Easy Email Ezine


Issue 10 -April 2006


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News, Articles, Tools and Tips and Advice


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This Months Contents


Greetings, Announcements and News

 


Welcome to the April issue of The easy Email Ezine.

Incredimail have recently released an update the current release is build 2253(19 March 2006) -This is a minor release . The  last major release was - Build 2154 Released November 14, 2005 . To download visit Incredimail download.

 

Reminders!

 Important Note: Since build 2068 August 2005 the junk email feature has become subscription based. If you are currently running a version earlier than this, and are using the junk email features, and aren't prepared to subscribe then don't upgrade!!

 If you are a yahoo email user or want a Yahoo account free or otherwise yahoo are now allowing the use of first.lastname@yahoo.com or .co.uk for Uk registered users.

Microsoft have issued an update Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 .

 

 There's an interesting article I came across about how to avoid getting on Email blacklists-here. If you are getting too much spam then you may want to recap on how to avoid spam

In Issue 8 we looked at Email Mailing Lists for those of you are interested in this topic the March edition of affiliate classroom newsletter is dedicated to email marketing so why not take a look.

Microsoft have just confirmed that windows vista home edition will not now be available until January 2007 so Outlook Express has another 9 months before it becomes Windows mail.

You may already be aware that Microsoft are working on a collection of web based services called windows live. For those of you who like new things you may want to take a look at windows live mail.
 


Featured Articles -


Managing Email Addresses with Address Books

Overture last month recorded over 34,000 search queries for the term "find email address" . That's not an exception, but the norm. Why are so many people searching for emails addresses? Well I don't suppose to know the answer but I suspect that many have lost email addresses due to data loss through system crashes, moving computers etc.

So in this months Ezine we will focus on managing email addresses so hopefully you wont be one of those people searching the web next month for someone's email address that was once stored safely on your own computer.

For windows users all windows versions come with the windows address book, which most people access via Outlook Express. However the windows address book is actually a stand alone application. -See Outlook Express address book for details on how to use, manage the address book

Incredimail uses its own address book which is not related to the windows address book. However it is very easy to transfer addresses between the two email clients by exporting and importing them. See Incredimail Address Book.

Even though Incredimail doesn't use the windows address book it is possible to send an email to someone in the windows address book using IncrediMail- see this months IncrediMail tips.


Email Tools -

Msn Shared Calendars

Last week I mentioned we talked about Yahoo calendars so this week its the turn of MSN hotmail. If you open your hotmail mailbox and click calendars you will find a link called sharing. Click the link to share and manage your shared calendars.

Just like with Yahoo you can integrate your MSN calendar into your website by following the guide putting a  Yahoo/Hotmail calendar on your own website.



Outlook Express and IncrediMail Quick Tips


Outlook Express Quick Tips

To quickly display the Windows address book type CRTL+shift+B

You will find more outlook Outlook Express tips here.

IncrediMail Quick Tips

Send email using Incredimail to someone in the windows Address book.

Incredimail doesn't use the Windows address book but it you make Incredimail the default email client you can send email using IncrediMail to contacts in the windows address book.

  1. Make Incredimail the default email client. It usually prompts on start if it isn't but you can do it within IncrediMail by select tools>options and on the General tab click the make default button.
  2. Open the Windows address Book start>programs>accessories>address book
  3. Right click the contact that you want to send an email to and select action>send email .

    Incredimail contacts/addresses 4
  4. Incredimail will open with a compose message window with the to field containing the address of the contact.

You will find more IncrediMail quick tips here.



Spam and Virus News


Top Virus Threats-

Grisoft the makers of AVG anti-virus software (free version available for non business use) report the following as the top virus threats (March 2006) :

  • Worm/Generic.FX This worm spreads by internet and contains one dangerous payload action - every 3rd day of month worm overwrites files with doc, xls, mdb, mde, ppt, pps, zip, rar, pdf, psd and dmp extensions.
  • Exploit.WMF -These files exploits WMF vulnerability in Windows Operating Systems that allows malware code execution while WMF format file is opening.
  • I-Worm/Bagle.JH -It spreads thanks to massive SPAMing, messages contains attachements with zip extension and exe file inside with 9968 B size
  • I-Worm/Sober.CF-This virus comes in as an attachment to emails written in English or German language
  • I-Worm/Sober.S, .T- This virus comes in as an attachment to emails written in English or German language.
  • I-Worm/Mytob.LY, LZ (aka Zotob.A - B)
    This worm spreads exploiting security hole described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039.
  • Win32/Gaelicum

Grisoft latest update April 4 2006 -Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Bagle, Worm/Feebs, new variant of trojan Downloader.Zlob.


More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site


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