Microsoft’s plans to use the Word HTML rendering engine to display HTML emails in the upcoming email software program Microsoft Outlook 2010 has created quite a few protest websites that try to convince Microsoft to change their plans. Outlook 2010 is still in the beta stage and Microsoft is encouraging users to submit feedback to [...]

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A new version of the popular email client Thunderbird has been released just a moment ago. Users can already download the new version from the official Thunderbird website or by using the built in update checker in the email client. The release notes have not been updated yet but the release itself is classified as [...]

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I received several emails lately that asked me how to setup email clients so that they could retrieve Gmail emails using the POP3 protocol. The Gmail POP3 configuration is fortunately not that complex: The major problem that most users run into is that POP3 has to be enabled in the Gmail web interface before they [...]

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Here are two quick email tips that helped me save precious time over the years. The first tip works with any desktop email client running on the Windows operating system while the second tip works in any email client including desktop email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook but also online email clients such [...]

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Time zones play an important role in email conversations. Not so when mailing a friend or colleague in the same region but when mailing someone who is living in another region of the world. Expecting a direct response from someone when it’s late at night their location is one of the problems that can occur. [...]

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Whenever a Thunderbird user replies to an email a default layout is being used to add information like the original authors name and email contents to the reply. Some users might want to change some of the elements that are added automatically. This can be for example useful if the user wants the replies to [...]

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Microsoft Outlook handles images embedded in HTML emails differently than other email clients. Users who try to save these images realize that they can only be saved as bmp images and not in the original format that they were send in. The only way to return the image in its original format is to convert [...]

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 essentials is an add-on for Microsoft’s email client that adds three distinct features to it. The Microsoft Outlook 2007 add-on requires the .net Framework 3.5 which has to be installed on the computer system before the add-on can be installed. Two of the features added by the Outlook add-on are reminders that [...]

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Thunderbird is a desktop email client that is seen by many as a viable alternative to Microsoft Outlook on the Windows operating system. Users who use the client heavily might experience slow downs or lags when using the desktop email client after some time. This can usually be attributed to corrupted msf files in the [...]

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