SaneBox : Security Add-on

         SaneBox does a great and helpful job separating the emails you need to see now from those you can consume at leisure, reserving your inbox for the former.              SaneBox works with any IMAP account (including Gmail, MobileMe, Yahoo! Mail, AOL and AIM Mail, and Exchange) and is pretty accurate, but its focus on senders instead of...

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Disable Quarantined Messages pop up window

                  When you open the CA Anti-Spam folder in Outlook or Outlook Express and there are new quarantined messages, CA Anti-Spam automatically pops up its New Quarantined Messages window.Some find this useful, some find it annoying. I belong to the latter group of people, but fortunately it's easy to avoid the annoyance by preventing CA Anti-Spam from showing...

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Disabling quarantine in CA Anti-Spam

                          CA Anti-Spam does what few anti-spam tools can claim for themselves: it blocks 100%, roughly, of junk mail out of the box.CA Anti-Spam does that by quarantining all mail not from authorized senders. To make sure you continue to receive your favorite newsletters, authorize them after signing up.  Steps...

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CA Anti-Spam : Security Add-on

               CA Anti-Spam allows only mail from approved senders to your Inbox, checks sender credentials to warn about phishing attempts and lets you search your emails quickly, too. CA Anti-Spam suffers from the problems of challenge/response filters mildly, and you may still have to go through the spam you get every now and then.Advantages:    CA Anti-Spam integrates...

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Avoid important mail filtering : Spamihilator

       Even Spamihilator, one of the best anti-spam tools combining content filters and Bayesian statistics, can make a mistake now and then.          To make sure important messages or your favorite newsletters aren't filtered as spam even then, you can add their senders as friends. Mail from senders in your Friends list is never treated as spam by Spamihilator.         ...

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Spamihilator : Disable scoring content filters

        Bayesian spam filters automatically adapt to the types of spam and good mail you get. They learn whenever you tell them that a message is spam or a wanted piece of email.       This also means that you will achieve the best results when using Bayesian filtering if there are no other filtering mechanisms working against it. For example, the Bayesian filter may have learned that...

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Spamihilator : Security Add-on

                 Spamihilator is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Bayesian filters, has a good detection rate. You cannot remotely administer Spamihilator.Advantages:    Spamihilator achieves a great spam detection rate by combining multiple strategies intelligently    Working as a POP or IMAP...

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Spam Bully: Filter All Mail in a Folder

          If you don't have Spam Bully filter a folder in Outlook Express for spam automatically, what it does when you click Scan Folder in the toolbar is scanning all unread messages only.I have a few archive folders with old, but valuable messages in them — and maybe one or the other junk email, too. Naturally, they're all read. Fortunately, I don't have to mark them unread for Spam Bully to filter...

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Spam Bully : Security Add-on

              Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely. Be prepared for some false positives initially, though.Advantages:    Spam Bully has a great spam detection rate using multiple powerful filtering techniques    You can request confirmations from new...

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Deleting Old Mail's in IncrediMail

             If you keep mail on the server after downloading it in IncrediMail, you can re-retrieve it later in another email client or even in IncrediMail, if you have accidentally deleted an important message. That's great, but it means that your POP server will have to keep all those messages, and eventually your mailbox will be full. Your account will be clogged by so many old...

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How to find message header

       Animation and stationery and sounds are nice, but they're not so nice any more when they are spam, or when they are not working.In such situations a closer look at the message header lines can be helpful. Here's how to do it in IncrediMail.View All Message Headers in IncrediMailSteps to display an email's every header in IncrediMail:    Double-click the message in IncrediMail to open it in its own...

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How print part of mail in IncrediMail

               To print an email including header information in IncrediMail, you need Outlook Express. To print part of an email in Outlook Express, you need to get involved with quite a bit of editing.Now, instead of tackling the task of printing part of an email including header information in IncrediMail, let's look at printing a portion of an email message in IncrediMail,...

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Insert the Last Used Smiley Fast

         IncrediMail comes with a large selection of graphical and animated smileys, easily inserted with a few mouse clicks.But if you use the winking smiley 10 times out of 10 (like I do) or if you want to repeat an emoticon for super emphasis, there is an even faster way to add it to your message.Insert the Last Used Smiley Fast in IncrediMailSteps to insert the last used smiley fast in IncrediMail:   ...

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Undisclosed Recipients in IncrediMail

      Of all the reasons not to disclose something, not many are good reasons.But protecting the privacy of the people that make up the diverse group to which you forward a joke is usually a good reason. Don't reveal the names and email addresses of all recipients, especially if they do not know each other well.In IncrediMail, hiding recipients is easy using the Bcc: field, and we can make it even better and prettier by using...

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Smart Notifiers in IncrediMail

       The butler's serving mail, of course, iconically in IncrediMail.Is all mail fit for the butler, though, and all fit mail equal? How about having specific characters, animals and animations announce emails from certain people, and turning off notifications for unimportant messages altogether?With smart notifiers, IncrediMail Plus lets you set up rules for notifiers. You can adapt them for certain senders or group...

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Save massage as draft

          You love to write really long emails. Often, there is not enough time for all that message writing. Fortunately, IncrediMail lets me save the email I'm composing as a draft and continue editing it later. Save a Message as a Draft in IncrediMailSteps to save a message as a draft in IncrediMail:    Select "File" | "Save" from the message's menu.       ...

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Organizing Your IncrediMail

         As you install IncrediMail letters, animations, sounds and other styles, they automatically appear in a folder in your IncrediMail style box.If you install many letters, things can get cluttered quickly. Fortunately, you can easily organize your IncrediMail styles by moving them to different folders.Organize Your IncrediMail Letters, Animations, and StylesTo organize your IncrediMail letters, animations,...

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Previewing mail more securely

      You read most of your mail's in the IncrediMail preview pane. It's just too convenient.Fortunately, looking at self security-conscious , which pointed to the long list of viruses and worms spreading by exploiting preview panes, could be reassured, too, by making the preview pane a bit more secure.In IncrediMail, shy of hiding the preview pane altogether, you can disable all scripts from being run by just reading a mail...

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Leave a copy on server

         Usually, you'll not want to keep mail you have already downloaded in IncrediMail on the server. But it can be handy. If you want to fetch the same messages in another email program, for example. Or if you've accidentally deleted important mail. For these cases, IncrediMail can keep a copy of all mail it downloads at the server.Leave a Copy of Downloaded Mail at the Server in IncrediMailTo have IncrediMail...

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Increase the Text Size

             Computer screens are great for playing games and watching movies, but in spite of recent advances they are still not ideal for reading text. Yet, this is what we do most of the time. We read emails, for example.If you read your emails in IncrediMail, you can make some messages easier on the eyes by increasing the font size used to display them. This can be helpful with notoriously...

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Look up a Word Definition

       How handy a dictionary or encyclopaedia would be. but wait, isn't the web just a browser  and some typing or copying and pasting — away?But wait again! In IncrediMail, a handy window with translations, definitions and articles from encyclopaedias is just a mouse click away. Look up a Word Definition or Translation in IncrediMailSteps to get an instant translation for a word or its definition from online...

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Log Receiving and Sending Activity

        You do notice, when something does not work — you cannot send mail, or new emails do not arrive. IncrediMail may even pop up an error message with some hints. Often, these hints may be enough to fix the problem, but sometimes they are not.   IncrediMail can also keep a detailed (and dry, of course) log of what it does and tries to get your messages, or get them delivered. You can then use these...

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