Don't Delete Spam Automatically
Sunday August 31, 2003
On a typical day, my (snail) mailbox is filled with junk and a few bills due. There is a waste paper container right beside the mailbox (an incredible convenience), but ... Read More
Mailsmith 2.0.1 - More SecureSmith
Sunday August 31, 2003
Mailsmith, the BBEdit of email clients, gets an update. Mailsmith 2.0.1 not only brings a long list of smaller fixes and improvements, it also lets you connect to your SMTP ... Read More
Access the POPFile User Interface
Sunday August 31, 2003
POPFile has no "traditional" user interface. You control it via a web-based interface instead (much like you access Google in your browser).
Find out how to access POPFile to create buckets, ... Read More
Hot-Air Balloon Field Stationery
Sunday August 31, 2003
I wish I could describe how wonderful it is to balloon through a beautiful evening's sky, the farmland beneath gently embraced by the last sunrays, the mountains on the horizon ... Read More
Outlook Reminders by Email 2.0 - Alerts to Go
Saturday August 30, 2003
Event reminders that pop up nervously on your desktop will only get you that far if at your desk is not where you are. To have reminders follow you, you ... Read More
Spam Inspector for Outlook Express
Saturday August 30, 2003
Given that "simple" spam filters will only get you so far, Spam Inspector can be surprisingly useful.
Spam Inspector enhances your Outlook Express with comprehensive anti-spam filters and keeps them up ... Read More
Authorize Newsletters in Matador to Ensure Delivery
Saturday August 30, 2003
If you want your newsletters to arrive on time -- and in your Inbox -- as much as you want spam to go away, this tip is for you:
Make sure ... Read More
Outlook Express Attachment Extractor 1.10 - Instant Detachment
Friday August 29, 2003
What has been constructed can be deconstructed, what has been attached can be detached -- though Outlook Express Attachment Extractor might not always be the perfect tool for the job.
Outlook ... Read More
eMill - Marvellous Marketing Mill
Friday August 29, 2003
Do you want to keep your customers up to date with a simple announcement mailing list? Or do you need a complicated billing system implemented in email? EMill can do ... Read More
POP/IMAP Add-in for Messenger
Friday August 29, 2003
I hate it that Outlook Express makes you think you can't use it without having Messenger running, too (albeit not being signed in), but I like the new mail alerts ... Read More
Make Sure Qurb Doesn't Quarantine Newsletters
Friday August 29, 2003
Qurb quarantines all mail from senders you haven't authorized. To continue receiving your favorite newsletters uninterrupted, here's how to add them to the authorized senders in Qurb.
SendLater 1.59 - Scheduled Emails
Thursday August 28, 2003
The cats have developed an interesting procedure of EatLater: Every bite on a piece of dry cat food will make about 90% of it leave the mouth immediately, in various ... Read More
Create Stationery for Others with Scrippy
Thursday August 28, 2003
Once you've created your first stationery, chances are you're hooked -- and your friends will want your creations for their emails, too. Fortunately, it's easy to share:
Share your stationery creations! ... Read More
EarthLink Sues Spammers
Thursday August 28, 2003
I have been complaining about spam-friendly ISP fueling a lot of the spam problem. Of course, this is not true for the large majority of ISPs who are but victims ... Read More
Make Sure Mailblocks Doesn't Block Newsletters as Spam
Thursday August 28, 2003
Internet Service Providers block up to 38% of all opt-in newsletters. With Mailblocks, you can at least make sure you don't add to that insanity:
Newsletters often fall victim to a ... Read More
Citrus IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 27, 2003
Grapefruit juice can interact with medication. Good to know. Keeping that in mind, grapefruits are still one of my favorites. The appropriately named citrus letter is, too (plus it won't ... Read More
Rule of Thumb When to Send Your Newsletter
Wednesday August 27, 2003
Emails arriving during the night, waiting to be read are easier deleted than those coming throughout the day. But what about the weekdays?
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday? ... Read More
Outlook-QuoteFix 0.90 - Don't Use Outlook Without it
Wednesday August 27, 2003
If you reply to an email, you should quote and rewrap the original text neatly, introduce the quoted text with a short header and place your reply below relevant text. ... Read More
Send a Message in Plain Text with Mac OS X Mail
Wednesday August 27, 2003
Rich text... as if text could own anything. In fact, a "rich" text message is pretty worthless if the recipient can't read it:
If all your recipients see is gibberish, you ... Read More
(STEVEN) 2.0 - Goodbye, Spam
Tuesday August 26, 2003
(STEVEN) is a reasonably good challenge/response anti-spam tool. The best thing, however, is what (STEVEN) says when you quit "him".
(STEVEN) blocks a lot of spam by making sure only mail ... Read More
Qurb - Qurb Down on Spam
Tuesday August 26, 2003
I'm not too fond of the challenge-response approach to stopping spam. But for now it works quite well, and Qurb is one of the better tools implementing it for Outlook:
Qurb ... Read More
Liferea 0.3.1 - A Folder a Day...
Tuesday August 26, 2003
Feature after feature crawls into Liferea, making it less Spartan and more Attic.
If multithreaded checking and folders to put your feeds in (you can't move feeds between folders yet, though) ... Read More
Make Sure McAfee SpamKiller Doesn't Kill Newsletters as Spam
Tuesday August 26, 2003
Make your newsletters your friends.
Here's how to make sure McAfee SpamKiller never mistakes one of the newsletters you receive for spam.
WinAntiSPAM 1.18 - Get Accredited
Monday August 25, 2003
SimpleChallengeRESPONSE:
WinAntiSPAM is a simple challenge-response spam fighting tool that works as a POP proxy. (Windows)
SpamButcher 1.6 - Now with Custom Recipes
Monday August 25, 2003
SpamButcher, the culinary anti-spam tool, gets an update that brings custom filters.
SpamButcher is an easy to use anti-spam tool, and it is an effective one -- maybe too effective. (Windows)
Be Careful with Irony in Emails
Monday August 25, 2003
Ironic, isn't it?
No, really! I mean it. Honestly!
Install Additional Spell Checker Dictionaries in IncrediMail
Monday August 25, 2003
If I were a trend scout, I had the following trend to report: French music in Austrian supermarkets. I'm talking about the kind of music that is usually confined to ... Read More
Pennock's Email Notifier 1.1 - You've Got a Mail Checker
Sunday August 24, 2003
Ding dong! You've got another mail checker to try. Not only can Pennock's Email Notifier be compressed to the a nice acronym, it also knows nice ways to announce new ... Read More
Three Good Reasons for Using a Mail Checker
Sunday August 24, 2003
Do you use a mail checker? I must confess I don't -- although, whenever I try one, I find it really useful, and although these reasons for using one sound ... Read More
Couche Soleil (Sunset) IncrediMail Letter
Sunday August 24, 2003
What a sunset can do! It turns a sour day sweet and transforms an ordinary email into a beautiful story with a touch of Oriental mysticism:
›› The sun goes to ... Read More
Make Sure My Way Mail Never Filters Newsletters as Spam
Sunday August 24, 2003
I want my mail my way, and I want all my newsletters, too.
My Way Mail's spam filters keep your Inbox clean, but they may make a mistake and leave it ... Read More
Remove the Outlook Bar from Outlook Express
Saturday August 23, 2003
If you want to get more space for reading emails you can either get a higher-resolution display or reduce some of the clutter created by email programs:
Make room for email ... Read More
Vallen e-Mailer R2003.0801 - Minimalistic Mailer
Saturday August 23, 2003
Simple (or a little too simple) things are easy (or a little too easy) to describe:
Vallen e-Mailer is a bare bones tool to get a message delivered to a list ... Read More
Make Sure Cloudmark SpamNet Doesn't Filter Newsletters
Saturday August 23, 2003
Cloudmark SpamNet will eliminate most spam for you, but it may also catch one or the other newsletter you do want to receive. Here's how to make sure your newsletters ... Read More
Email Workshop: Outlook Express Tips You Can Use
Friday August 22, 2003
A friend recently told me (not without some friendly concern about this site's raison d'ête): "Email just works".
But that's exactly the way it's supposed to be. Still, I believe there's ... Read More
Annotis Mail - Paper Email
Friday August 22, 2003
Do you want to... highlight in your emails with a marker, put sticky notes on them and hand-write with a pen?
Annotis Mail makes it possible, easy and great fun to ... Read More
Send Web Pages with Yahoo! Mail
Friday August 22, 2003
Have you ever wanted to send a web page, as you see it in your browser, via email? No? That's just because you didn't know how to do it. (Honestly, ... Read More
Know What a LART is
Thursday August 21, 2003
"Lart" is not in the dictionary, and I doubt you'll ever be able to find it there. You can, however, find some larting here:
A LART is a luser attitude readjustment ... Read More
ActiveRefresh 1.35 - News is Everything
Thursday August 21, 2003
It sounds a lot like exactly the right thing for hot summer days, but no, ActiveRefresh is no whey drink:
ActiveRefresh is a powerful aggregator (RSS, non-syndicated sites, email) and flexible ... Read More
Auto-File Mail and Spam in Outlook Express with POPFile
Thursday August 21, 2003
It's a spam free world! And, with a bit of training, it can be a self-organizing world, too.
With the help of POPFile as a personal assistant, you can have Outlook ... Read More
Forever Lovers IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Is it — do you have — time for a love poem?
‘‘I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, ... Read More
Block a Sender by Email Address in Hotmail
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Email blacklists have something unfriendly and depressing. Alas, sometimes it's necessary to ban someone plaguey...
Here's how to add any email address you like (or don't like, rather) to your black ... Read More
MailEnable Standard 1.7 - The MailEnabler
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Your own mail server is a piece of freedom, much like your own annual ticket or car. And it smells a lot better than the latter:
With MailEnable Standard, you can ... Read More
SoBig.F, The F. Spammus
Wednesday August 20, 2003
SoBig.F, a new variant of the SoBig family, has been spreading even faster and farther than earlier incarnations.
But the deluge of "Re: Thank You!" and "Wicked Screensaver" mails (you can ... Read More
Change the Color of a Bucket in POPFile
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Red is a stimulus to appetite. So no more red for spam. Maybe pink?
Do you want your work mail to be pink? Here's how to change the color assigned to ... Read More
Abilon 1.2 - Streaky
Tuesday August 19, 2003
When Austrians (and possibly Germans, though I'm not so sure about that) see a tool like Abilon, they have one word for it: streaky -- part good, part bad.
Naturally, the ... Read More
Setting Up Mailing Lists with Outlook Express
Tuesday August 19, 2003
Outlook Express may look simple and innocent, but it has some hidden talents. For example:
Want to set up an announcement list for your Web site? Want an easy way to ... Read More
How Many Emails You Can Send from Hotmail per Day
Tuesday August 19, 2003
In an effort to curb spam sent through Hotmail, MSN has introduced a limit to the number of messages you can send. Here's more:
If you want (or have to) mail ... Read More
Hotmail Popper 2.0.3 - Pop, Pop, Popmail
Monday August 18, 2003
Hotmail Popper, the free and simple Hotmail to POP tool, gets an update that
lets you filter messages by the Hotmail folder they've been filtered to.
Sounds a bit goofy, yes, but ... Read More
Preview Messages in The Bat!'s Message Dispatcher
Monday August 18, 2003
You don't have to download every huge attachment that you don't want or need. The Bat! can show you the top of an email right at the server, and let ... Read More
FreeBusy 1.13 - Busy Auto-Responding
Monday August 18, 2003
Is she on vacation or sick of me? Should I re-send my mail or should I wait?
Every email user knows the anxiety and confusion arising from somebody not replying promptly. ... Read More
Teach the Mac OS X Mail Inline Spell Checker New Tricks
Monday August 18, 2003
You can teach an old spell checker new tricks. If you have inline spell checking enabled in Mac OS X Mail, adding new spellings to the dictionary is particularly easy.
Sharp Mail Monitor 1.4 - Simply Sharp
Sunday August 17, 2003
Simplicity is bliss. A simple way to know what simplicity is, for example. Or Sharp Mail Monitor:
Sharp Mail Monitor offers a simple but nice way to announce new mail in ... Read More
KMail - Mail With Special K
Sunday August 17, 2003
I still remember compiling and running one of the first snapshots of The K Desktop Environment. It was big, it was unfinished, it crashed a lot, but it looked good. ... Read More
Outlook Express: To be Continued
Sunday August 17, 2003
"The situation has changed", and innovation will continue for Outlook Express (how about arbitrary header filters? proper message quoting? message templates? effective spam filtering?). Microsoft had reportedly planned to abandon ... Read More
Under the Sea Stationery
Sunday August 17, 2003
Having seen — and having been amazed by — this stationery, I guess now it's really time to learn scuba diving.
›› Discover the beauty of a world under the sea, ... Read More
Make Landing Pages Fit Your Email Marketing Campaign
Sunday August 17, 2003
It's amazing how difficult some sites still make it to buy from them. One of the unnecessary hurdles users have to take is landing pages that make you wonder if ... Read More
What You Need to Know About Bayesian Spam Filtering
Saturday August 16, 2003
If Bayesian spam filters let mail through if (and only if) it looks like my ordinary mail, won't spammers turn to sending junk that looks like my ordinary mail? -- ... Read More
Check the Spelling as You Type in IncrediMail
Saturday August 16, 2003
Even if they make you type more sloppily (which is good, too), this risk-compensating behavior doesn't negate the positive effect of spell checkers.
Make the emails your write in IncrediMail look ... Read More
Shrook 1.2 - Shrookronization
Saturday August 16, 2003
With version 1.2, Shrook, the ambitious and clever Mac RSS feed reader, learns to
synchronize with other Shrook copies and
incremental, iTunes-like, article searching.
Shrook is a clever RSS feed reader that displays ... Read More
Insert a Link in an Email with Pegasus Mail
Saturday August 16, 2003
How long before "I link you" becomes synonymous for "I like you"?
Of course, everything is connected. But only if you insert a link in your email will the recipient be ... Read More
Spam Sorter 1.5 - Rules, Rules, Rules
Friday August 15, 2003
Want to see an impressive list of spam filtering criteria? Spam Sorter has rules aplenty, and it does catch just about all spam:
Spam Sorter is nice anti-spam tool that comes ... Read More
Bloglines - RSS News to Go
Friday August 15, 2003
I want an interface to RSS feeds to be easy to use, powerful, and accessible from everywhere. Bloglines fulfills the first and the last requirement perfectly, and its powerful-feature-record isn't ... Read More
Turn Off Internet Explorer HTML Viewing in Eudora
Friday August 15, 2003
Deafened by the staccato of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, their exploitation, and subsequent patches, can you hear the call?
View HTML emails with more security in Eudora. Disable Internet Explorer and make ... Read More
Enable System-Wide IncrediMail Keyboard Shortcuts
Friday August 15, 2003
Keyboard shortcuts are a swift way to get things done in many applications. But IncrediMail's system-wide shortcuts cut it even shorter:
Make essential functionality of IncrediMail easily accessible from anywhere in ... Read More
MailObserver 0.6.1 - You've Got Black!
Thursday August 14, 2003
Normally (and in spite of spam), I'd think of new mail coming in as a cheerful event. MailObserver almost changed that...
MailObserver is a really simple but useful and unobtrusive new ... Read More
How Public Key Encryption Works
Thursday August 14, 2003
Without encryption, anybody can read your emails. Find out how public key encryption helps you keeping your messages private.
Liferea 0.2.9 - The RSS Reader from Sparta
Thursday August 14, 2003
"Spartan" was my first thought when I saw Liferea ("LInux FEed REAder"). Yet (or because of this?), it quickly became one of my favorite Linux RSS readers...
Liferea is simple and ... Read More
Add a Contact to Your Favorites in The Bat!
Thursday August 14, 2003
Are "favorite" things and persons a matter of quality or quantity? In The Bat!, at least, it's clearly a question of quantity. If you have too many favorite contacts, you ... Read More
Wildlife Stationery
Wednesday August 13, 2003
It's a wild, wild life. And a beautiful one, too. Just take a look at these wildlife shots:
›› Use scrolling wildlife pictures as backgrounds for your emails. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
PromaSoft AutoResponder 2.00 - Now a MSNMessengerResponder, Too
Wednesday August 13, 2003
It sounds like a dumb tool that just replies to incoming mail automatically. But PS AutoResponder is much more than that, you can use it to set up a powerful ... Read More
Get Reminded to Reply to a Message in Outlook
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The anatomy of an Inbox is a tricky matter. The latest message always gets all the attention. No matter how flags it carries, an email that's a few hours old ... Read More
End of Road for Outlook Express
Wednesday August 13, 2003
After Internet Explorer (stand-alone), now Outlook Express: No further development will happen on the email client that ships with Windows, ZDNet UK reports (compare that to the breathtaking pace of ... Read More
Avoid Privacy and Security Issues with Emails in Opera
Wednesday August 13, 2003
All the focus on security hasn't reaped any real results. Exploits continue to be found -- and exploited -- regularly. You'd better trust no one but yourself... and your Opera:
Emails ... Read More
Advanced Email Parser 1.21 - Automate Everything
Tuesday August 12, 2003
With so many mails coming in, handling email can be an overwhelming task. You have to reply with a standard answer to one, extract and process purchase data from the ... Read More
Send Newsletters On Time
Tuesday August 12, 2003
Like most people, I am a creature of habit. I want to open my email in the morning and find all the usual newsletters in place. I think I'd spill ... Read More
PopHeadlines 1.0 - RSS Feeds via Email
Tuesday August 12, 2003
You know the mantra: the best RSS feed reader is your email client.
With PopHeadlines, you can find out if there's any truth to my repeating this. It's not comfortable, it's ... Read More
Up to 38% of Legit Mail Blocked as Spam
Tuesday August 12, 2003
The latest Return Path email delivery study revealed that 17% of opt-in messages are erroneously blocked as spam by ISPs and email services. The number can be as high as ... Read More
Create Folders to Organize Mail in Outlook Express
Tuesday August 12, 2003
Getting organized isn't hard in Outlook Express:
If your Outlook Express Inbox is full of mail, set up folders to organize mail, get rid of stress. Here's how to do it.
AutoReply 2.1 - It's a Holiday!
Monday August 11, 2003
This is what the AutoReply of Alenka (happy AutoReply user on holiday) had to say: "Hi, it's a holiday for her, but not for me. I have to sit here ... Read More
GyazMail 1.1.0 - Show me Your HTML
Monday August 11, 2003
GyazMail learns
HTML (at least some of it) and you can now
customize the keyboard shortcuts freely,
potentially a huge productivity gain, especially if you're coming from another email program -- which you ... Read More
MailSweep - For a Cleaner Mailbox
Monday August 11, 2003
'Sweep for my mailbox, sugar for my honey:
MailSweep is a great and easy to use tool for cleaning a remote POP mailbox. (Windows)
Don't Use "This is Spam" to Unsubscribe
Monday August 11, 2003
Jane had a friend called Jeane. When she grew tired of her, she said "This is Joanne", making sure some bullies who, this much was known, distasted anybody by the ... Read More
@Spam 1.0 - Filtering @Will
Sunday August 10, 2003
No_end_in_sight@Spam.ol:
@Spam is a spam filtering tool for Outlook with a few bright moments, but overall it is not precise enough and inefficient. (Windows)
Avoid $$$ Signs in Email Marketing Campaigns
Sunday August 10, 2003
Why "$$$" won't bring you $$$.
Create a Bucket in POPFile
Sunday August 10, 2003
POPFile automatically files incoming mail to "buckets" based on the email's content. You can have just two buckets (spam and good mail) or one for every project you work on, ... Read More
Gnarled Tree Stationery
Sunday August 10, 2003
Did you know that "gnarled", like so many other words, was invented by Shakespeare? Must have been under (the influence of) a tree like this:
›› The tree grows more beautiful ... Read More
FilterMy.com - Now with Daily Recovery
Saturday August 9, 2003
One of my biggest concerns with FilterMy.com's spam filtering has been addressed: it no longer makes it impossible to correct its errors. Now you can recover false positives easily, which ... Read More
Remove an Address from Blocked Senders in Outlook Express
Saturday August 9, 2003
There's no blocking so strict in Outlook Express that it can't be unblocked again:
Make Outlook Express receive mail from certain senders again.
Display Remote Images in a Message in Hotmail
Saturday August 9, 2003
When I have to choose between beer and water, I'll take water 9.9 times out of 10. Security is similar. I'll go for blocking remote images in ten out of ... Read More
Emoticons Mail 1.17 - Roll Your Own
Friday August 8, 2003
One of Emoticon Mail's biggest limitations was not being expandable. This truism is no more. Now you can not only insert smileys with rolling eyes but also roll your own ... Read More
Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook
Friday August 8, 2003
It's a shame Outlook doesn't come with effective spam filters built in. But it also gives you lots and lots of powerful add-ons to choose from:
You love Outlook but hate ... Read More
MSNBC.com Traces Spam, Finds Surprise Beneficiaries
Friday August 8, 2003
Under the premise that spam exists because there's money to be made with it MSNBC.com answered a lowest-mortgage-rate-ever spam and followed the money.
The companies that benefit from spam revealed some ... Read More
The End of Spam? At What Cost?
Friday August 8, 2003
The key to getting rid of spam probably is its economics.
On a diligently crafted Flash-only site, E Postal Exchange (there's also a HTML-only press release) explain their solution:
Commercial emails will ... Read More
Insert a Link in an Email with Eudora
Friday August 8, 2003
In spite of what some might think, the net is all about linking. Sure, this has an effect on the linked document -- the links to it clearly become part ... Read More
MailRelayer 1.4 - More Speed, More Security
Thursday August 7, 2003
MailRelayer, the IMAP server for the rest of us, gets even better with two new features:
SSL encryption for more security and
the option to convert HTML emails to plain text for ... Read More
Everybody's Just an Email Away (or Seven)
Thursday August 7, 2003
Joe mails Jim. Jim forwards the message Francoise, who sends it on to Christoph, who forwards to Meshark. Meshark sends it on to Da-Xia, who knows Katharina. And that's the ... Read More
Hide the Preview Pane in Outlook Express
Thursday August 7, 2003
Browsing and reading mail without the ever changing preview pane can be a lot less distractive and a lot more efficient, and you're limiting the risk of catching a worm ... Read More
textSOAP for Windows 1.6 - Whiter Than White
Thursday August 7, 2003
In many respects, we have a hygiene problem. Any obsession with purity must be met with suspicion... but email can't be clean enough. Misplaced > characters, lines that are too ... Read More
Check the Spelling as You Type in Mac OS X Mail
Thursday August 7, 2003
I turned on the spell checker to see what I got right. -- And?
If you make spelling mistakes as you type (and not sometime afterwards), you can have Mac OS ... Read More
RSS Bandit 1.1.0 - Where are my News?
Wednesday August 6, 2003
Whodunit? Where are my news? Ah... of course RSS Bandit has them. But why has it organized them so nicely?
RSS Bandit is a nice, simple feed reader that lets you ... Read More
Google News Email Alerts
Wednesday August 6, 2003
[via Jeremy Zawodny] New from the Google labs: Google News Alerts.
You can have Google monitor its News and send you an email either when a story matching your keywords is ... Read More
Does Dean Spam?
Wednesday August 6, 2003
Tristan Louis got an email containing an "important message" from Howard Dean, and it was spam.
Now he asks: was it Dean? Did anybody else get mail from EmailResults.net/Sportskill.com "paid for ... Read More
The Last Unicorn IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 6, 2003
No, the Unicorn in this letter is not really the last one. But it's impressive nonetheless:
››Send the most mythical creature of them all. (IncrediMail)
Get to Know The Bat!'s Mail Dispatcher
Wednesday August 6, 2003
If you're using The Bat!, you probably know that it has tons of features waiting to be discovered. Enter the Mail Dispatcher:
Hi, my name is Mail Dispatcher. I'm a bit ... Read More
Spammers Are Making Profits and Sales
Wednesday August 6, 2003
Now that we know why spammers don't even have to sell something to make a profit, Wired News has numbers (leaked by a spamorder site) what happens if they do.
The ... Read More
Maximize the Message Editor in Pegasus Mail
Wednesday August 6, 2003
Do you get distracted easily? I don't. When I'm doing one thing I have no eyes for anything else. (Have you seen the bird landing on this tiny branch over ... Read More
FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 3a - w.bloggar This
Tuesday August 5, 2003
Third time is a charm: beta 3 of FeedDemon, the pretty RSS feed reader for the rest of us, not only fixes a nasty bug (and a few less nasty ... Read More
Use Smileys to Add Emotions to Your Emails
Tuesday August 5, 2003
Smileys are not just for fun. Actually, the fun is hardly ever in the smiley, but it's the smiley that makes the recipient see the fun in what you've written. ... Read More
Are Spammers Making Profits, not Sales?
Tuesday August 5, 2003
Spammers don't need you to buy some product advertised in their junk. It's enough if you visit a site linked from spam (possibly carrying an innocent "opt out of future ... Read More
NewsGator 1.3 - That's Right: Usenet in Outlook
Tuesday August 5, 2003
NewsGator, the brilliant RSS feed reader (if only it did not require Outlook) gets an update that brings not only tons of small bug fixes and updates but also
support for ... Read More
View the Raw Source of an Email in FastMail
Tuesday August 5, 2003
"You can't eat that raw!" No, but you can look at it, and the raw source of an email may tell an interesting tale of where (which spammer) it's coming ... Read More
Karen's E-Mailer II 1.1 - Instant Canned Email
Monday August 4, 2003
No software is complete until it can send email to notify you about what's happening. And neither am I. With Karen's E-Mailer, I can send preset emails easily myself, and ... Read More
Change the Way Unread Messages are Highlighted in Outlook
Monday August 4, 2003
If "unread" was a verb, what would it mean?
In Outlook, you can define the meaning of "unread" (the adjective) quite flexibly and make it highlight new mail the way you ... Read More
Compose an IncrediMail Message from Anywhere in Windows
Monday August 4, 2003
You're in Word, but you'd rather write an email in IncrediMail? You're in Photoshop, but you'd rather write an email in IncrediMail? You're in ICQ, but you'd rather write an ... Read More
Newz Crawler 1.4.1 - Everything a News Reader Needs
Sunday August 3, 2003
R u newz? I don't really like that kind of language, but I like Newz Crawler all the more. It's a pity that I can't use it to read my ... Read More
Save a Message as Text with Outlook Express
Sunday August 3, 2003
There's no guarantee for programs to exist in the future that can read the entangled file format used by Outlook Express to save your emails. But it's very likely there'll ... Read More
Configure Outlook Express to Work with POPFile
Sunday August 3, 2003
I certainly won't use Outlook Express without POPFile (but with spam) again.
Do you want your email in Outlook Express to be filtered through a supreme anti-spam tool? Here's how to ... Read More
Sand Castle IncrediMail Letter
Sunday August 3, 2003
My sand is my castle, this letter is my delight:
›› This sand castle is built forever, and for great emails. (IncrediMail)
LCARS Mail - Email Like in a Star Trek Movie
Saturday August 2, 2003
Who would have thought the LCARS interface is so user friendly? Try it in LCARS Mail:
LCARS Mail is a solid email client with an exceptional LCARS interface (the one you ... Read More
SharpReader 0.9.2.1 - A Sharper Eye on Security
Saturday August 2, 2003
SharpReader, the gentleperson's RSS feed reader, gets an update that
improves security,
always uses your default browser for opening links in new windows and
has rudimental pop-up blocking as well as
several bug fixes.
SharpReader ... Read More
Create Perfectly Formatted Emails in PocoMail
Saturday August 2, 2003
I'd take care to format my emails nicely if it wasn't sooo boring to hit return here and backspace there, repair broken '>' characters and what not. — Tada! PocoMail ... Read More
Aggie 1.0 - HTML or Mail, That's no Question
Friday August 1, 2003
There's no better place to read RSS feeds than your email client. While Aggie itself isn't a particularly good place to read news, it can aggregate them and send them ... Read More
The Hoax is a Worm, and a Virus
Friday August 1, 2003
Not every warning is founded on a real danger. (This is a warning!)
Are you your computer's most dangerous virus? Or is that just a hoax? Find out how hoaxes and ... Read More
Is SMTP Responsible for Spam?
Friday August 1, 2003
Is it the end of the road for SMTP, the protocol that lets email travel, asks CNET's Paul Festa.
The apparently unstoppable rise of spam is caused by
SMTP's openness, claim many, ... Read More
Understanding "Buckets" in POPFile
Friday August 1, 2003
POPFile is a great anti-spam tool, but it is much more than that. It can automatically file all your incoming mail to categories that make sense. Key to getting the ... Read More