Before sending your email newsletter, you obviously have to create a mailing list. This article will show you a straight forward solution to create mailing lists using tools that you already have at your disposal.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

How about a nice looking HTML email template that renders just fine in Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail and all other major email client applications? Sounds pretty easy, but all email designers know how hard can it be to achieve a slick design yet still get the email to display fine across various email clients. It can be an impossible mission, if you aren’t experienced enough on designing HTML emails. But, here is a solution even for those that aren’t so familiar with the HTML email tricks.
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Updated: April 2, 2020

Updated: March 26, 2020

This article compares the Out of Office for Outlook email functionality that can be achieved using Outlook built-in rules and Auto Reply Manager – the Outlook add-in designed to setup & send Out of Office emails in Outlook.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

In this article we will explain how to create and insert an Outlook template (an email theme for Outlook). Once you do it, you can automatically apply your template / theme to all Outlook emails that you’re composing. The below instructions describe the required steps to create & use the email template file on Outlook 2013, but similar email template building steps apply to earlier Outlook versions, too.
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We are pleased to announce that all our Outlook add-ins and email tools are now fully compatible with the Outlook desktop version available under Office 365 subscriptions.
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Updated: March 27, 2020

If you are looking to take control of your mailing list and you aren’t convinced by web based email campaign services, you have to use a software solution that lets you generate and send mail merge emails by your own. Outlook is the most popular solution for desktop business emails and – since it’s next to impossible to create and manage mass emails using mobile apps – finding a way to send mass emails from Outlook is a natural choice.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

This article describes how to use the Outlook internal e-mail merge mechanism in order to create and send mass personalized emails. Although mail merge in Outlook 2013 is pretty limited, it still can be a viable solution for some of us.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Let’s say you are using Microsoft Outlook and you have to design & send a HTML email (for example, a HTML newsletter with some text & images). First of all, you will quickly learn that – if you design the email using Outlook or Word – the email source code will actually render badly on other email clients. This happens because Outlook is generating the email source code using mostly VML (Vector Markup Language) which is poorly supported by other email clients. So how do you insert HTML code to Outlook emails?
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On this article we focus on the exact HTML tags, attributes and parameters that are ignored by popular email clients, such as Outlook, Gmail or Outlook.com.

HTML tags ignored by Outlook

Outlook is using the Office / Word HTML rendering engine which does not support all HTML 4 tags / attributes. Here is a list of tags / attributes / parameters that are NOT supported by Outlook:
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Email Address Collector v6 was just released! Here is a list of all improvements available on v6.
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Bucharest, Romania, May 30, 2013 – DS Development SRL announces the release of Bells & Whistles version 5, an Outlook productivity add-in designed to help users compose emails faster while reducing the annoyances of day-to-day email tasks.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Like all email service providers, Outlook.com enforces a daily limit on the number of emails you can send per day. But, unlike the other providers, Outlook.com varies this limit depending on your account type & status. This blog article is about understanding the Outlook.com daily email send limit – which is essentially important for those that want to send an email to a mailing list, through Outlook.com.
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Updated: March 27, 2020

For those of us that are using Windows and Microsoft Office for years, the launch of Office 2013 created some pretty big confusions. Obviously, I don’t speak for Microsoft, but I’d like to try and clarify the naming conventions that Microsoft is currently using, in regards to Office, Outlook & Outlook Express.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Related article: how to remove Outlook add-ins.

Starting with Outlook (Professional) 2013, Microsoft introduced a new, easier way to troubleshoot installed add-ins. This article details the new “Slow and Disabled Add-ins” Outlook function and how you should read its suggestions.
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Bells & Whistles – the award winning productivity add-in for Outlook – will soon receive a major update, with the release of version 5.
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Printing only a text part from an email is a pretty common action. Sometimes, you only need some text bits and you aren’t going to print a potentially long email conversation only to obtain the desired text part on paper. But, as you probably discovered, the latest versions of Outlook simply don’t offer you the ability to print only selected text. You can choose to print the entire message (including the email headers) or you can choose to print emails as an Inbox table – but not only selected text.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Outlook.com is designed by Microsoft as an alternative to Google Gmail. And – just like Gmail – you can configure your favorite email client to send & receive emails through your outlook.com email account. To do so, you need to know the Outlook.com mail server settings.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

To help you solve your Outlook problems faster, we decided to put together the 5 most commonly received Outlook Send & Receive error messages and their solutions.
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As you probably know, each Facebook account is given a Facebook email address, like john-doe@facebook.com. When someone sends an email to your Facebook email address, you will receive the email as a Facebook message, available in your Facebook Messages tab.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

First of all, it’s important to clarify that Microsoft currently markets two (very) different Office versions: Office Professional and Office 365.

Office Professional is actually the “old” desktop Office version (the one that everyone is familiar with, for many years), while Office 365 is the web version (or cloud version) of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office 365 (initially called Office Online or Office Live) was actually around for some years too, but – with the release of Windows RT for Surface & other mobile platforms – it will become more and more popular. Some Office 365 subscriptions also include the desktop Office application versions, such as Outlook or Word – to avoid further confusions, in this article we refer to Office 365 as the web based version.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

This article describes the Microsoft Office Outlook data file types and their default locations on Windows and Mac OS X.

What is an Outlook data file?

To put it simple, an Outlook data file is a file where Outlook stores your emails, tasks and other Outlook related information. A data file can be located on your local disk or on a network path.
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Updated: April 6, 2020

Sometimes, emails can get stuck in your Inbox, Outlook or Sent Items folder and you are unable to move or delete them, while Outlook reports an “unknown error”. This article describes various solutions to this problem.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Well, the simple answer is that Microsoft removed the Diagnostics / Inbox Repair tool starting with Outlook 2010.

For Outlook 2000 and 2003, Microsoft included a Detect & Repair tool available from the Outlook Help menu. In Outlook 2007, this tool was replaced with the Office Diagnostics tool (also available from the Outlook Help menu). The Detect & Repair tool was supposed to check your Outlook installation and data files for errors / corrupted data.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

From time to time, you may notice some weird emails in your Outlook Inbox folder: blank emails that only show a date, without a sender and sometimes even without a subject or email content. Like these:

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If you upgraded to Windows 8 and you are using any of our Outlook add-ins, on some cases you may find that Outlook triggers error messages similar to:

BWOpts.exe – Application Error
The instruction at 0x006d07c5 referenced memory at 0x00000006. The memory could not be read.
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Great news! We are working hard on a new version of Email Address Collector. The new version will include:
– support for extracting email addresses from even more sources;
– improved search & extract engine;
– more extraction filters;
– new export options;
– redesigned menus.

To be released: winter 2012 / spring 2013. Stay tuned for more release news.

This article describes the required steps to create a list of bounced email addresses using Email Address Collector. You can then use this bounced list to exclude these email addresses from your mailing list.

1. Download and install Email Address Collector;

2. Launch Email Address Collector with Outlook running in the background (it loads faster this way, but you can launch it independently as well);
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