Outlook Express Tips for Reading and Receving Mail

Email without peril. Here's how to secure Outlook Express so you can read and preview messages freely and still sleep well knowing you are not putting your computer at risk.

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?

You don't want to keep emptying the "Deleted Items" folder? You don't want it to grow big and slow either? Here's how to make Outlook Express do the emptying for you — automatically and whenever you exit the program.

Here's the door! (And woe to you if I find you in the Outlook Express trash instead...) — Here's how to purge mail immediately in Outlook Express, bypassing the "Trash" folder.

Sort the emails in your Outlook Express Inbox or in any other folder from newest to oldest, by size, alphabetically, or by another order you desire.

See previous messages in a conversation right next to the new ones — automatically arranged by Outlook Express.

Outlook Express does not remember you want to read your mail maximized? Never mind, you can still make it display the messages to fill the screen.

Has Outlook Express arranged your email folders in the order it deems correct and now does not allow you to place the mailboxes most important to you on top? Here's how to sort your list of Outlook Express folders in the order you prefer.

Do you think attached files should appear as icons, not inline in the message body — even if they be images? Here's how to convince Outlook Express of this your preference and make it show image attachments properly.

Is the list of messages in a folder small, tiny and barely legible? Here's how to increase the font size (or choose a different font altogether) for message lists, folder names and other display items in Outlook Express.

The Subject of a received email can be subject to change in Outlook Express: give incoming emails the meaningful Subject line you want and wish the sender had used.

Can't see the remaining important messages because Outlook Express still displays all the remaining deleted messages in a folder? Here's how to hide the latter to highlight and see clearly the former.

When you delete a message in an IMAP email account in Outlook Express, it is not physically deleted right away. For this to happen and to keep your Inbox lean, small and clean, you have to purge folders.

See what you want to see. Here's how to specify which info you want to see in a mailbox in Outlook Express.

Show the account in the Outlook Express message list to see immediately which account received an email.