Common errors include typo error, putting a full stop at the end of the e-mail address or forgetting to add in the “@”.

If you are writing to someone who has posted a message online, they may have added the words “no spam” into their e-mail address to confuse the robots (software that gather info online). For example, if you see “joseph@nospam.josephyap.com”, all you have to do is take out the word nospam.

The reason why connection hangs up when sending email is because the “Hang up when finished with a manual Send/Receive” option was enabled.To disable it:-
1. Open Outlook Express

2. Click Tools select Options

3. Click Mail Setup tab

4. Uncheck “Hang up when finished with a manual Send/Receive”

5. Click OK

6. Close all windows, and then restart computer

Deleting Emails from Sent Items folder permanently upon exiting Outlook

1. Fire up your Outlook

2. Go to ‘Options’

3. Go to ‘Tools’

4. Click on ‘Other’ tab

5. Check/tick the ‘Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exit’

6. Click the ‘Apply’ button

Deleting Emails from Sent Items folder permanently upon exiting Outlook

1. Fire up your Outlook

2. Go to ‘Options’

3. Go to ‘Tools’

4. Click on ‘Sent’ tab

5. Uncheck the ‘Save copies of sent messages in the Sent Items folder’.

6. Click the ‘Apply’ button

Lots of people nowadays use Gmail as it is probably the best free email service on the web. Chances are , you also have an account and you use it frequently.

The problem is, your office firewall may have been configured by your admistrator to prevent you from accessing it. One way to circumvent around the restriction is to use a different web address. Instead of using the usual htt://mail.google.com, use www.gmail.com, http://googlemail.com or https://m.gmail.com.