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Organising Your Email for Outlook Express Users

Over the next few issues I am going to look at how you organise your email. Starting with the basic account setup and concluding with email archiving. In between we will look at folders, address books, email searching and many other aspects.

The first job is organising your email accounts. Outlook Express can be used to receive email from multiple mailboxes. That is, if for example, you have an ISP email account and a Google email account Outlook Express can be configured to retrieve email from both mailboxes and place it in your inbox. See Accessing Multiple Email Accounts/Mailboxes with Outlook Express for more details.

There are however occasions when you wish to keep your email separate. There are two ways of accomplishing this:

• Identities
• Message Rules

Outlook express uses identities that can also be used when you have email that you want to keep separate and private. For example, if you have a small business you can create a business identity which you use for sending and receiving business email and a personal identity that you use for personal email. See Outlook Express identities.

If you decide to use a single identity then you can separate the messages from the different mailboxes using message rules.

Here is a sample message rule in Outlook Express that highlights email from my yahoo account and places it in the Yahoo folder.

Talking Emails

Do you want to add sound to your emails. Perhaps sing someone happy birthday? Or do you want to listen to your emails instead of having to read them yourself? Well its possible to so both.. Find out how in talking emails.

Spam and Virus News

Filters may now be successfully detecting today's Spam but Smarter Spam Could Mimic Friends' Mail.

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 (End August 2006) :

• BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC-Trojan horses BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and BackDoor.Generic3.GBC are almost similar. Both of them exploiting MS Windows Server Service vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040 for it`s spreading.
• 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

August 29, 2006- Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Mytob, I-Worm/Brontok, new variants of trojans Downloader.Zlob, Backdoor.Agent.




More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

Email Tools and Useful links

• This free spam check report will tell you if you email message will get through the spam filters. Just paste you intended message into the box and submit.
•  Securing your computer and Internet and computer Privacy.-Basic guide to protecting your privacy.
• Microsoft Outlook Express support
• Incredimail Support

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