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Hate it when work emails interrupt vacation? Thanks to Visit Iceland, you can go to their website to “out-horse” your out-of-office email replies to a real Icelandic horse. The clever tourism team “taught” three of the country’s unique native horses to type on a giant keyboard, resulting in messages like “wFwhxsqjnzgmsrqaaaa.”

Email subscription monitoring services have come under fire for selling user data and reading emails. Leave Me Alone is a new alternative that lets you unsubscribe from email newsletters without the security risk. You can make a one-time payment to increase its scope.

We all hate email scams. Get your revenge on these hateful opportunists with Re:scam. This A.I. system simulates human behavior and pulls email scammers into endless and inane conversations to waste their time. Simply forward messages you hate to [email protected].

Privatix’s free service lets you generate dummy email accounts for anonymity and security. It has apps for iOS and Android plus browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The only downside is that you have to go to their site to check your dummy inbox.

After his encounter with the gold spammer, comedian James Veitch spun off his troll trolling into an online series on Mashable’s YouTube channel. His latest victim is “an army intelligent” who offered him a ton of diamonds.

In his recent TED Talk, comedian James Veitch shares his funny correspondence with a dim-witted email scammer, who claimed to be selling gold. James quickly turned the tables and regaled the criminal with a chart and code words.

A Chrome browser extension that lets you turn emails sent via Gmail into unreadeable messages anytime you want. It’s like Gmail’s undo send feature except you can do it even weeks after you’ve sent the email.

Dear Inbox is a paper greeting card service built into Gmail via a Chrome extension. Its fonts resemble handwriting and you can preview cards right in your Gmail page. Theodore Twombly not included.

The Peek 9 is a strange beast, basically a smartphone without the phone. It has unlimited text messaging and email, reads attachments, and has facebook, twitter and Google Maps support.

If you struggle to keep your email box tidy, Google’s new tech might help. Gmail Priority Inbox uses fancy algorithms to automagically put your most important messages at the top of the list.