I covered the email provider Akapost about ten days ago and liked what it had to offer. It was not your usual Gmail / Yahoo Mail kind of provider but one that would put an end to email spam to your mail inbox. This was achieved by acting as a proxy between the user’s email account and the destinations.

The user would create an Akapost email account at their website and link it to one of his real email accounts. Whenever he wanted to signup on a site he would use the Akapost email account which would forward all incoming mails to his account.

Mails that he wanted to send could be send to Akapost first which would forward them to the email recipient. This effectively means that no sender or website is able to uncover the real email address of the user. Akapost featured a few additional options, just read my initial article if you are curious.

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If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2007 on Exchange Server and have the guts to test a prototype application from Office Labs then Email Prioritizer might be a tool that has just been created for you.

The free Microsoft Outlook 2007 add-in aims to provide users with a new way to prioritize emails by temporarily halting email delivery and ranking emails to aid the user in selecting the most important emails first.

The add-in adds a new toolbar to Microsoft Outlook 2007 which provides access to the features. Priorities are assigned by making use through a handful of parameters and user input who can select a priority for an email which will use the information to assign priorities to future emails.

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Akapost is an Email services provider that protects your own email addresses with an ingenious system. The senders email address is shown when emails are received. Akapost acts as an Exchange station between your computer and that of the recipient by exchanging your email address with a selected one from Akapost (via Archer and Anewmorning).

The recipient will only see the Akapost email address and reply to that which in turn will exchange the received emails to the right address and send them on their way.

Two other uses for Akapost Email services are listed on the homepage of the Email provider. It can be first used to unify email addresses by connecting all your email addresses with one outgoing Akapost email address. Akapost furthermore supports custom email addresses which are great for businesses who want to mask employee email addresses.

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It is beyond me why someone would still use Outlook Express unless company’s policies would force him to do so. Many users probably use it because it is there within Windows by default and because it works. If you are one of those users you might like to continue reading this article about password recovery in Outlook Express.

Outlook Express Password Recovery by Passcape (via Techmixer) is able to recover all saved passwords in Outlook Express including smtp, pop3 and imap passwords. It does that by either decrypting the passwords or revealing the real chars behind asterisks depending on the menu in Microsoft Outlook Express.

It can even decrypt passwords directly from the ntuser.dat file which is handy if only the files but not the installation can be accessed.

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If you use both the email client Mozilla Thunderbird and Google Mail (Gmail) you might need a way to keep both address books in sync so that they can be accessed from both software programs. It’s unfortunately not that easy to synchronize the address books with the default options at hand.

The Thunderbird add-on gContactSync tries to make it easier by providing an uncomplicated way to synchronize the contact data. The user has to enter his gmail login details into Thunderbird after installing the add-on and make some configuration changes, for example the interval of the synchronization.

Thunderbird unfortunately saves contact information different than Gmail does which means that manual adjustments are required in Gmail to take this into account. By default, each informational piece about the address, like street and zip code are sorted into different lines in Thunderbird. This means that users would have to change those information in Gmail to fit the layout in Thunderbird.

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