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Creating Rules in Microsoft Outlook

“This is a guest post by Ben Carigtan, a technology enthusiast and staff writer at Online-Tech-Tips.” Is your outlook mailbox a mess? Do you miss reading important emails because of the tons of emails you receive on your inbox? Do you want to organize it in such a way that you move a group of [...]

Categories: Email, Knowledge

Thunderbird URL Link

URL Link is a very sophisticated add-on for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird that provides advanced link manipulation techniques. The most obvious – and probably common as well – function is to join links that spawn across multiple lines which is often the case when verification emails are send. It also substitutes spaces in links [...]

Categories: Email

Add functionality to Gmail with Gmail Labs

I only glimpsed over the Lifehacker article in the Brief Firefox add-on and only the mail from Dark Kosmos made me change my mind. Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options. Labs is basically a testing ground for Gmail add-ons that are not yet [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Recover Lost Outlook Passwords

Microsoft Outlook .pst (Personal Folder) files can be password protected with a very weak encryption algorithm which is great for users who have forgotten the password of their password protected files. Those users, and anyone else, will unfortunately also come to the conclusion that a weak password protection might keep a spying wife or co-worker [...]

Categories: Email, Software

Email Information directly from Firefox

If you regularly send information to friends or colleagues you might find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Normally those information are copied and then pasted into the email program or online script and then send to the recipients which naturally means that the sender has to open a website or application manually [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Sync Gmail Contacts with Thunderbird

Most users that I know have several email accounts at various email providers. I’m using about ten email accounts actively in Thunderbird and web interfaces and always thought that there must be a way to sync the contact information. Late last night I discovered the Zindus (via Download Squad) Thunderbird extension which syncs the Gmail [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Thunderplunger: Keep Thunderbird Clean

Thunderplunger is an add-on for the email client Thunderbird that adds a few semi-automatic functions that aid the user to keep Thunderbird clean and tidy. The six functions that are added can be divided into three areas: News and RSS, Accounts and Email Addresses. The News and RSS group contains functions to mark news and [...]

Categories: Email

Quickly check mails without downloading them

Retrieving all mail headers from the emails that are currently stored on the mail server can be necessary for several reasons. The first is that it is possible to delete mails without having to retrieve them completely. This can come in handy if mails with huge attachments are blocking the retrieval of other emails which [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

Email Address Extract

Extracting emails from files is probably something that most users will never even think of doing. It can however be interesting for some users who have them stored in a database with all kinds of information and want to extract all emails to mail every user in that database. It can be used for spamming [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

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