September 4, 2013
With this article I’d like to start a new section on our blog, called “Email Fact or Myth?“. On this section we’ll detail notorious email facts or myths. Here is the first one:
Email is dead or it will soon be obsolete
Many advocates of “next-gen technologies” underline that email is slowly dying away, as it gets replaced by other communication methods (social networks communication being their favorite example). Email is being compared to other technologies that slowly disappeared or are about to disappear, like fax machines or CDs.
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September 4, 2013
On rare occasions, when you are about to install our products, you might receive an error message saying “Failed to cache the setup file“. On this blog post we will explain its cause and solution.
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September 4, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Starting with version 5, Bells & Whistles for Outlook includes a comprehensive email statistics software engine that allows you to create reports (email metrics) about your Outlook email activity. On this article we will detail these email statistics features.
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September 4, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Up to Outlook 2010, you used to be able to choose to “Download headers only” for all your Outlook accounts. However, this changed with Outlook 2013 – this blog article describes what has changed.
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September 3, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Easy Mail Merge supports multiple mailing list source formats, including CSV files. Practically, you can import an unlimited number of mail merge columns & fields, from CSV files to your mail merge campaigns. Once your CSV content is imported, you can use it to customize (personalize) your mass emails.
However, based on your support requests, some of you have problems properly importing data from CSV files. This article tries to shed some light on formatting & importing CSV files to Easy Mail Merge.
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September 3, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This article details the unique Outlook Send Options available for your mail merge campaigns created with Easy Mail Merge. These send options work with any Outlook version, including Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019.
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September 1, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This article explains how to add hyperlinks to images inserted in Outlook 2013 – 2019 emails. It may sound trivial, but unless you are accustomed with Outlook, adding a hyperlink to an image in Outlook is not as obvious as it should be.
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August 29, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
In this article we’ll explain how to send HTML bulk emails from Outlook 2019 or older versions, using Easy Mail Merge.
As you probably know, Easy Mail Merge is an Outlook add-in designed to send bulk emails from Outlook. It creates separate emails for each recipient and it sends them one by one while also allowing you to personalize the email content using mail merge fields. It supports all Outlook versions, including Outlook 2019.
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August 19, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
With the release of Easy Mail Merge v3, we offer you even more control on your Outlook newsletter campaigns, with unmatched mass email send options.
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August 13, 2013
We are pleased to announce that Email Address Collector is now compatible with Windows Live Mail!
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July 31, 2013
In case you need to troubleshoot Outlook, it is a good idea to load Outlook without loading any 3rd party Outlook add-ins. This article explains just how to do it.
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July 30, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
When you install Outlook 2010 / 2013 or newer, it automatically disables images in emails that you are receiving. Images are disabled for security reasons, as they are widely used by spammers to validate email addresses by loading a special image inside the email content: if that image file gets downloaded from the spammer’s server, then obviously the related email address (your address) is valid & in-use by someone.
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July 28, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
If you send Outlook emails with images – and especially if you send marketing emails with images – you should want to be able to add alternative (ALT) text for your images. Most modern email clients don’t show images by default, so by adding ALT text you can describe your image even if the image itself is not displayed. For example, if your image should show a “Buy now” graphic, you can add a “Buy now” ALT text and make your email readers understand how to buy even if images are not displayed.
This article shows how to add ALT text to images in Outlook 2013 – 2019.
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July 27, 2013
Updated: April 6, 2020
Are you considering to attach or to embed a video in an email message? This article analyzes video emails and shows how to email video in Outlook.
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July 26, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Outlook 2013 introduced the ability to send an email from an email address that is not defined as an Outlook account. This article describes how to send an email from other email address in Outlook 2013 – 2019.
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July 25, 2013
Updated: April 2, 2020
There can be many occasions when you would want to send emails with a delay. For example, what if you need the email to be delivered on a different time zone, at 3AM your time? Would you stay awake until 3AM just to send that email? This article explains how to send email with delay in Outlook 2013 to 2019.
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July 24, 2013
That’s right, today we celebrate 10 years since our first email productivity software!!! Although we’ve been in the software industry for over 15 years, in the last 10 years we focused on email productivity aids, especially on Outlook add-ins. We surely didn’t reinvent the wheel, but we trust our software products made a difference for you, freeing up your time and taking the boredom out of your Outlook emails.
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July 24, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
For various reasons, some people simply prefer to always send plain text Outlook emails. This article describes how to format and send plain text emails in Outlook using the Outlook options or using a 3rd party Outlook add-in.
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July 23, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This blog article describes how to insert autotext in Outlook (Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019), using two auto-text methods: the internal Outlook AutoText feature and the auto-text options of the Bells & Whistles add-in for Outlook.
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July 21, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This article explains how to recover deleted Outlook emails, if you are using Outlook as a stand-alone, POP or IMAP email client and if you are using it as a client for Microsoft Exchange. Obviously, the first solution would be to look for the deleted emails in the Deleted Items folder… but what if you hard deleted the Outlook emails or if you emptied your Deleted Items folder?
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July 21, 2013
This article explains how to properly configure Email Address Collector for Thunderbird and extract email addresses from its email folders & contacts.
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July 21, 2013
This video tutorial details how to setup Auto Reply Manager to send Out of Office automatic replies from Outlook.
July 19, 2013
Updated: March 27, 2020
This tutorial describes four different ways to remove Outlook add-ins from your Outlook installation.
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July 19, 2013
Find out what is the maximum email size limit for emails & file attachments sent to popular email account providers, such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and others.
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July 17, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
More and more people use automatic follow up email reminders to stay in touch with their contacts and make sure they receive replies on all emails. Of course, sometimes a person simply refuses to answer your emails, but on most occasions the person simply forgets about your email or your email gets trapped into a spam folder. This article will show how to setup and send follow up email reminders from Outlook.
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July 17, 2013
Given the comments posted on our Outlook.com server settings page, we realized that some people are having problems enabling a TLS secure connection on Windows Live Mail. This article describes how to enable TLS on Windows Live Mail.
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July 17, 2013
Updated: April 2, 2020
This article describes how to extract email addresses from Outlook emails, Contacts or distribution lists and how to export them to various formats using Email Address Collector.
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July 16, 2013
No, we aren’t joking and no, we aren’t overestimating ourselves. We are sure Easy Mail Merge has the most advanced Outlook mass email engine. This article will show you how Easy Mail Merge can create complex mass email scenarios, allowing you to personalize every aspect of your outgoing mass email.
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