Some options in Outlook Express can only be changed by editing the Windows Registry. A comfortable way of editing those settings is the application Tweaker for Outlook Express which provides easier access to several of those options and features. Outlook Express Settings and Outlook Express Dialogs are available as tabs in the main program window. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1
A release version of Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1 has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site yesterday and is available for public download. Currently only the US-Version of the popular email client is available on the ftp site which can be installed on all supported operating systems including Linux, Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. There [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup
Backing up your email accounts regularly is a pretty important task and a safety measure in case something goes wrong and you cannot access the account anymore. Most users collect emails over the years and keep them just like they would keep letters that have been send to them by friends and relatives. Loosing those [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird Mailbox Alert
Mailbox Alert (via Genbeta) is a add-on for the popular mail client Thunderbird that adds the ability to define alerts for mail folders in Thunderbird. Alerts can be messages, sounds or commands. The default functionality in Thunderbird allows to define one sound or notification that will be displayed when new mail arrives which does include [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 released
A new version of my favorite mail client Thunderbird has been released and it finally manages to join up its version with Mozilla Firefox. I have not been informed about the new version by Thunderbird yet, a manual check by clicking on HELP > Check for Updates found the new update and installed it immediately [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Import Outlook Emails into Windows Mail in Windows Vista
I spend the morning at a house of a friend who bought a new computer and wanted some of his data transfered from this old computer to the new computer. The old computer was running Windows XP and Outlook Express, the new one was a shiny new Acer Desktop PC running Windows Vista Home Premium [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Outlook Tools
Many PC users are still using Microsoft Outlook as their main email application. It’s rather convenient because Outlook Express ships with the Windows operating system and the retail Outlook is part of Microsoft Office if I recall correctly. The biggest advantage of Outlook is in my opinion that it is already there, was never a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Add File types to the Microsoft Outlook Attachment Manager
Microsoft Outlook categorizes mail attachments into three risk types which are high, medium and low. Outlook uses the default Microsoft configuration to determine if a file poses a high, medium or low risk when the user tries to open the attachment. The file extension .exe for instance poses a high risk while .txt does not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Interesting One-Way Email Services
One-Way Email services, also known as disposable emails or throwaway emails are a great way to anonymize your data when signing up for websites or services. It sometimes happens that I need to access information that are located in a members only area of a forum for instance. I know that I will be visiting [...]