1. Create a fuzzmail, which is a little movie of you actually typing the email to show how you hesitated, rewrote, paused for dramatic effect… Here’s a(n offcolor) sample.
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  2. Save an email for another day with hitmelater.com. Just forward it to 24@hitmelater.com, and you’ll get it back in 24 hours. You can replace the “24” with another number or a day of the week (4@hitmelater.com will send it back in four hours; Wednesday@hitmelater.com gets it back the upcoming Wednesday).
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  3. Talk to your future self with EmailFuture, where you can set up an email that will be delivered when you specify. Dear Beth, By the time you read this, you’ll be 40. You’re old now…. really, really old…
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  4. Need to register for something but don’t want to be on someone’s email list forever? Try 10 Minute Mail, which gives you a temporary email address.
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  5. Need to know the origin of an email? Copy and paste the email header into Email Trace, and they will pinpoint the location of the sender’s IP address.
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  6. Stop yourself before you send the electronic equivalent of a drunken phone call to your ex. Use Gmail’s Mail Goggles, which asks you to answer simple math questions before the email leaves your outbox.
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  7. My favorite email silliness of all time… Monk-e-mail. Create a funny email with a talking chimp and send to a friend.