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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Amic Email Backup
Emails normally contain a wealth of information that are valuable to most users. They can contain account details, important conversations or files and it would be a catastrophe – at least for me – if I would not be able to recover my emails in case of a computer crash. The natural consequence for me [...]
A collaborative spam filter
Spammers user thousands of computers to send spam mails, why should not thousands of users use the same technique to combat spam effectively ? That’s the major idea behind a collaborative spam filter that not only learns from your input but also from the input of other users that use the same product.
Xobni for Microsoft Outlook
Richard from Windows Observer send me a download link for Xobni, a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that extends the functionality tremendously. I’m not using Microsoft Outlook anymore since I started using Thunderbird and quit my day job where they forced me to use it. I still think that this an interesting plugin that should be mentioned here at Ghacks.
