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Valerie is having issues with her email, she can receive but she can't send. Leo says that's due to a validation issue since her email provider doesn't support standard protocols. Google will block email IP addresses due to spam. Leo recommends using Gmail or other well-known email providers. So get a new email provider! 

Pamela is so inundated with spam, she wants to get rid of her Gmail account. How can she back up the email she wants? Leo says the concept of cleaning out your inbox is called INBOX Zero. It's basically spring cleaning for your email account. Leo says that the archive is designed to remove all the email you don't want to see, but still have access to it by a searchable database. That's much better than throwing it away and realizing you lost something important.

Mark called a customer service line at Guitar Center and then afterward, got an email asking to take a survey. But he never gave them his email. Leo says that the computer system had caller ID turned on and then used that phone number to data mine and find your email. It's quite easy.

Yogi has moved to LA and he's had a Comcast email, but Comcast isn't in LA. How can he get his email remotely? Leo says that Comcast has a webmail interface, so all you need to do is log into Comcast from their Webmail page via Xfinity. Here's how - https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/sign-in-to-email-or-voicemail-on-xfinity. But you have to do it within 90 days or it goes inactive.

Ann is frustrated because she can't send email, while her family can. Her computers will also bluescreen when she touches the keyboard. And it doesn't matter what device she touches. What is happening?  Leo says that static electricity can cause issues like this. So make sure you're grounded by touching metal. Computer technicians use a grounding bracelet.

But that is a very uncommon thing to happen. 

Perry uses Outlook and he doesn't get attachments. Plus Outlook keeps freezing. Leo says that he can go into the settings and enable "include attachments", but it's turned off by default for security reasons. As for the freezing, Outlook saves data in a PST file and sometimes it gets corrupted. When it does, it can cause Outlook to freeze. Run SCAN PST to fix it. But Leo says that Outlook is a bag of hurt and another email program would be much easier to deal with.

Neal has a Helm home email server, but he's having issues sending his email. Leo says that ISPs are blocking email that doesn't come from an approved IP address. They will test from big companies, but little companies and personal mail servers don't get enough attention. The idea is to avoid spam. Neal can precondition a mail server by sending as many emails as he can. So create some emails on Gmail or Yahoo, and send a bunch of email to them from the home server. But Neal says his bank won't accept .EMAIL as a domain.

Neil bought a Helm email server on Leo's advice. He also bought a domain through Hover to use with it. This is a home email service, and the idea is that you put your email on a server that runs in your own house instead of trusting a service like Google to handle it. Neil is wondering how to back the device up. Leo says one of the things he gets for $99 per year is that Helm backs it up over the internet. What's cool is that the contents of the email on the local server is encrypted with a key that only Neil has access to. Helm even provides a secure USB key to decrypt the backups.