > Unread Marks > Mark Selected Unread.

How to add an email signature so that it appears automatically in your email messages.

1. From any mailbox screen, press Menu.

2. Select Options.

3. Select Preferences.

4. Select Signature.

5. Check the box for Attach Signature.

6. Enter the signature, and then select OK.

When you try to open a file attachment in Outlook, you get an error:

Can’t create file: filename. Right-click the folder you want to create the file in, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu to check your permissions for the folder.

This problem occurs usually when Outlook cannot access the temp file the file is linked to. To resolve this problem, try the following steps:

1. Click Start > Run and type regedit.

2. Click Edit > Find and type OutlookSecureTempFolder.

3. When regedit has found the entry, it will tell you where your Outlook temporary files are stored. It will look similar to:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKrandomnumber

4. Open My Computer and navigate to this location on your hard drive.

5. Delete all of the files in this folder.

6. Restart Microsoft Outlook and you should be able to open your attachment.

There are some email messages where recipients shouldn’t be allowed to ‘Reply to all’. There is a way in Outlook 2007 to disable the option and prevent users from using it. Here’s how to create a form to accomplish this:

1. From the Tools menu, click Forms > Design a Form.

2. In the Standard Forms Library click Message, and then click Open.

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How to set an Out of Office message in Windows Mobile 6.

1. Open Messaging or Calendar.

2. Select Menu > Tools > Out of Office.

How to set Outlook 2007 as the default email client.

1. In Outlook 2007 under the Tools menu, click Options

2. Click the Other tab.

3. Under General, check the box for Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar.

See also:
Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar

I chat with people regularly on Google Talk. I don’t like that my chat messages get stored automatically forever. Here’s how to disable the storing of chats in Gmail.

3. Check the option for Don’t save chat history in my Gmail account.

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At 3 in the morning on Saturday, I sat at my desk, yawning looking for sites that provide free images. I came across a site in the UK that appeared to have some good images. It required me to register for the site to obtain the free images, which I did. Oh how I wish I could turn back time.

A half conscious person (which I wasn’t) would’ve avoided such a site. But less than 0.00001% of my brain was functioning, so I failed to check for a privacy policy.
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