How to create an email signature for MSN

Most of the email providers allow you to make your own customized signature that will be automatically inserted at the end of each message that you send. An Email Signature represents you, your business and your profession. It is the best way to promote your company or your business with an E-Signature which will contain the essential contact information, website URL link of your business or company and with a brief tag line about your business. The Signature can be either personal or professional one. Keep in mind that your email signature should be simple and easy to read. General Thumb rule is that the E-sig should limit to 4-6 lines.

Your email signature is a clear indication to your recipient that the message is from you and provides the sender’s name, company position and contact information. Email Signatures are very powerful and high-end marketing tool for your business or organization. Few lines that you make as signature will let people to know who and what you are. The most useful benefit with the email signature is, it can be used as a business card or an ad that enables the recipients to have direct access to your website.

 

Windows Live Hot Mail1. Select “options” and “More Options” from the windows Live Hot mail Toolbar.
2. Select the Customize your mail and click on Personal e-mail signature.
3. Type the desired signature in the text field.
4. MSN Hotmail does not include the standard signature delimiter automatically, so you should do that manually when composing your signature.
5. Click OK.
6. Add Rich Formatting to Your MSN Hotmail Signature.
 

How to create an email signature for Yahoo Mail

Most of the email providers allow you to make your own customized signature that will be automatically inserted at the end of each message that you send. An Email Signature represents you, your business and your profession. It is the best way to promote your company or your business with an E-Signature which will contain the essential contact information, website URL link of your business or company and with a brief tag line about your business. The Signature can be either personal or professional one. Keep in mind that your email signature should be simple and easy to read. General Thumb rule is that the E-sig should limit to 4-6 lines.

Your email signature is a clear indication to your recipient that the message is from you and provides the sender’s name, company position and contact information. Email Signatures are very powerful and high-end marketing tool for your business or organization. Few lines that you make as signature will let people to know who and what you are. The most useful benefit with the email signature is, it can be used as a business card or an ad that enables the recipients to have direct access to your website.

 

Yahoo Mail
1. Log on to your Yahoo! mail account and click “Options” in the top right corner of your mail page and click “More Options”.
2. From the list click on “Signature”.
3. Select “Show a signature on all outgoing messages” to enable the signature.
4. Select either plain text or Rich text at the right of the message window, above the text area. In Rich Text you can select the color, font, size and style options which will optimize your signature specifically.
5. Type the signature that you want it to appear in all your mails that you send.
6. Click on “Save Changes”.
 

 

Gmail gets drag-and-drop attachment

Google put out a pair of small, but useful Gmail updates on Thursday that make it both easier to use and more integrated with the company's free Calendar service. Notably, both have skipped a trial through the service's "labs" section, and gone straight through to the final product.
The first is drag-and-drop attachments, a feature which lets you drag files from your desktop machine right into your e-mail message to have them begin uploading. It works the same as the system Google implemented in its Wave service for photos and other media types. It also has the same requirement of the user having to run Google Chrome or Firefox 3.6.
To use it within Gmail, users just drag any file from their hard drive (or from within an open application) into a new green box that appears within the compose menu. The service then uploads it in the background, which--just like uploading any other attachment--lets you do other things as the bits are being pushed.

Gmail's attachment handling now works with a drag and a drop from your computer. You'll need Chrome or Firefox 3.6 installed though.

(Credit: Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET)

The other new feature is a nice follow-up to the experimental rescheduling feature the company introduced to its Calendar product just last month. It adds a little "insert invitation" link just below the subject line of outgoing e-mails. When clicked, it pops up with a Google Calendar invitation-maker that includes a visual of when there are open times to meet based on those people's schedules. As soon as you send it, the event gets added to everyone's calendars (if they're on Gmail that is), or attached as an .ICS file.
Between the two, the drag-and-drop attachments is really the new, killer feature. For those users on Chrome or Firefox (with Mozilla's Prism installed) who are running Gmail as a standalone desktop Web app, this adds a whole new layer of functionality, and one that more closely resembles a real piece of software.

How to you send a email with your signature?

Whether you use free webmails such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc or you use POP3 based emails such as the one provided by your internet service provider, you can add your signature to the email you send using these email services.

Here let us see the steps to add a signature to emails in MS Outlook or Outlook Express
To create a signature and to make changes to an already created signature outlook has options. You can configure outlook to add signatures below every email that you send using outlook or only for specific emails.
You can also create multiple signatures. For example one signature for office use, one signature for friends and another for family etc. For this, you should have many email accounts.
You can even put your signature in a text file or an HTML file and configure outlook to use this file as signature. A text file can only contain text information where as an HTML file can include images, your photo, your company’s logo or a scanned image of your original signature or a bigger font etc. So using HTML file is the best way to include signatures.
How to create signature?

1. Open Outlook Express or MS Outlook. Click on ‘Tools->Options’. Select the ‘Signatures’ tab and click on ‘New’ button.
2. In the ‘Edit Signature’ section the ‘Text’ option will be selected by default. In that box, you can key in your signature details.
3. If your signature in a text file or an HTML file then select the ‘File’ radio button and click on ‘Browse’ button’ to select the signature file.
4. Now select the ‘Add Signature to all outgoing message’ checkbox and click on ‘OK’.

To use different signature for different email accounts

1. First, create many signatures as mentioned in the above paragraph.
2. Open outlook and click ‘Tools->Options’ and select the ‘Signature’ tab.
3. select the first signature in the list and click on ‘Advanced’ button then select the email account that should use that signature and click on ‘OK’.
4. Follow the same step again to configure your other signatures for other accounts.

To add signature only to specific emails

1. Outlook will usually add the signature to all the outgoing emails without asking you. If you do not want to attach the signature to all emails then select ‘Tools->Options’ and select ‘Signature’ tab.
2. Now remove the check box in ‘Add Signatures to all outgoing message’ option and click ‘OK’.
3. From now on whenever you send emails the signatures will not be inserted automatically.
4. To insert signature to specific emails just click on ‘Insert->Signature’ menu option and select which signature you want to insert.

To add your REAL signature in emails

1. In a blank white paper put your real signature. Then use your scanner to scan the signature and save it as an image. For example you can save it as a sig.jpg file.
2. Let us assume that you have saved your signature image as ’sig.jpg’ and saved under ‘c:\myfiles’ folder.
3. Now you have to create an HTML file for your signature. To create an HTML file for your signature open your Notepad application. And type the following.
   
   
4. Now save the file by choosing ‘File->Save’ in notepad. Save the file as “mysign.htm”. Note that your filename should be between two double inverted commas. If you do not use the double inverted commas then notepad will save your file as misigh.htm.txt
5. Now open outlook and select ‘Tools->Options’ and click on ‘Signature’ tab.
6. Now select the ‘File’ radio button and click on ‘Browse’ button and select teh mysign.htm file.
7. Click ‘OK’ and then check the ‘Add signatures to all outgoing message’ and then click ‘OK’ again.
8. Now your real signature will be added to the bottom of each email you send.

Create a Spam E-Mail Account- A Ways to Block Spam

Spam is one of those things that nobody wants, but probably has plenty of. If there happens to be anyone out there unfamiliar with spam,

Create a Spam E-Mail Account
Protecting your e-mail address is easier said than done, and if you find that it is impossible to keep your personal e-mail address completely private, a separate account may be the solution. Referred to by some as a “throw-away” account, this e-mail account doesn’t have to cost you anything, as suitable e-mail accounts are available for free from places such as Hotmail and Yahoo.

This throw-away account is the best choice when you are unsure that your privacy will be protected. Use it when registering with newsgroups, bulletin boards, sweepstakes, or in any other situation where you’re not quite sure your privacy will be protected. You have to use your better judgment, as signing up for something from a trustworthy source, like the Computer Geeks mailing list, is much different than many things we’ll just leave to our imaginations.

Since you are not expecting any important mail at this account, if it becomes over run with spam, you do just as the name suggests and throw it away for a new one.

Protect Your E-mail Address-A Way to Block Spam

Spam is one of those things that nobody wants, but probably has plenty of. If there happens to be anyone out there unfamiliar with spam, we are not talking about the luncheon meat, but the unsolicited, junk e-mail that clogs our inboxes. And in case you are curious, according to some sources, the junk mail version of spam earned its name from a Monty Python skit regarding the luncheon meat of the same name.

Protect Your E-mail Address
One of the best strategies for avoiding spam is to protect your personal e-mail address. Your best defense is for the spammers to not even know you exist, but this is a difficult task to accomplish.

Many spam mailing lists are created by harvesting e-mail addresses from websites where your information may be displayed. Newsgroups, bulletin boards, and chat rooms are just a few examples of places where spammers may run scripts to collect anything that resembles an e-mail address. Many sites, such as bulletin boards, have safeguards to protect their members, but it does nothing if these members post their personal information in one of their posts, their signature, or somewhere else that puts the information in plain sight. In addition, signing up with unknown sources for online contests, mailing lists, and similar occasions where you need to provide an address as part of the registration process may also expose your address to spammers. Using your best judgment is your best defense. If you want to keep your mailbox clean, keep your address private, only giving it out to trusted parties.

How to send an email with your signature?

Whether you use free webmails such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc or you use POP3 based emails such as the one provided by your internet service provider, you can add your signature to the email you send using these email services.
Here let us see the steps to add a signature to emails in MS Outlook or Outlook Express
To create a signature and to make changes to an already created signature outlook has options. You can configure outlook to add signatures below every email that you send using outlook or only for specific emails.
You can also create multiple signatures. For example one signature for office use, one signature for friends and another for family etc. For this, you should have many email accounts.
You can even put your signature in a text file or an HTML file and configure outlook to use this file as signature. A text file can only contain text information where as an HTML file can include images, your photo, your company’s logo or a scanned image of your original signature or a bigger font etc. So using HTML file is the best way to include signatures.
How to create signature?

1. Open Outlook Express or MS Outlook. Click on ‘Tools->Options’. Select the ‘Signatures’ tab and click on ‘New’ button.
2. In the ‘Edit Signature’ section the ‘Text’ option will be selected by default. In that box, you can key in your signature details.
3. If your signature in a text file or an HTML file then select the ‘File’ radio button and click on ‘Browse’ button’ to select the signature file.
4. Now select the ‘Add Signature to all outgoing message’ checkbox and click on ‘OK’.

To use different signature for different email accounts

1. First, create many signatures as mentioned in the above paragraph.
2. Open outlook and click ‘Tools->Options’ and select the ‘Signature’ tab.
3. select the first signature in the list and click on ‘Advanced’ button then select the email account that should use that signature and click on ‘OK’.
4. Follow the same step again to configure your other signatures for other accounts.

To add signature only to specific emails

1. Outlook will usually add the signature to all the outgoing emails without asking you. If you do not want to attach the signature to all emails then select ‘Tools->Options’ and select ‘Signature’ tab.
2. Now remove the check box in ‘Add Signatures to all outgoing message’ option and click ‘OK’.
3. From now on whenever you send emails the signatures will not be inserted automatically.
4. To insert signature to specific emails just click on ‘Insert->Signature’ menu option and select which signature you want to insert.

To add your REAL signature in emails

1. In a blank white paper put your real signature. Then use your scanner to scan the signature and save it as an image. For example you can save it as a sig.jpg file.
2. Let us assume that you have saved your signature image as ’sig.jpg’ and saved under ‘c:\myfiles’ folder.
3. Now you have to create an HTML file for your signature. To create an HTML file for your signature open your Notepad application. And type the following.
   
   
4. Now save the file by choosing ‘File->Save’ in notepad. Save the file as “mysign.htm”. Note that your filename should be between two double inverted commas. If you do not use the double inverted commas then notepad will save your file as misigh.htm.txt
5. Now open outlook and select ‘Tools->Options’ and click on ‘Signature’ tab.
6. Now select the ‘File’ radio button and click on ‘Browse’ button and select teh mysign.htm file.
7. Click ‘OK’ and then check the ‘Add signatures to all outgoing message’ and then click ‘OK’ again.
8. Now your real signature will be added to the bottom of each email you send.