Easy Email Ezine


Issue 7 -January 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 January issue of The easy Email Ezine. This Ezine is dedicated to supplying useful information, news and tips on Outlook Express, Incredimail and email in general .

First I would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year.

Our January theme is automatic email handling. One of the most common questions I've received over the holidays is how do I automatically send an email telling my friends or anyone who contacts me that I will be away over the holidays. So in this months issue we are going to look at handing email automatically.

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!!

Incredimail current release is build 2185 (21 December 2005) -This is a minor release . The  last major release was - Build 2154 Released November 14, 2005 . To download visit Incredimail download.

Goodbye Outlook Express and Hello Windows Mail- The next outlook express update will most likely be in the new operating system Windows Vista due out in late 2006.

However it will no longer be known as Outlook Express but will become Windows Mail. This according to Microsoft is to remove the present confusion that exists between the Outlook and Outlook Express products.

If you are interested there is a channel nine demo video available the quality wasn't that brilliant in the bit that I saw. It doesn't look that much different from the current version, but it is the first beta of the product and could change significantly over the coming months (though I doubt it).

If you have an Hotmail .co.uk domain name you may experience problems configuring IncrediMail to use it. Please see the updated Incredimail and Hotmail setup guide for details.

If you are a yahoo email 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.

 


Featured Article - Out of Office Replies

Over the holidays I have had many requests for details on how to configure this in Outlook Express/IncrediMail to send an automated message saying that they are away on holiday.

This type of message commonly known as an out of office reply. So who uses them and how do you configure them.. see out of office replies 


Email Forwarding

 Email forwarding is a technique for transferring an email from one address to another.  For example an email addressed originally to steve@flasedomain.com can be sent to steve@gooddomain.com by this technique.

So why use it and how to configure it ? Read about it in.. Email forwarding


Email Tools- Yahoo address Quick Builder

This allows you to automatically build your address book from your emails. If you open your Yahoo email account and go to address book you will see a Quickbuilder  button. Click the Quickbuilder button and you will be asked to select the folders to scan and other options.

Once done select continue and the address are presented on screen. Check the ones you want and then click continue and then return to address book link.



Outlook Express and IncrediMail Quick Tips


Outlook Express Quick Tips

Adding a Contact Quickly to the Address Book

If you receive an email from some and want to quickly add them as a contact to your address book.

  1. In the message view main window (their is no need to open the message) right click the message and select add sender to address book.

or

If you have opened the message

Place the cursor over the name in the from field (top of message above  date) and right click and select add to address book. A contact window will open allowing you to modify the contact properties, click ok when done.

You will find more outlook Outlook Express tips here.

IncrediMail Quick Tips

Adding a Contact Quickly to the Address Book

If you receive an email from some and want to quickly add them as a contact to your address book.

  1. In the message view main window (their is no need to open the message) right click the message and select add sender to address book. A contact window will open allowing you to modify the contact properties, click ok when done.

or

If you have opened the message

Place the cursor over the name in the from field (top of message above  date) and right click and select add to contacts. A contact window will open allowing you to modify the contact properties, click ok when done.

 

You will find more IncrediMail quick tips here.



Spam and Virus News


Microsoft have recently released an add-in for the MSN toolbar the Microsoft® Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN® Search Toolbar  works with MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later

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 (January 2006) :

  • 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 January 3, 2006: Added detection of new variant of Worm/Prex, new variant of trojan Downloader.Zlob.
 


More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site


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