Outlook Express Tips
Use Outlook Express quickly and securely.
These free power tips that will tell you how to:
- Avoid spam email
- Avoid viruses
- Use email more effectively
- Browse newsgroups faster and easier
- Find free MP3, videos, pictures, software and e-books on newsgroups using Outlook Express
Selected Articles
How to simply ignore spam that asks delivery receipt or read receipt
Lately new kind of spam is present that abuses Outlook Express/Windows Mail built in sending of read receipt. If you do send a receipt back - guess what - you will get even more spam. Here is how to get rid of that.
How to make Windows Live Mail look and feel like Outlook Express
If you switched from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail you may have used a set of features you liked but just don't seem to be there anymore. While Windows Live Mail does bring improvements in some areas, some other "improvements" are arguable. Fortunately, some features are only hidden and some require a different approach - this article lists all the tricks and features I've discovered so far (the article will be updated from time to time).
ATM Pin number reverse
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. Untrue, unfortunately.
Setting up Gmail in Outlook Express
Gmail is not only about large Inbox. One of the benefits of using Gmail is also the ability to easily download emails to your email client such as Outlook Express. Here is how to do it.
What is yEnc?
If you encountered yEnc messages on the newsgroups you may have been disappointed because Outlook Express has no yEnc decoder. This article explains how to decode yEnc in Outlook Express and why is it so popular.