ReminderFox Addon for Mozilla ThunderBird

             ReminderFox places reminders and to-do items right before your email-hungry eyes in Mozilla Thunderbird. ReminderFox reminders attach to messages neatly, but unfortunately cannot take email status in account ("alert me if I haven't replied to this email in the next three days")

Description:

    * ReminderFox shows you reminders in Mozilla Thunderbird window status bars.
    * You can create periodic reminders and to-do items in ReminderFox.
    * Hovering over the ReminderFox status with the mouse displays full reminders.
    * You can import and export reminders to and from ReminderFox or synchronize using WebDAV.
    * You can add a reminder to any message, and later open the email easily from within ReminderFox.
    * Reminders can be organized with categories and found easily using fast search.
    * ReminderFox can turn iCal events received in emails into reminders and you can create reminders by dragging and dropping.
    * On Windows, ReminderFox can display a reminder pop-up from the system tray.
    * ReminderFox supports Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Firefox.

Advantages:

   * ReminderFox displays periodic and one-time reminders as well as to-do items in Thunderbird
    * You can attach reminders to emails and open the message fast from ReminderFox
    * Reminders from ReminderFox are unobtrusive yet effective

Inserting picture into Email body in Mozilla ThunderBird

 

           Sending images as attachments is fun, but sending them inline in the message can be even more fun. To do this, you need not even include the image in your mail directly. It's enough to point to the image somewhere on the Web.

Of course, you can also copy the image location in an Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera window. Now you can include the image in an email message in Mozilla Thunderbird:

To insert a picture in the body of an email so it will be sent inline with Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Create a new message in Mozilla Thunderbird.
    * Position the cursor where you want the image to appear in the body of the email.
    * Select Insert | Image from the menu.

    

    * Use the Choose File... selector to locate and open the desired graphic.
          o If your image is larger than some 640x640 pixels, consider shrinking it to more handy proportions. 


    * Click OK.

Adding Signature in Mozilla ThunderBird

             Creating a signature in Mozilla Thunderbird isn't as simple as typing one into the program, but it's not hard to do. Follow these steps to create and upload a signature into Mozilla Thunderbird so you can share it with all of your contacts. 

Steps to be followed:
   

1. Decide on your signature's content. Many people like to include links to their business and personal contact information like title, address, phone number and instant messenger username. While the options are limitless, a simple closing with your name also works.
   

2.Launch the Notepad application or any other text editor.
   

3. Type your signature in the text editing program. To create a simple signature, type your content as you want it to appear. Code it in HTML if you want a more dynamic signature. Be sure to include all the appropriate tags.
   

4.Save your new signature. If the signature file contains only a plain signature, save it as a text file. Save HTML signatures as HTML files.
   

5. Open Thunderbird. Select Tools and Account Settings from the program's menu. Click on your account's email address. Check the Attach This Signature option, click Choose, browse your hard drive for your signature file and attach it by pressing Open. Click OK in the Account Settings panel to save your changes.
   

6.Test your signature by sending an email to another email address. Checking that your signature works before using it with your contacts is a sensible safeguard.

New Features of Eudora Mail

      

                Eudora is a wonderful email client. Over the years, the makers of Eudora have found efficient and elegant solutions to just about all email problems as they have surfaced. Eudora also has solutions for problems you probably do not have (like "MoodWatch", the amusing indicator of aggressive vocabulary), but for the most part Eudora is a flexible, fast and easy to use email program.

 
Saved Searches

Speed up your Ultra-fast searches even more by saving search criteria to use again later.

To save criteria for a message search

3.Enter your search criteria.

4.To save the search criteria, from the File menu, choose Save.

5.Give the saved file a name that makes sense to you, and click the Save button.

To run a saved search


2.Click to select the saved search.

Minimize to Windows System Tray

Two new options were added to Eudora 7.1 for managing your email through an icon in the Windows system tray. The system tray icon allows easy access to common Eudora commands, such as Check Mail, and New Message.
To display the Display options window

1.From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2.Scroll and click the Display icon.

Minimize Eudora to the system tray—If you select this option, Eudora will display as an icon in the system tray, instead of the task bar, when the Eudora application is minimized. Double-clicking on the system tray icon restores from the minimized state.

Always show icon in system tray—If you select this option, an icon for Eudora is added to the system tray as long as the Eudora application is running.

Clicking on the system tray icon brings up a contextual menu of common commands.

From this contextual menu, you can Exit Eudora, Open (restore) Eudora, start composing a new mail message, check for new mail, set Eudora to work offline, or adjust the settings for using Eudora in the System tray.

Insert Downloadable picture

Eudora allows you to insert a URL to a picture that will display in your messages, instead of sending the graphic as an attachment.

To insert pictures and horizontal lines into the body of a message, use the Insert submenu under the Edit menu, or use the Insert Object button on the message toolbar.

You can insert an object in the middle of a line of text or between lines of text in the message body.

To insert a downloadable picture in message text

1.Move the cursor to where you want the picture.
2.From the Edit menu, choose Insert.
3.From the Insert submenu, choose Downloadable Picture.
4.In the URL of picture field, enter the URL pointing to the graphic file you would like to insert.
5.In the Alternate text field, you have the option of entering text that will be displayed if the recipient is viewing the message in a client that cannot view the picture.
6.In the URL when clicked on field, you have the option of entering a URL to a web page to link to if the recipient clicks on the picture.
7.Click OK.

The picture is inserted into the message body at the cursor position. You can continue typing text. Your recipient will see the picture right in the message body.1.To run a saved search, click the triangle to the right of the Search button
The list of saved searches appears2.From the Find submenu, choose Find Messages.1.From the Edit menu, choose FindThe Find submenu appears.

Eudora Mail

           Eudora OSE is the Open Source Edition of one of the internet’s most pioneering and enduring applications. It is a re-imagining and re-implementation of classic Eudora features on top of the Mozilla Thunderbird codebase. It is more than just an extension, as certain functionality required changes to the core of the application.

 

New Features of Eudora Email Client:

Recent Mailboxes

Eudora 7.1 keeps a history of recently used mailboxes for your convenience. This menu item lets you open a mailbox or bring an open mailbox to the front.

Recent - Opens the selected recently used mailbox. By default, this list shows the last 10 recently used mailboxes.You can customize the length of this list in the Mailboxes options.

Expanded Media for Alert Sound

The option to play a sound for alerts has been expanded to include a wide variety of sound formats, including MP3, MIDI, WMA, and even the audio inside of video formats such as MPEG, MWV, and AVI.

Play a sound for New Mail alerts

To display the Getting Attention options window

1.From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2.Scroll and click the Getting Attention icon.

Play a sound—If you select this option, a sound is played when Eudora needs attention. To select a sound file, click the long, horizontal button below the “Play a sound” option (the button is blank by default). Browse until you find your sound file. When the “Select sound file” dialog box appears, select a sound and click Open. To switch back to the default mail arrival sound, click Use Default.

Play a sound Filter action

To open the Filters window to create or modify a filter
1.From the Tools menu, choose Filters, or click on the Filters window’s tab if it is part of a visible tabbed window group. The Filters window appears, and any filters you have created are listed on the left.

2.To add a new filter, click New; to modify a filter, click an existing filter to select it.

3.Select the options for how you want the filter to be used: as an automatic filter to be invoked on any Incoming and/or Outgoing mail and as a Manual filter that can be invoked when you choose Filter Messages from the Special menu. Any combination of these options works.

4.Define the criteria for the filter by using the header item drop-down menus and the text fields to specify which header items should include a particular string of text. You can define two related terms for the criteria so that your filter is as specific as possible.

5.Define the action or actions to be taken on messages that fit the criteria and save the filters.

Filter Actions
For a filter you’re creating or modifying in the Filters window, all messages that match the filter criteria are acted on as specified with the Actions drop down menus. Each filter can do up to five things to a message that matches the criteria.

To take advantage of the enhanced selection of sound file playback, use the Play Sound action:

Play Sound (Sponsored and Paid modes only)—Plays the selected sound when messages are filtered. Now accepts a wide variety of sound formats.1.From the Tools menu, choose Filters, or click on the Filters window’s tab if it is part of a visible tabbed window group. The Filters window appears, and any filters you have created are listed on the left.The Filters window lets you create more complex, powerful filters that use multiple match conditions and perform multiple filter actions.  

How to clear deleted items in Outlook 2010

         A lot of people like to configure Outlook to automatically empty the Deleted Items folder every time they close the program.Microsoft Outlook 2010 provides option to automatically empty deleted items folder on exit. But if you do not want to enable this feature but still want the empty deleted items manually then you can use the Cleanup tools.This comes handy, especially when you have size limits on how large your inbox can be.

Steps to be followed:

 Click the File tab to open the “Backstage” view.

 Click Options in Backstage view to open the “Outlook Options” window.

 Click Advanced in the left-hand column to open the “Advanced” tabbed page.

 In the Outlook Start and Exit section, set the “Empty Deleted Items folder when exiting Outlook” check box.

 You probably don’t want Outlook to ask you whether you want to empty the Deleted Items folder every time you close the program, so scroll down to the section named “Other.”

Clear the “Prompt for confirmation before permanently deleting items” checkbox.

 Click the OK button at the bottom of the window to exit Backstage view and return to the main Outlook window.

These steps can be followed in Outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP and Windows 7

How to save sent mail's to different folder in Outlook 2010

        As you send e-mails and other items in Microsoft Outlook 2010, copies are placed in the "Sent Items" folder. If you send a lot of e-mails and other items, this folder can become very large and unwieldy.

There may be times where you need to quickly find the copy of a particular mail you are sending, or perhaps generally you want to better organize your e-mail and place copies of outgoing items in relevant folders. If so, you can force Outlook 2010 to place the copy of a particular sent item in any folder of your choosing - you can even create a new folder to place the sent item.

1. While composing a message / e-mail, click the "Options" tab in the Ribbon.

2. In the "More Options" section, click the "Save Sent Item To" button / pull-down.

3. A pop-up menu appears. Options include choosing a different folder, using the default folder (defaults to "Sent Items"), and not saving the sent item.

If you choose "Other Folder", a "Select Folder" dialog box appears and you can choose where to save the item once sent. If desired, click the "New" button to create a new folder to store the sent item. Then click "OK" on the dialog box(es) when you have made your selection.

These steps can be followed in Outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP and Windows 7

Attachment in Windows Live mail

            

         Email does not have to be only text. You can attach anything and send it along with your Windows Live mail message: Word files, Excel spread sheet documents, photos, zip files, you can send every single file on your computer to anybody with an email address. And doing that is simple in Live mail
  

Follow below steps: 

   1. click Mail, and then, in the upper-left corner, click New.
   2. Click Attach, and then click File.

   3. Locate and select the file that you want to attach, and then click Open. Repeat this step for each file that you want to add.

These steps can be followed in windows live mail installed in  Windows XP and Windows 7

Conversation view in Windows Live mail

They are all part of one conversation of and under the same "subject". What they do not share, alas, in Windows Live Mail is a common location and order — so you can read them in easy, successive order; not yet!

It's easy, fortunately, to have Windows Live Mail group mail by subject.
View Mail Grouped by Conversation Thread in Windows Live Mail

To have Windows Live Mail arrange messages by conversation, grouping messages with matching subjects so you can read them in order:

    * Select View | View by conversation from Windows Live Mail's menu viewing a folder.
          o If you cannot see the menu bar, hold down the Alt key. 

To expand a conversation, click the right-pointing triangle in front of the oldest message in the thread.

Note that Windows Live Mail will not include messages from other folders in the conversation view. To see received and sent messages in a thread, for example, move both to a single folder.

How to disable Conversation view in Outlook 2010

         

        Conversation view in Outlook 2010 makes it easy for you to follow a discussion thread. By switching to Conversation View, Outlook 2010 combines all the messages within the thread into one package.

Conversation View is enabled by default in Outlook 2010. If you’re one of those people who don’t find Conversation View to be of any value, you can easy turn it off.

To turn off Conversation View for the current folder:

   1. Open the appropriate Outlook folder.
   2. Right click any of the field names.
   3. Click Arrange By and then select conversations now select Show Messages in Conversations so that the Show Message in Conversations is no longer checked.

To apply this change to all Outlook folders:

   1. Select the View tab on the Ribbon.
   2. Click Change View.

   3. Click Apply Current View to other mail Folders.
   4. Select your entire mailbox and click OK.

These steps can be followed in Outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP and Windows 7. 

How to add Signature in Outlook 2010

             In Office 2010 the location of some of the previously inherited options are different. If you are familiar with Outlook 2007 and have recently migrated to the Office 2010 then you might be wondering about from where you can add signatures to your emails. Here are the steps to add signatures in Outlook 2010.





First click the "File", and the go to options. The Outlook Options dialogue box will be displayed.

Now click the Mail option located in the left side menu, and locate the create and modify signatures for message option in the right side main window.

Now click the Signatures button located in front of the create and modify signatures for message option. The Signatures and Stationary dialogue box will be displayed, now in order to add new signatures, click the New button.

Here add your signature’s text under the Edit signature text area and click the OK button. 

Now your personal signature will appear at the end of every email you send.

These steps can be followed in Outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

Blue arrow on Folders in Outlook 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

            What does the blue arrow icon pointing left and right on a folder mean? Is there something you need to worry about it? What is this icon all about?

This blue double-ended or 2-way arrow icon means that the folder is part of a shared source you are connected to and thus not part of your own mailbox. A shared source could be a mailbox belonging to someone else, a Public Folder, an Internet Calendar or a SharePoint library.

This overlay icon has been introduced in Outlook 2007 and is also used in Outlook 2010. It’s only a visual aid and doesn’t for instance indicate whether or not the folder is cached. Whether or not a shared folder can be cached depends on the type of shared folder and your version of Outlook.
 

 
Note that the blue arrow icon isn’t shown on default mail folders which already hold an overlay icon of their own such as the Inbox, Sent Items and Junk E-mail folder.This display shown is from Outlook 2010 installed in Windows 7 and it is same if you have outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP.

How to import contacts to Outlook 2010

        When you begin using Outlook 2010 the first thing that oyu noticed was the dramatic change of the File menu compared to 2007 and previous versions of Office. Microsoft has done a great job of condensing the menu and making it easier to navigate, however for those of us who are used to the location of items on the menus it can be a little time consuming to locate what you need.

This was the case with the Import/Export Wizard that is normally found in the File menu (see screenshot below). The item is now tucked away in the Save options in the File menu. The how-to below will walk you through the steps necessary to import contacts from a .CSV file to Outlook 2010′s contact list.

Importing the CSV File

1. Click on File to open the menu.

2. Click on Open which will expand the Open submenu.

3. Click on Import to open the Import and Export Wizard

4. Select the action you wish to perform. In this case we are importing a file from another program. Click on Import from another program or file.

5. Click Next to proceed.

6.Choose the file type to import from, in this case we are importing from a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file.

7. Click Next to proceed.

8. Click on Browse to locate the file you wish to import from.

9. Locate and select the file you wish to import from.

10. Click OK to select the file and proceed.

11. You are presented with 3 options when importing contacts;

    * Replace duplicates with items imported
    * Allow duplicates to be created
    * Do not import duplicate items

Choose the option that best fits your needs.

12. Click Next to proceed.

13. Click on Contacts to specify it as the destination of the items being imported.

Note: If you have multiple Outlook files this step in the wizard will allow you to specify a different folder other than the default.

14. Click Next to proceed.

15. Verify that everything is correct then click Finish to start the import process.

Once the import process is finished you should see the items that were imported in your Outlook contact list.

How to reset Microsoft Outlook To Default Settings

          once in a while Outlook’s data files used to store all your emails, contacts and calendar entries gets corrupted. If you have an Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail which backs up all your email then you can very easily restore Outlook to default settings. Here is how you can reset Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 to factory default settings.

In Windows XP go to "Start" then select the "Control Panel" and then switch to "Classic View" option in left hand column. Then select "Mail" 

In Windows7 go to "Start" then select the "Control Panel" and look for "Mail". If you cannot find it type “mail” in the search box on the top right. Then click "Mail".

This will bring up the Mail Setup dialog box with Show Profiles section that we are interested in.

In most cases you will just have one mail profile. If you delete this profile then all your Outlook settings will be reset to default. To delete click Remove and then press OK.

How to insert BCC field in Outlook 2010

 

            If you want to send an email to a contact or several contacts, you might want to keep some of the recipient email addresses private using the Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) Field. Here’s how to do it in Outlook 2010.

It’s not enabled by default, but adding it as a field for all future emails is a simple process.

Launch Outlook and under the Home tab click on the New E-mail button.

The Bcc field will appear and you can then put the contacts in there who you want to receive the mail secretly or don’t want to show a certain email address.

Now anytime you compose a message, the Bcc field is included.

These steps can be followed in Outlook 2010 installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.