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- Ooh, email. It's been around forever. We love it. We hate it. We all use it. There was a time when we'd all have one email account, and these days it seems like I've got about, well, I actually counted and I have around ten active email accounts, plus about another 20 barely use accounts. And then I even do throwaway email accounts, as well. So, email is a big thing. And by the way, if you ever want to contact me, here's my email address right here. Now, in order to configure email, we usually use an email client. However, in today's world, web-based email is extremely popular. I use Gmail. I've got Office 365. I've got Yahoo. I've got ProtonMail. I've got all of these different web-based tools. However, even if you're using a web-based tool, you still have to configure it so that it can send and receive your email. Now, for a lot of folks, this is kind of automatically configured. You fire up Gmail and you set in your account settings and boom, everything's configured. However…

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