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Who could actually resist Yahoo! mail’s unlimited storage? You could have numerous number of mails with attachments and not worry about the emails sent to you ever bouncing back to the sender. It’s no wonder why some people would use yahoo mail to consolidate their email addresses.

It’s not a very well-known feature but like in gmail, you could send emails using your other email addresses (as long as you can verify it, of course) and also fetch your pop3 mails. It’s very simple, you just have to do the following.

In your yahoo account, whether it’s classic or the new skin, go to your mail options. You will be brought to different options to manage your mails. Now you have to select “Accounts”, and from there, click on add or edit an account.

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It is true that GMail is one of the best web-hosted email systems around and have a huge disk space to boot! However, this great deal is nothing if it will not be used to its full potential. Being able to archive your mails for future reference and so as to keep your inbox clean is good enough, and so are the labels which makes sifting through hundreds of emails a little easier is good enough, so what else is missing? Forwarding your mails from one account to your Gmail account.

Having one email account to catch all of the non-spam messages from your various email addresses by forwarding them to your main account is not a revolutionary idea. However, being able for Gmail to fetch your messages from your from another server is another is not a very known feature of Gmail. Here, we’ll see how easy it is to set up your GMail account and therefore further using Gmail to its full extent.

Fetching your mails from your other service provider to your Gmail account is easy, just follow these steps: (click on the images to view the full-sized image)

1. Go to Settings > Accounts, there you will see various options for your account such as adding another email address, upgrading your storage (the current is at 5G, who needs more, really?) and what we’re after: Get mail from other accounts. Just click on the “Add another mail account link.”

   

2. A popup window will appear that will be asking you for your email address, (e.g. aaa@foureyessquad.com). Just type it in and click on the Next Step button.

   

3. The next window will ask for details for your new email account such as your password, POP server, and port. It will also ask you what you want to do with the messages that will be downloaded from that account, as always, you have 4 choices:

   

   1. Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server. Usually, when a message is downloaded from an account to a mail fetcher, the message will be archived (or deleted).
   2. Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
   3. Label incoming messages: [email address]. That is the default, but you may change it to whatever you like. As for me, I did not checked it off, rather I created several filters so the messages will be filed accordingly.
   4. Archive incoming messages (Skip the inbox)

And that’s all there is to it! Easy, isn’t it? You have to wait for a couple of minutes for the messages to be retrieved, after that, Gmail will automagically download your messages whenever a new message arrives for you.

The OSX/RSPlug.a Trojan is on a very short list of malware that’s been specifically designed to target Mac OS X, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. The motive of this particular Trojan could be for the purposes of phishing, identity theft, or simply to drive traffic to alternative Web sites, he said.

Newsfactor reported yesterday that mac users are no longer safe from bugs, viruses, worms and other security woes because a Trojan targeting Macs is currently on the lose. Apparently, hackers, scammers and phishers are taking Macs seriously for them to attack the system.

The worm, dubbed “OSX.RSPlug.a,” is a Trojan virus that changes the Mac’s Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect unsuspecting users to different sites. With this in your system, phishing for your username and password among various sites will be easier because you will be getting any malicious site that the culprit decides to point on you. The reason for this may vary, from the purposes of phishing, identity theft to simply drive traffic to alternate sites, the bottom-line is that hackers and scammers may already be finding its way into Mac’s systems. Everyone should be wary and alert on what they click on the net for this may be the reason to your computer’s long life or lack thereof.