Misc. E-mail Tools

PostSmile lets you insert funny smiley faces into your e-mail messages, as well as online message board postings. All you need to do is click on the smiley and it will be inserted at the position of your cursor. PostSmile works with most popular email programs, including Outlook, Outlook Express and many others (that support HTML messages) as well as Hotmail and other web based email systems. The program is easy to use, has an attractive and compact interface with smileys organized in categories.

GeniusConnect makes it possible to synchronize Outlook data with any relational database that supports ODBC (MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server etc.). MS Outlook stores data (Calendar,Tasks,Mail,Journal,Notes) on the local computer in a .pst file, which makes it difficult to exchange this data with other systems or applications. With GeniusConnect, you can export your Outlook contact data to a database and also load data from the database into an Outlook contact folder. It is also possible to use GeniusConnect on multiple Outlook Folders and multiple databases and users can optionally protect private contact data by using a different Folder or by telling GeniusConnect to ignore items that are marked as private. GeniusConnect consists out of several COM objects, adds a new toolbar and becomes an integral part of Outlook after installation. Other features include Swiftpage integration, various types of synchronization with the database as well as auto-synchronization when Outlook starts and more.

With Mailbag Assistant, you can search through thousands of e-mails in all of your mailboxes, group them together meaningfully, and archive them for easy reference. The software is completely safe to use because it doesn`t replace your e-mail program, and doesn`t modify your mailboxes or e-mails in any way. Mailbag Assistant lets you open as many e-mails from as many mailboxes as your computer`s memory will allow, including active mailboxes created by your e-mail program as well as archived mailboxes anywhere on your drives. It currently handles Eudora, Netscape 6, Outlook Express 5x, Pegasus, The Bat!, FoxMail, Calypso and Forte Agent mailboxes. Mailbag Assistant is also able to read and write .eml files, and extract HTML messages with all embedded contents.

Express Assist (EA) is the a Backup and Restore utility for Outlook Express users. It offers many features, including the ability to search for and view messages in the backup without restoring them. It allows you to restore lost lost messages without losing the current mail folders or retrieve them as text or .EML files. Backup items include rules, mail and news options, blocked sender list, email account settings, user parameters as well as all or selected mail folders. In addition to Outlook Express items, EA can also backup your IE favorites, settings, cookies and more as well as some additional Windows files. Express Assist can be scheduled to run automatically and provides optional zip compression to reduce the size of your backup files. Supports Outlook Express 5, 5.5 and 6.

Easy Mail Merge for Outlook enables you to send personalized mass mailings directly from Microsoft Outlook. It can import recipients and mail merge fields from various sources, including Outlook Contacts, Outlook distribution lists and comma delimited files. The program integrates into the Outlook interface, and you can create your mailing in the same way that you send a regular mail. The newly added toolbar options allow you to insert mail merge fields and also create complex scenarios that can insert specific text based on IF conditions.

Quick Reply allows you to manage and quickly insert frequently used text snippets such as email replies and signatures into your email messages or documents. It offers macro command feature that allows you to simply type a macro in your message text, and it will be replaced by the associated text snippet. The macro command can contain additional variables, allowing you to dynamically customize the canned text with variables that you define. Alternately you can also use keyboard shortcuts or copy/paste the text into the message or document. Additional features include support for rich text formatting.

Outlook Express Attachment Extractor allows you to extract attachments from your Outlook Express (5/6) email boxes. You can set a filter to only extract pictures and not files or also choose to save all messages as .eml files to disk. The program generates a HTML report with clickable thumbnail links to the pictures or files that were extracted.

Photos for Grandma offers a simplified way for sending pictures to friends and relatives. You can simply drag and drop images onto a contacts list and click a button to have the program automatically resize them and send them to the selected recipient(s). The photos are embedded into your choice of HTML email template and send directly via your preferred email account. Photos for Grandma lets you choose from 3 predefined image sizes and set custom avatars or display images for your contacts. Other features include email preview and automatic EXIF rotation.

Digital Postman Pro enables you to easily scan and email documents. Just start the program, put your document into the scanner and press the Scan button. Digital Postman Pro scans the document and shows you a thumbnail view of the resulting image. Next, press the Send button and Digital Postman Pro will open a new e-mail message and automatically attach the scanned document as image file - ready to be sent. Digital Postman Pro supports color or grey scale scanning, as well as the use of Automatic Document Feeders (ADF), so sending a multi-page document is just as easy.

Mail Merge Toolkit allows you to extend the existing mail merging capabilities in Outlook, Word and MS Publisher. You can insert data fields into subject field, add attachments and send emails in GIF, HTML, RTF and text formats. By using messages in GIF (with optional image maps), you can send messages and be sure that your recipient will be able to read it with any email client. It also provides more control over the sending process and and option to terminate a mailing at any time.

Email Address Collector enables you to extract targeted email addresses from your Outlook and Outlook Express mailboxes Contacts and Windows Address Book. In addition, the program supports other document types, including MSN Messenger, web documents, DOC, PDF and other formats. You can set filters based on the email subject, content, time and more. The extracted list can then be saved in .csv format.

Attachment Extractor for Outlook Express enables you to extract email attachments and automatically save them to a user defined folder. You can process all emails or select emails by sender, receiver, subject or time period and also filter attachment files by extension. The extracted files can also be sorted by sender, email, subject or date and placed into separate folders.

Outlook Express To HTML Converter enables you to export and convert your Outlook Express emails to HTML format. The converted messages can be viewed by any browser, and used for backup or publishing purposes. You can choose to convert all messages, or just selected email, or select them by sender, receiver or time period. If there are any attachments, they are automatically extracted as well.

POPcon connects MS Exchange Server to one or more user-specified POP3 mailboxes. It works as an e-mail gateway that retrieves messages from POP3 servers and delivers them to your Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes according to the intended user found in the mails. In addition, POPcon Pro includes a self-updating RAV virus scanner that scans all incoming mails for virus/worm infections and quarantines infected messages. Furthermore, the program allows you to specify incoming mail rules and distribute the collected mail based on custom rules that can be based on email subject, sender, recipient or attachment name. Additional features include remote administration, flexible scheduling and more. The program works with Exchange 5.5 as well as Exchange 2000. The rules and anti-virus features are not available in the evaluation version.

A very convenient mail and news client, containing some unique capabilities. A powerful system for retrieving information from the archives of most popular mail programs, including: MS Mail, MS News, MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora, Forte Agent, Pegasus Mail, The Bat, Eserv, and also in all popular bases of the Fidonet informations network. The description language of the filters includes the standard operators: OR, AND, NOT, NEAR, their synonyms, and parentheses for defining the order of operators.

Brezosoft KMailer KMailer is a customer email relationship management software for successful opt-in email marketing campaigns, subscriber list management and online surveys. You can build or import your contact lists, distribute online surveys, create and send email campaigns and more. It includes a message editor that allows you to create HTML emails from a word processor interface, as well as several template based design, that can be used and customized for your needs. KMailer supports import from various file formats, as well as database queries, and includes a built-in SMTP server that can optionally be used instead of external mail servers. You can send targeted emails based on user demographics, track responses, mail merge user information in messages and more.

Email Sentinel Pro can convert your incoming email messages to harmless plain text messages. You also have the option to leave the HTML intact, but remove images, nested scripts and HTML form. The program can also keep a backup copy of the original HTML mail, so that you can retrieve it if needed. In addition, it can intercept specific email attachments, to prevent accidental opening of common viruses or worms. Additional features include whitelist with Contacts import and logging. Email Sentinel Pro works on the TCP/IP level and is compatible with any email program, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail and Imap accounts.

WebcamMail enables you to create streaming video or audio files and send them to your business partners, family, or friends. The user-friendly interface allows you to send your first video mail immediately once you have installed the program. The streaming video/audio files created by WebcamMail are Windows Media compatible. Therefore, most receivers can view your video immediately without installing additional software. The streaming video can be optimized based on your network bandwidth and you can create video files with different data rates in order to provide viewers with options for different connection speeds . Since you are streaming the video from your server, there is no executable file attached when sending video/audio with WebcamMail.

TalkyMail is a simple email program, that uses Microsoft Agent to read your emails aloud. It supports the basic email features, as well as rich text and HTML emails, and can notify you when new email arrives. In addition, TalkyMail can also read text from the clipboard or text files. The program used to be great in its days, however the email features have become very outdated and TalkyMail makes a rather poor email program today. Give it a try though if you require the read-aloud features.

Email Questionnaire enables you to send email surveys or feedback request forms to customers, employees, subscribers or other target groups. The software is entirely email based and does not require an intermediate web server to process the results. It works by sending out individual HTML forms to the recipients, which can then submit the completed form via email, and Email Questionnaire will collect and analyze the results from your POP account. It creates a statistical report with bar graphs and pie charts that allows you to view the results of the survey. The program includes more than 30 templates that you can customize or import your own. Other features include WYSIWYG form design and editing, mail merge, personal FAQ library and more.

Atomic Mail Sender is a program to send mass email to different mailing lists with unlimited number of recipients. It can use your ISPs mail server, or optionally the built-in SMTP engine. You can view the status of all emails sent, and generate a report that includes failed or successful deliveries. The program offers an integrated message composer that allows you to easily create HTML email with backgrounds and images, as well as plain text messages. Atomic Mail Sender includes basic mailing list management routines, allowing you to add new addresses, remove unused addresses, manage message templates and more. Other features include mail merge, duplicate removal, email extraction, spell checking and more.

Webmail Retriever for Hotmail enables you to send and receive email from your Hotmail Plus account using any email program such as Outlook, Outlook Express Netscape Messenger, Eudora, Thunderbird and others. The mail will arrive in your Inbox, just like mail from any other POP account, and can be sorted or filtered based on your email programs capabilities. Webmail Retriever runs as a local POP/SMTP proxy, and you need to configure your email program to use localhost as incoming/outgoing server. (Please note that Hotmail can only be accessed via POP3 if you have a paid Plus account. This software will not work with free Hotmail accounts)

Vemail is an easy-to-use software to send voice emails. It works with any MAPI compliant email program, including Outlook and Outlook Express, or it can be used to send the message via your SMTP server. Just enter the recipient`s email, press a button or keyboard hotkey (F6) while you are recording and click Send to attach the recording to a new email message.

Advanced Outlook Express Repair(AOER) is a tool to recover Outlook Express email messages from corrupt .dbx files and .mbx files. It can recover files from your local disk, as well as corrupt media, including floppies and CDs. Additional features include support for files up to 4GB, attachment recovery, command line options and Windows Explorer integration. Works with Outlook Express 4/5/6.

Emoticons Mail allows you to easily insert graphical smileys into your Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express email messages. You can select from different categories and insert the smiley with a single click wherever your mouse cursor is located in the email message. The program runs in the system tray from where it can be quickly accessed.

Smiling Writing allows you to insert smileys, emoticons, animated letters and more into your (HTML) email messages. It provides a compact interface that runs in the system tray and allows you to select an item and click a button (or hotkey) to insert it into your email message. The program comes with several smileys included and registered users can download additional sets or you can create your own by selecting images of your choice. The program works with most popular email clients: Outlook Express, Outlook, Incredimail and Netscape as long as HTML format is used to send (and read) the email.

Text Formatter Plus is a simple text editor, specialized for the use with newsletter/ezine text. It can word wrap the text to a specified line length, right and/or left indent text and set a left margin. In addition, the program allows you to save text snippets and easily insert them, using a simple keyword command. Text Formatter Plus can also remove hard returns from text, copy your document in HTML, and spell-check your text.

SmartPic allows you to insert small emoticons (smileys) into your email messages. You can select from a large, categorized collection of icons and simply insert a selected icon by clicking on it. SmartPic works with HTML enables email in Outlook, Netscape-Mail, IncrediMail and others. It also includes an option to design your own balloon smileys.

Easy Survey allows you to create email surveys that can be sent via Outlook or posted online. It integrates with MS Outlook to create a new survey, however requires Office Pro (including MS Access) to manually create a database for the survey. The program comes with two examples, however requires some advanced knowledge and familiarity with database table creation and connectivity in order to get it working properly. The finished survey is sent as an email form, which the recipient can fill and submit. Easy Survey automatically monitors your incoming mail for survey responses and then processes them accordingly.

AnswerTool is an email program add-on that allows you to save your frequently used answers (responses), then reuse them again and again without having to re-type them each time. The program allows you to organize the question/answers in different categories, using a tree-display. It can be configured to automatically paste the answer to the clipboard once a question is selected. This allows for easy pasting in your email response. Optionally, you can also drag and drop the answer into your reply. Additional features include formatting options and LAN sharing. AnswerTool is handy for customer support, investor relations, interacting with bidders in auctions, and other email-intensive jobs.

LetterDrop provides secure communications in office and university environments as an alternative to traditional email. The program looks and feels like an email client, complete with spellchecker, inbox/outbox but works in a different way - it uses a shared resource on a network and allows secure communication on the LAN between all other Letterdrop users. No one will know you are using LetterDrop, messages are thoroughly encrypted with a choice of encryption algorithms (DES, DES3 or Blowfish), no contact details are ever transmitted, and LetterDrop does not use the email system.