Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail are replacements for Outlook Express. Since the programs are similar, the instructions for creating an email signature with an image are similar. However, there are differences. One example is Live Mail may display the image border with a red X and not the contents.
Continue Reading June 16th, 2008
A reader posed an Outlook question, which I thought, might benefit others. They wanted to know if there was a way to have Outlook flag emails that belonged to people who were already in their Outlook address book. This would allow her to focus on those items first. You can do this by creating an Outlook rule using categories with Outlook 2003 and 2007. (Includes online tutorial.)
Continue Reading July 17th, 2007
This week was one where multiple requests converged. I had two friends that needed to send emails to their customers. One had their information in an Excel spreadsheet and the other exported their internal databases to Excel. Both thought there were problems with many email addresses and wanted to know if there was an easy way to validate them before sending out the emails. They weren’t looking for me to show that john.doe@xyz.comThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it existed. Instead, they just wanted to make sure the data record was in the correct email address format.
Continue Reading June 11th, 2007
I encountered an interesting issue today with Microsoft Outlook 2007, which I found disturbing. I tried to contact the company via their support options, but ran into difficulties. I’ll save that rant for another day, as I wanted to get this issue documented. The problem is Outlook 2007 failed to display the last list item in a HTML email. Yet, if I viewed the source, I could see the entire message. In this instance, I noticed the omission, but it was only by luck I spotted the problem.
Continue Reading June 5th, 2007
The Dropload service we profiled several years ago that allowed users to send large files, has gone offline. We thought we would find a replacement service since more people are finding it difficult to send large files via email. This gave us an opportunity to review some other services. The first one we looked at is called YouSendIt.com. It offers four plans including a free one that allows you to send a 100 MB file.
Continue Reading May 29th, 2007
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