Create Safer E-Mail Aliases
Your real name displays by default on e-mails you send from many of
the major e-mail services, so whoever you e-mail can see your full
name and your e-mail address. Because a last name and an online
people directory (like WhitePages.com) may be all it takes to locate
your family, look up your phone number, and have a sense of your
income bracket based on the location of your home, you may want to
avoid having your full name display in your e-mails. The good news is
that you can change this setting.- In Windows Live (if you don’t have a Windows Live Mail
account, see the following tip), click the Optionsbutton
on the right side of the screen (next to the Help icon with
a question mark on it) and choose More Options; then
continue with the steps that follow.
Other e-mail services have their own procedures for
changing the display of your name in sent messages.
If your email service displays your name, and you
don’t find a setting like the one in Windows Live Mail
to change, e-mail your provider or search its Help site
for the proper procedure. If the provider doesn’t allow
you to make this change, ask it to do so, or consider
changing services.2.Click the View and Edit Your Personal Informationlink.
3.Click the Settingslink on the left side of the screen.
4.Click the Profileslink under Account Information.
5.Click Edit Your Account Profilelink (see Figure 3-4).
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