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IncrediMail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Get the most of IncrediMail, the fun email client with its unique interface and strong support for stationery, animations, and sound.

Your Weekly IncrediMail Tip - Free E-Course

Get the most out of IncrediMail with tutorials delivered right to your IncrediMail inbox. The tips come in weekly doses, to nurture and amuse without overwhelming stomach or attention span.

How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in IncrediMail Using POP

Download mail from a free Windows Live Hotmail account to IncrediMail comfortably.

Most Popular IncrediMail Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

Isn't it incredible? An email program that can do many a thing and cares to look good, too! IncrediMail even makes the emails you write look better — effortlessly. Now learn to use IncrediMail better — effortlessly, with the tips, tricks and tutorials other IncrediMail users have found most useful.

Accessing Hotmail from IncrediMail and the Web

Make sure you can still access your Hotmail messages via the Web after you have downloaded them to IncrediMail.

Add a Sender to the IncrediMail Address Book Quickly

If you send me an email, I have you in my address book within seconds. Here's how easy IncrediMail makes it to add the sender of any email to your address book.

Add a Voice Message to an Email with IncrediMail

Say it in your own voice. Here's how to add voicemail recordings to your emails with IncrediMail.

Append Your Signature Automatically in IncrediMail

Sign by the piece with IncrediMail, which can append your signature to all outgoing emails automatically.

Approve a Domain in IncrediMail

Make sure you don't have to hunt IncrediMail's "Junk & Unapproved" folder for mail from people you know or for newsletters you want to receive.

Attach a File With Drag and Drop in IncrediMail

Create file attachments with the swift of your mouse in IncrediMail.

Back up or Copy Your IncrediMail Address Book

Save a copy of your IncrediMail address book, either to restore it in IncrediMail when the origin is lost or to move it to a different email program.

Block a Sender in IncrediMail

Send annoying mail to the trash automatically with IncrediMail.

Check for New Mail Periodically with IncrediMail

IncrediMail butler, check my mail on your own, please.

Check the Spelling of Every Message Automatically in IncrediMail

IncrediMail can make sure all messages you send go out spelled perfectly well by invoking the spell checker automatically as you click "Send".

Continue Editing a Draft Message in IncrediMail

Finish unfinished messages in IncrediMail.

Create a Handwritten Signature in IncrediMail

Sign here: ______, and IncrediMail will use your handwritten signature as your email signature.

Create a Mailing List in IncrediMail

Set up a group in IncrediMail, and distribute messages to multiple recipients easily.

Create a Signature in IncrediMail

Sign your emails with style in IncrediMail, and use a few lines of text appended to every email you send for contact info, quotations or promotion.

Create Folders to Organize Messages in IncrediMail

Bring some folders to the email chaos in IncrediMail, and get your emails organized.

Define a Default Letter in IncrediMail

I'll take the "rice fields" letter, as always. Here's how to make your favorite IncrediMail letter the default for new messages.

Delete a Message Bypassing the Trash in IncrediMail

Delete messages immediately, permanently and efficiently in IncrediMail.

Don't Clog the Mail Server with Very Old Mail in IncrediMail

Tell IncrediMail to delete mail from the server a certain time after downloading it.

Empty the "Deleted Items" Folder in IncrediMail to Purge Trashed Mail

Rid yourself of messages long deleted but still kept in the "Deleted Items" folder in IncrediMail. It may speed up things a bit, too.

Empty the Trash Automatically When You Exit IncrediMail

Have IncrediMail clean up for you by emptying the "Deleted Items" folder of deleted messages when you exit.

Find And Open Your IncrediMail Data Folder and Message Store

Locate and access the directory in which IncrediMail keeps all your data so you can back up individual folders, for example, or apply fixes in case of failure.

How to Recover IncrediMail Folders That Have Mysteriously Disappeared

You just launched IncrediMail, and your personal folders have disappeared? Possibly you'll just have to delete one little file to bring them back.

Find Out How Many Messages an IncrediMail Folder Contains

My IncrediMail Inbox is how many messages thick exactly?

Find Out Which Version of IncrediMail You Have Installed

Identify your version of IncrediMail, and the precise build number, too.

Get Daily Content for IncrediMail

New IncrediMail letters, cards, animations, sounds and notifiers every day.

Highlight Mail from a Sender With a Color in IncrediMail

Bob is yellow in my IncrediMail, Chris is orange, but you are red. Here's how to have IncrediMail mark messages from a sender with a color automatically.

How to Access a Free AIM Mail Account with IncrediMail

AIM Mail and IncrediMail make a dynamic duo of great email service and rich email client. Here's how to set up IncrediMail to receive and send mail from and through your AIM Mail account.

How to Access a Free Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

Download mail from a free Hotmail account to IncrediMail comfortably.

How to Access a Gmail Account in IncrediMail

Download all mail you receive at your Gmail account into IncrediMail, and send the rich messages you're used to through Gmail as well (with a copy archived online).

How to Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

That's where IncrediMail gets really hot: receive and send Windows Live Hotmail from within IncrediMail.

How to Access an AOL Email Account with IncrediMail

Do you have to use the good old (though more old than good) AOL program to access your AOL email? Of course not. Try the spectacular and playful yet still solid IncrediMail, for example. Setting it up to receive and send AOL emails is easy.

How to Access Free Yahoo! Mail with IncrediMail

Fretting over Yahoo! Mail not offering POP access so you can use it with IncrediMail? Don't. Here's how to access a free Yahoo! Mail account in IncrediMail.

How to Access Your Email Remotely From Another Computer and Location

Would you like to access your email not only from the computer at home or work but also remotely from any place and computer with an internet connection?

How to Add a Custom MIDI or WAV Sound File to IncrediMail

If you have a file you'd love to use as background sound in an email, for example, you can make IncrediMail recognize it so you can insert it right from the "Style Box".

How to Add Background Sound to an Email Message in IncrediMail

Enrich your emails with background music. Here's how to set the right tone in IncrediMail.

How to Add Bcc Recipients in IncrediMail

Send emails to blind carbon copy recipients — recipients that do not show up in the recipient list — with IncrediMail.

How to Associate IncrediMail with EML Files

If you're tired of Outlook Express launching whenever you click an email file or a forwarded message in IncrediMail, here's how to make these .eml files open in IncrediMail automatically.

How to Back Up IncrediMail Emails, Contacts, and other Data

Saving a backup copy of your IncrediMail messages, contacts, settings, and more is incredibly easy.

How to Back Up or Copy Your IncrediMail Letter Collection

When you move to a new computer, copying your IncrediMail settings and emails is easy, but what about the assortment of letters you have installed? Here's how you can create copies for transfer or backup of your entire IncrediMail letter collection, too.

How to Add a Custom MIDI or WAV Sound File to IncrediMail

Click on the desired file with the right mouse button.

How to Change a Message's Priority in IncrediMail

Choose a special IncrediMail letter, and high priority, too, for your important messages.

How to Change the Default Font for Composing Mail in IncrediMail

Do you use your beautiful legible and crisp favorite font for each email you compose in IncrediMail? And have to choose it manually every time you start writing a message? Not any more. Here's how to make your favorite font the default for composing emails with IncrediMail.

How to Check the Spelling as You Type in IncrediMail

Make the emails your write in IncrediMail look like homework with all spelling mistakes highlighted.

How to Check Your Spelling Quickly in IncrediMail

Sloppy typist to IncrediMail: F7! Here's the quick way to have your emails checked for spelling mistakes in IncrediMail.

How to Color-Code Mail from a Certain Account in IncrediMail

Do you want to know which account the messages in your IncrediMail Inbox are from? Here's how to color-code them by account automatically.

How to Compose a New Message from the Tray with IncrediMail

If you need to start composing a new message quickly in IncrediMail, one of the fastest ways is to do it via IncrediMail's system tray icon.

How to Compose a New Message Quickly with IncrediMail

Start composing fascinating IncrediMail messages faster.

How to Compose an IncrediMail Message from Anywhere in Windows

You don't have to switch to IncrediMail to start composing an email. Here's how to make use of a keyboard shortcut that works anywhere in Windows.

How to Copy Text Formatting Swiftly with the IncrediMail Format Painter

In IncrediMail, you can copy the formatting (font styles and sizes as well as colors) from one part to another with a few mouse strokes.

How to Edit Your IncrediMail User Dictionary

Have you inadvertently added a misspelled word to your IncrediMail spell checker's user dictionary? Here's how to edit or remove that phrase.

How to Enable System-Wide IncrediMail Keyboard Shortcuts

Make essential functionality of IncrediMail easily accessible from anywhere in Windows with keyboard shortcuts that work everywhere.

How to Export Mail from IncrediMail to Another Email Program

Switch from IncrediMail to another email client and take your messages with you. Here's how to import mail from IncrediMail into Outlook Express or Windows Mail, for example.

How to Filter Mail from Unknown Senders to the Junk Folder

Without a JunkFilter Plus subscription, you can still have IncrediMail filter junk mail to the Junk Mail folder effectively.

How to Find Messages in IncrediMail

Search your archive of email messages efficiently in IncrediMail and find exactly the emails you are looking for.

How to Find Your IncrediMail Data Folder

Open the directory where IncrediMail keeps all your messages, letters, settings, and more.

How to Forward a Message with IncrediMail

Share an email with other email users easily in IncrediMail by forwarding it.

How to Have IncrediMail Complete Recipient Names and Addresses

IncrediMail can help you address messages by presenting matching contacts from your address book as soon as you start typing a name or email address.

How to Hide the Preview Pane in IncrediMail

Don't like IncrediMail to open emails automatically? Here's how to prevent that by disabling the preview pane.

How to Import or Recover Your IncrediMail Letter Collection

Bring with you to a new computer your entire collection of IncrediMail letters, or bring them back after you hard disk has failed, for example.

How to Insert a Picture in an IncrediMail Message

A picture says more than 1000 emails � but you can combine the two with IncrediMail easily by inserting an image inline in your message.

How to Log Receiving and Sending in IncrediMail for Troubleshooting

When sending or receiving mail fails in IncrediMail, it can be helpful to make it keep a detailed log of what it does, tries and attempts so you — or a tech support person — can get a better idea of where to look for solutions.

How to Prevent IncrediMail from Checking Mail When You Launch It

IncrediMail likes doing things automatically, but this may not always be the best option. Here's how to stop IncrediMail from downloading new mail the moment you launch it.

How to Look up a Word Definition or Translation in IncrediMail

In IncrediMail, word definitions from online encyclopaedias and even translations from many a language are just a mouse click away.

How to Make Previewing Mail More Secure in IncrediMail

Read mail conveniently in the IncrediMail preview pane without putting your computer or privacy at risk.

How to Open IncrediMail Quickly with a Windows-Wide Keyboard Shortcut

The IncrediMail window is just a keystroke away — if you use this swift keyboard shortcut that works anywhere in Windows.

How to Prevent IncrediMail from Starting Automatically with Windows

If you find it annoying that IncrediMail starts automatically whenever you boot Windows, here's how to turn this off.

How to Print Your IncrediMail Address Book

Send your IncrediMail contacts to the printer, and take them with you.

How to Protect Your Email with Password and Encryption in Windows

Want to make sure other people with access to your computer cannot open your mail? Here's how to protect your email program data with your Windows log-on password and maybe even encryption.

How to Recover IncrediMail Folders That Have Mysteriously Disappeared

You just launched IncrediMail, and your personal folders have disappeared? Possibly, you'll just have to delete one little file to bring them back.

How to Remove Addresses from the IncrediMail Auto-Complete List

Does IncrediMail suggest wrong, unneeded or whimsical email addresses when you start typing recipients for your messages? Here's how to get rid of them and clean your auto-complete list in IncrediMail.

How to Remove the IncrediMail Advertising Banner from Emails You Send

Don't pay for using IncrediMail by having it place ads in every email you send.

How to Rescue or Import Mail from an Old Computer or IncrediMail Installation

Are your old messages trapped in the old, now kaput computer? If you can get hold of the hard disk and if the disk is still functional, you can import all your mail elegantly into IncrediMail.

How to Save a Message as a Draft in IncrediMail

Not enough time to finish your message? Have IncrediMail save a copy and continue later.

How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in IncrediMail

It's easy to mail a group of people in IncrediMail and have all recipients see only "Undisclosed recipients" as the sole addressee.

How to Set up a Vacation Auto-Reply in IncrediMail

While you are away, IncrediMail replies to incoming emails automatically, letting people know you'll be able to tend to their messages in person later.

How to Shut Down IncrediMail Completely

IncrediMail! Will you please shut down?! Here's how to not only close IncrediMail's main window but shut it down completely.

How to Stop IncrediMail from Capitalizing Words

Does your IncrediMail try to force the capitalization of words, even where this makes no sense? Before that drives you crazy, turn off IncrediMail's automatic capitalizing of letters.

How to Stop IncrediMail from Playing Background Music

Do you want to read your emails undisturbed? Do you dread opening your emails to suddenly blaring speakers? Here's how to disable all incoming emails' background music in IncrediMail.

How to Suggest a Feature or Improvement for IncrediMail

IncrediMail is almost perfect — and you know at least one thing that's missing? Here's how to suggest a new feature or improvement to IncrediMail's makers.

How to Try Different Letter Designs with a Message in IncrediMail

Write the content of your message first, and pick an IncrediMail letter that suits it later.

How to Turn Off 3D Animations in IncrediMail

Simple is fast is beautiful is no 3D animations in IncrediMail. Here's how to turn off the sometimes annoying animations.

How to Use a Random Letter for New Messages in IncrediMail

Start every new mail in IncrediMail with a surprise — a random stationery from your collection.

How to View All Message Headers in IncrediMail

Ah, those boring lines! See them all in IncrediMail, to trace spam, for example.

How to Write a Plain Text Message in IncrediMail

Even in colorful and spectacular IncrediMail, you can use the plain text IncrediMail letter and write disarmingly simple emails.

Import Animations from the Web in IncrediMail

Use animations from any Web site in the emails you write with IncrediMail.

Increase the Text Size When Reading Mail in IncrediMail

When the tiny font size in an email is giving your eyes a hard time, here's how to make IncrediMail display the text using bigger type.

IncrediMail Collects Anonymous Usage Data

As you use letters, animations and other "Style Box" content, IncrediMail counts each item's usage to build the list of most popular content.

Insert a Link to a Web Page in Emails with IncrediMail

Links make it easy to get from one place another on the web. Here's how to use them in your IncrediMail emails, too, to link to your favorite web sites.

Insert Recipients from the Address Book in IncrediMail

Stop typing email addresses. Insert them by point and click from your IncrediMail address book instead.

Insert the Last Used Smiley Fast in IncrediMail

Your favorite graphical emoticon is only one click away in IncrediMail.

Install Additional Spell Checker Dictionaries in IncrediMail

If you want (or need) to write emails in a language other than English, you don't have to do without the IncrediMail spell checker. Here's how to install additional language dictionaries.

Install an IncrediMail Letter from Email You Have Received

Have you ever wished you could use the great backgrounds, animations and sounds you see in other people's emails in your own? You can. Here's how to add the IncrediMail letter used for an email you have received to your IncrediMail Style Box.

Install an IncrediMail Letter

Import great letter content into IncrediMail.

How to Rescue or Import Mail from an Old Computer or IncrediMail Insta

Are your old messages trapped in the old, now kaput computer? If you can get hold of the hard disk and if the disk is still functional, you can import all your mail elegantly into IncrediMail.

Install Zipped IncrediMail Letters

Download, unzip, install: installing zipped IncrediMail letters in a few easy steps.

Leave a Copy of Downloaded Mail at the Server in IncrediMail

Have IncrediMail keep copies of downloaded messages on the server so you can re-retrieve them later.

Make IncrediMail Hang Up Automatically After Exchanging Mail

Don't stay connected longer than it is necessary for IncrediMail to exchange mail.

Move Messages via Drag and Drop in IncrediMail

Message movin', message movin'! Moving messages is easy in IncrediMail if you use your mouse to drag and drop.

Organize Your IncrediMail Letters, Animations, and Styles

Keep your IncrediMail letters, animations and other styles organized by moving them to appropriate folders.

Print Part of an Email in IncrediMail

If you need just a small part of a long email on paper, here's how to print exactly the portion you need in IncrediMail.

Protect Your IncrediMail Identity with a Password

Don't allow everybody to access your emails by just starting IncrediMail. Here's how to password-protect your IncrediMail identity.

Request a Read Receipt for a Message in IncrediMail

Want to know whether a message you sent was received and read? Here's how to request a read receipt for an email in IncrediMail.

Restore IncrediMail Email and Other Data from a Backup

Recover all your essential IncrediMail data (mail, contacts, settings) from a backup copy in some simple steps.

Send a File Attachment with IncrediMail

Glue files to emails in IncrediMail and send them around the world easily: here's how to attach files in IncrediMail.

Send a Message to a Mailing List with IncrediMail

Once you have a mailing list in IncrediMail, sending a message to multiple recipients is easy.

Set up a Mail Filter in IncrediMail

Message rules are great (to have your mail sorted automatically, for example), and in IncrediMail they are easy to set up, too.

Specify a Default Language for the IncrediMail Spell Checker

IncrediMail checks your language. Here's how to make IncrediMail use the language you write most of your emails in for spell checking by default.

Specify a Special IncrediMail Notifier for a Particular Sender

Have IncrediMail announce mail from dad with a dog, mail from your friends with a butler, and mail from your boss with...

Specify the Account Used to Send a Message in IncrediMail

Tell IncrediMail which email address it should put in the From: header of an outgoing message.

Try a Random Letter for Your IncrediMail Message Quickly

If you can't decide which letter to use for a message you are composing, let IncrediMail decide — and decide again, and decide again, until you like what you see.

How to Associate IncrediMail with EML Files

If you're tired of Outlook Express launching whenever you click an email file or a forwarded message in IncrediMail, here's how to make these .eml files open in IncrediMail automatically.

Turn Off 3D Animations in IncrediMail

Simple is fast is beautiful is no 3D animations in IncrediMail. Here's how to turn off the sometimes annoying animations.

Turn off the IncrediMail Welcome Sound

If the IncrediMail welcome sound is more annoying and embarrassing than welcome, here's how to turn it off for good.

Unblock a Sender in IncrediMail

If you have inadvertently blocked a sender whose emails you do want to read in IncrediMail, here's how to remove them from the list of blocked senders again.

View the Source of a Message with IncrediMail

A bit of archeology is involved, but you can do that, you can dig the sources in IncrediMail.

How to Use a Random Letter for New Messages in IncrediMail

Start every new mail in IncrediMail with a surprise — a random stationery from your collection.

Hide the Preview Pane in IncrediMail

Don't like IncrediMail to open emails automatically? Here's how to prevent that by disabling the preview pane.

How to Change the Default Font for Composing Mail in IncrediMail

Do you use your beautiful legible and crisp favorite font for each email you compose in IncrediMail? And have to choose it manually every time you start writing a message? Not any more. Here's how to make your favorite font the default for composing emails with IncrediMail.

How to Set up a Vacation Auto-Reply in IncrediMail

While you are away, IncrediMail replies to incoming emails automatically, letting people know you'll be able to tend to their messages in person later.

How to Access a Free AIM Mail Account with IncrediMail

AIM Mail and IncrediMail make a dynamic duo of great email service and rich email client. Here's how to set up IncrediMail to receive and send mail from and through your AIM Mail account.

How to Request a Read Receipt for a Message in IncrediMail

Want to know whether a message you sent was received and read? Here's how to request a read receipt for an email in IncrediMail.

How to Access a Free Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

Download mail from a free Hotmail account to IncrediMail comfortably.

How to Access an AOL Email Account with IncrediMail

Do you have to use the good old (though more old than good) AOL program to access your AOL email? Of course not. Try the spectacular and playful yet still solid IncrediMail, for example. Setting it up to receive and send AOL emails is easy.

How to Access a Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

That's where IncrediMail gets really hot: receive and send Hotmail from within IncrediMail.

How to Access a Gmail Account in IncrediMail

Download all mail you receive at your Gmail account into IncrediMail, and send the rich messages you're used to through Gmail as well (with a copy archived online).

How to Find And Open Your IncrediMail Data Folder and Message Store

Locate and access the directory in which IncrediMail keeps all your data so you can back up individual folders, for example, or apply fixes in case of failure.

How to Import or Recover Your IncrediMail Letter Collection

Bring with you to a new computer your entire collection of IncrediMail letters, or bring them back after you hard disk has failed, for example.

How to Back Up or Copy Your IncrediMail Letter Collection

When you move to a new computer, copying your IncrediMail settings and emails is easy, but what about the assortment of letters you have installed? Here's how you can create copies for transfer or backup of your entire IncrediMail letter collection, too.

Restore IncrediMail Email and Other Data from a Backup

How to restore IncrediMail email and other data from a backup.

How to Access a Gmail Account in IncrediMail

Download all mail you receive at your Gmail account into IncrediMail, and send the rich messages you're used to through Gmail as well (with a copy archived online).

Back Up IncrediMail Emails, Contacts, and other Data Step by Step

Saving a backup copy of your IncrediMail messages, contacts, settings, and more is incredibly easy.
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