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12/31/01 - Top Email Cleanup Utilities for Windows (Updated)
Forwarded emails frequently contain > signs in all the wrong places. Fortunately, there are utilities that will remove these annoying characters and reformat the mail for easier reading and further usage.

12/31/01 - textSOAP for Windows
Remove all > characters, unwanted spaces, line breaks, HTML codes, and much more easily to get clean, pure text for use in your emails.

12/30/01 - Top Anti-Spam Tools for Windows (Updated)
Anti-spam tools can remove all the junk before it enters your inbox. Here are my top picks.

12/30/01 - Inbox Protector
Keep your Outlook Inbox clean with this easy to use and efficient anti-spam tool.

12/29/01 - textSOAP for Mac
If you want your emails, replies and forwards to look clean and properly formatted, textSOAP is the perfect detergent.

12/26/01 - MailLight
Announces new mail you get in Eudora elegantly in the Mac OS X menu bar.

12/25/01 - Mac OS X Mail
The solid, feature-rich and easy to use email client that comes with an equally powerful operating system.

12/24/01 - Yahoo! Mail (Updated)
Can the world's favorite directory provide the best free email account?

12/24/01 - DEye
Try a simple mail checker that works just as advertised.

12/23/01 - TickerMyMail
Get new mail announced to you in a stock ticker like way.

12/22/01 - Group Mail Free
If you want to send personalized emails to a (not too large) group of people, there's hardly a better choice than Group Mail Free.

12/22/01 - Campaign
Send professional bulk emails easily and fast.

12/21/01 - Broadc@st HTML
If you want one powerful and flexible application that handles all your email marketing needs, the excellent Broadc@st HTML could be it.

12/20/01 - Scrippy
Everybody can create wonderful stationery for Outlook Express with this easy and fun to use tool.

12/20/01 - PowerMail
What's in a name? A lot of power, says the Mac email client PowerMail and fulfills the promise of its name.

12/18/01 - Top Anti-Spam Tools for Windows
Anti-spam tools can remove all the junk before it enters your inbox. Here are my top picks.

12/18/01 - MailWasher (Updated)
Are you tired of all that spam you receive ever day? Get this powerful, elegant and effective solution.

12/17/01 - SpamKiller
Get a powerful and sophisticated anti-spam tool that is still easy to use and gets the job done.

12/17/01 - Mass e-Mailer
A solid bulk email tool needs flexible mail merge capabilities. Mass e-Mailer has them.

12/16/01 - TabMail
Try a simple email client with Unicode support and PGP integration.

12/16/01 - Pegasus Mail (Updated)
Looking for a stable, free and powerful email client for Windows? Take a look at Pegasus Mail.

12/16/01 - Mach5 Mailer
Send flexibly personalized and efficiently professional bulk emails fast with this excellent email marketing tool.

12/15/01 - MiraMail
Provide efficient customer and internal communication with this interesting email center approach.

12/14/01 - AllegroMail (Updated)
Can this promising email client with its unique features set your email tempo to allegro assai?

12/14/01 - MailTap
Get a simple mail checker that is easy to use and elegant.

12/14/01 - Kaufman Mail Warrior
Does a fully featured email client need to be big?

12/13/01 - SentThere
Do you want to know when somebody opens your email? SentThere will tell you instantly and (almost) always.

12/13/01 - Popcorn
The email client that fits on a floppy.

12/12/01 - Spam Buster
Your anti-spam tool needs not be fancy or pretty, it just needs to work? Take a look at the very practical Spam Buster.

12/11/01 - EmC
Try a capable anti-spam and antivirus tool with an interesting interface.

12/11/01 - Top Email Appliances
The best ways to send and receive email without a computer.

12/10/01 - Mail Snoop
Has everything a great spam filtering tool needs, and some overzealous filters, too.

12/09/01 - SpamWeasel
An anti-spam tool needs flexibility and power. SpamWeasel delivers both with its scripting language for filtering rules.

12/08/01 - InBox Filter
InBox Filter is easy to use and simple, but sometimes it is too simple to be useful.

12/07/01 - MailSweep
Want to delete spam right at the server instead of in your email program's inbox? MailSweep makes this easy and convenient.

12/06/01 - MailWasher
Are you tired of all that spam you receive ever day? Get this powerful, elegant and effective solution.

12/05/01 - Extractor Pro
Extractor Pro can extract (import) email addresses, too. But for the most part it's an all-around, albeit not perfect bulk email application.

12/04/01 - Gammadyne Mailer
Get an extremely powerful and flexible bulk email application, but prepare for an unpleasant surprise.

12/02/01 - WorldCast
Looking for a one-stop solution to maintaining a clean list and sending bulk emails fast? Look no further than WorldCast.

12/02/01 - Mail Bomber
Send not mail bombs, but highly customizable email messages in bulk easily.

12/01/01 - Mail Them Pro
Mail Them Pro takes care of almost all aspects of sending emails in bulk, and does it in an easy-to-use manner.

10/29/01 - How Does Carnivore Work?
The FBI's Carnivore surveillance system can intercept any Network activity, most prominently email. Find out how it works, and whether this privacy threat can be controlled.

10/01/01 - Three Good Reasons for Using a Mail Checker
Even though any decent email program can check for new mail periodically it can make sense to use a dedicated email checker for that job.

09/24/01 - How Does the Nimda Worm Work?
Find out how Nimda can be executed by just opening an email, and how you can secure your computer from that threat.

09/10/01 - How Does Uuencoding Work?
Find out how uuencoding makes it possible to send arbitrary data via plain text email.

09/03/01 - More Fun With Emoticons
Let's have some more fun with smileys.

08/27/01 - Is Replying Late a Status Symbol?
If you want to mail like a CEO, you should probably not mail at all.

08/20/01 - HTML Newsletters: Advantages and Disadvantages for Subscribers
Why should you go for HTML newsletters and their rich formatting? What is the price to pay if you do?

08/13/01 - Text-Only Newsletters: Advantages and Disadvantages for Subscribers
Should you choose the text-only version of your favorite newsletter?

08/06/01 - Making Email Feedback Stick
Five steps to stop wasting this valuable resource by filing and forgetting.

07/30/01 - Fun with Emoticons
Let's have some fun with smileys.

07/23/01 - How Spammers Get Your Email Address
Why spam finds you everywhere. The techniques employed by spammers.

07/16/01 - How Does Handwritten Email Work?
Wish you could send handwritten notes, sketches, drawings and charts? Here's how it works.

07/09/01 - Accessing Your Email on Vacation
You're off, but that does not need to mean you are off email, too. Here's how to read and write email on the road.

07/02/01 - How Does Base64 Encoding Work?
You send files and international characters without the blink of an eye. Now learn about the technology that makes that possible.

06/25/01 - Handling POP Errors
If your email client tells you something is wrong with your POP, it might not mean your guitar playing.

06/18/01 - How Spammers Obscure Their Address
Spammers try to hide by playing all kinds of tricks to their domain names. You can still find them, however.

06/11/01 - How Does MIME Work?
Find out how MIME makes it easy to send attachments with email.

06/04/01 - The Hoax is a Worm, and a Virus
Are you your computer's most dangerous virus? Or is that just a hoax?

05/28/01 - FormMail Can Send Spam, but You Can Prevent That
Find out how your Web server can be used to send spam, and how you can prevent that.

05/21/01 - How Documentation is Saved and Lost in Email
When people talk at work, they sometimes talk about work, too.

05/14/01 - How Does Public Key Encryption Work?
Find out how public key encryption can make email more private.

04/30/01 - Use Smileys to Add Emotion to Your Emails
With emoticons, you can avoid misconceptions in email messages.

04/23/01 - Use Message Priorities
All email messages are important. But some are more important than others, and indicating that can help us communicate better.

04/16/01 - How Do These Novel Email Return Receipts Work?
It is compelling to know when somebody has opened your message. But how do such services work, and do they always work?

04/02/01 - Organizing Messages in Mailboxes
Simplify filing and finding messages, your mailbox layout, and your life.

03/19/01 - Use Your Inbox as a To Do List
How to turn your email inbox into a self-administrating to do list.

03/12/01 - Rebel Email Clients: PowerMail
Try a database-centered email client alternative for the Mac.

03/05/01 - Why You Should Not Print Your Email Messages
It's obvious, but still: here's why.

02/19/01 - Set up a Mailing List in Outlook Express for Windows
Start your own newsletter with Outlook Express.

02/12/01 - Why You Should Print Your Email Messages
Printing your mails has benefits. Burning them is just one.

01/22/01 - Rescue Your Email from Netscape 6
Export your important email messages from Netscape 6 to other email clients like Eudora or Outlook Express.

01/15/01 - Search and Find Email Addresses with the ICQ White Pages
The ICQ White Pages are a powerful tool when you are looking for someone's email address.

01/01/01 - Change the Default Browser in Eudora for Macintosh
Eudora has its own idea what your default browser for following highlighted URLs in email messages should be. Find out how to make your default also Eudora's.

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