With over 200 million users, Google Mail, or Gmail, is one of the most used email systems in the world today. Even companies are getting in on the act by moving their email infrastructure to Google Apps, which gives them all the benefits of Google and the convenience of using a custom domain. With a [...]
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A Short List Of Handy Free Microsoft Outlook Downloads
While I’m a Thunderbird user at heart, I run Microsoft Outlook as well on all of my computer systems. I have tested and worked with dozens of third party Outlook tools over the past years of which a few have proven to be very useful. This article offers a short but handy list of Microsoft [...]
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Microsoft Outlook Tools
Outlook Tools is a third party software for Microsoft Outlook that provides support and advanced settings for users working with the email client on a regular basis. The free software program will automatically scan the PC on startup for an installed version of Microsoft Outlook. The relevant file paths and information are displayed in the [...]
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Thunderbird Quick Folders
There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Method one for example does not provide a good overview of emails that have been send by a [...]
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Email Verification Software
>It is always a good idea to verify an email address list before sending out emails like newsletters or offers to the group. Sorting out invalid or not-working email addresses can speed up the process of sending out the emails and help avoid problems during the transfer. Three checks can be performed to verify email [...]
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Thunderbird Delete Confirmations
The email client Mozilla Thunderbird does not come with delete confirmations turned on by default. There is also no option in the Thunderbird settings to activate delete confirmations. The advanced config editor does list two entries that might be there to enable delete confirmations but there is zero information to be found on the Internet [...]
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Why I’m Still Using A Software Email Client
The question why I’m still using an email client came up recently in an article about adding Gmail properly to a software email client. That’s actually a pretty good question; Online email services have evolved in the last years. They provide so much storage space that most users would never be able to fill it [...]