Outlook Express add-ons - OE made better
Outlook Express has many useful features but can be made even
better with suitable add-ons. Here you will find some useful add-ons for Outlook
Express.
Anti Spam or Junk Mail filtering Software
Various reports
put the amount of Spam that the average person receives per day anywhere between
40-80% of all mail. Whatever the figure Spam is definitely becoming more and
more of a problem.Outlook Express has some built in
anti spam features but can be made
much better using anti spam software. Here are few web sites offering anti Spam
software that works with Outlook Express:
Spell checking add-ons for Outlook Express
AutoSpell
for Outlook Express
Enhance Outlook Express with full-featured, automatic spell checking!
Award-winning AutoSpell for Outlook Express quickly and easily plugs into your
application, and automatically checks spelling whenever you click Send.
AutoSpell for Outlook Express supports over 16 languages, Internet, legal and
medical terms and more. Ensure your e-mail messages look their best!
AutoSpell
Typing Helper
Speed up your typing and avoid spelling errors with AutoSpell Typing Helper.
Typing Helper auto-completes words as you type them, and displays a pop-up list
of suggested words.
With one click or even a single keystroke, you choose the
word you want, and continue typing your text. Supports over 16 languages, legal,
and medical terms. Works with Wordpad, Notepad, GoldMine, ACT!, ICQ, instant
messengers and many more!
Spellex-Anywhere
Can be used not just for spell checking Outlook express but for
Yahoo email, Internet forms, forums etc.
SpellCheckAnywhere
Works in almost all Windows programs including outlook express,
Internet explorer. It comes with a 3 month, risk-free, money-back
guarantee. You can also download a 15 day trial from the web site so you can
try it before you buy it.
Tinyspell
Small free spell checker installs as an icon in system tray and
beeps and changes colour when you make a spelling mistake.
Smileys and Emoticons for Outlook Express
No need to be left out! why not add some personality to your email
with emoticons.
Handy Animated Emoticons from Scorpio Software
Large collection of animated simleys and emoticons organized in
categories. Works in Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo, Hotmail etc free 30 day
trial available.
Emoticons Email 3.1 from maxplugs
Includes over 900 in categories works in Outlook, Outlook
Express, Yahoo, Hotmail etc free 30 day trial available.
New Mail Notifications
One of the major shortfalls with outlook express is the lack of
new email notifications.
Express Mail@Mate is an award winning email
notification program that integrates with outlook and outlook express.
If you have Webmail accounts like Gmail,Yahoo or Msn then try Dynadvance.
Dynadvance Notifier is a program that notifies you when you have new Email. It
also works on a variety of accounts including Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!
Mail, POP3 and IMAP Mail (including Outlook Express).
It installs as an icon in the system tray and opens a pop-up window whenever
you receive new Email. It also shows you a preview of the new message and
either logs you in to your Webmail account ( for some types of accounts ),
or automatically launches your default email client.
A 20 day trial version is available --Dynadvance
Sources of Freeware Notifiers
There are many other mainly pop3 email notification programs available they
may or may not integrate with outlook express. Try http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/
Outlook Express Add-on Tools for creating advanced stationary
There are several tools available if you want to create more advanced
stationary or just want an easier way of creating your own stationary:
Message tracking add-ons for Outlook Express
havetheyreadityet
Do you want to know if your email has been read? Has someone read your mail?
If you want or need to know if a message you have sent has indeed been read?
Then this simple free program is just for you. In order to track if the message
has been read you insert a small postage-stamp image into the message before you
send it. Provided you don't want to track more than 5 messages per day the
stamps are free.
The only confusing thing I found when first using the program is that I
expected to receive email notification that the message had been read but
instead it comes with a browser type report which you access from an icon it
creates on the system tray. If you don't want to stamp a message just delete to
stamp picture from the message. If you want to suspend message stamping just go
the havetheyreadityet console edit tab and select suspend
stamping.
Add-ons For accessing Multiple Mailboxes
WebMail Assistant
The program is designed to extend the capabilities of Hotmail and Yahoo Mail,
and to make them faster and easier to use. More importantly it lets you save
messages and address book information on your own hard drive.
You can download a trial version and see a more detailed description here.
I you want more details and to download direct from the software producers site
then go here (note: they don't
offer a trial version here).
Accessing Free Yahoo Accounts
YPOPS or formally Yahoopops is open source software (from Sourceforge) that
allows you connect to your Yahoo email account using POP3 (outlook express) .
See YPops/Yahoopops article for
more details.
Looking for other software?
If you are looking for tools like backup, attachment extraction etc
then you will find those under
Outlook Express Tools.
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