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Can not reply to emails in Outlook

Subscriber John from Australia wrote about some problems he was having with Word 2003 and Outlook (presumably Outlook 2003). John wrote: Cannot reply to emails in Outlook & Trouble with AutoText 1. I cannot type a reply to an email in the usual manner. When I try to type a reply, my typing does not [...]

Choosing to Send Plain Text or HTML in Outlook Emails

One of the first things many people do, when they find that Outlook will let them use different fonts and stationery in their emails, is to start experimenting. While personal friends may think these are cute, we quickly realize that many others don’t want to all the glitz and glitter — they read emails and [...]

Anti-Spam Program Choices

Subscriber and long-time reader Scott Adler wrote to me about his experiences with three of the various anti-spam programs. I’ve used Mailwasher Pro and PopFile and like both, but they are entirely different in their approach to spam. My current choice is PopFile. I’ve also mentioned iHateSpam, which is from the same company that offers [...]

Emails and Spam Filters

Several people recently have had the emails, that they sent, fall victim to spam filters somewhere before getting to their recipients. In one case of which I know, the email was sent to a mailing list. Many mailing list programs have filtering routines that are designed to block unwanted messages — not just blocking unsolicited [...]

Compacting Email Folders

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that? All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]