Another Desktop Email Client Program

July 28, 2009 — Mrs. Mecomber

I’m not a big fan of webmail. I have far too many accounts scattered across Gmail, Hotmail, Live Mail, Yahoo, and my POP3 mail. It’s REALLY onerous to log in to all these places to check my mail! :-p So I’m a big fan of desktop email clients. I’ve tried them all! Eudora, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and a ton I don’t remember their names to. I liked Outlook, but after I upgraded my computer it wouldn’t run the old version I had (2000), and I wasn’t willing to shell out the big bucks for Microsoft Office. So I’ve reverted to Windows Mail, which is “ok.”

But I found another email client recently, a big one. Zimbra. It’s open source, so it’s free. And the program is HUGE. Not the file size, but what is has to offer. It’s a lot like Outlook– it has a built-in calendar, address/contacts section, etc. The calendar is very, very nice.

Now be aware that there are many “versions” of Zimbra, including a few beefed-up versions that you pay for. I just LOVE their synchronization suite (I have multiple computers and check my email on them all), but it’s a premium service and a little too pricey for my tastes. But it’s a very sleek email client, and the Zimbra Desktop is free! Can’t beat that!

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Backup Email with KLS Backup

June 20, 2009 — Mrs. Mecomber

I work from home, and saving emails and other correspondence is extremely important, for filing purposes. Printer ink is SO expensive, the last thing I want to do is print all my emails and store them in my filing cabinets! :S I haven’t found a good and simple email backup program that would just SAVE stuff and not add all these extra doodads like a Plano Cosmetic Dentist.

Well, not until now! I just tried out KLS Backup and I really like it! It not only saves email from all the “major” software programs (Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Mail Live, Thunderbird), but also saves settings from Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Seamonkey, and more. You can choose what files or folder you want saved, not as a big batch file of pre-determined settings. I love this!

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The program is free to download and use. It’s a great one!

P.S. One suggestion I have before saving email– deleted all your junk mail and deleted messages before saving files. Otherwise, you’ll end up with a huge file filled with stuff you didn’t want to save, anyway.

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A New Feed

November 13, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

Ugh, here I thought I had all the hard work over. See that little “Subscribe to Email” form in the upper right-hand side? I’ve been spending about 2 hours on that little thing, trying to get my feed subscription service plugged in. I could not figure out why it wasn’t going through! Grr! Then, the little light bulb went off! I think I still had the feeds for this blog from when it used to be on Blogger. Oh, sheesh. I never changed it! I didn’t delete the old feed, seeing that there are still some subscribers there. But I just want to let you know that I have a fresh new feed for my own domain. When you get around to it, please delete the old feed and subscribe to the new feed. You can subscribe to the new feed very easily– just click the RSS button in the upper right-hand side here, or enter your email and click “subscribe” to get emailed feeds from this blog. Sorry for the confusion. Once I see that my subscribers have all done this, I’ll just delete the old feed.

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Sneak a Peek at Email

November 3, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I get a good amount of spam. You probably do, too. UGHHH! I hate it. I HATE the stuff and I HATE hashing through it. It’s also not safe to open it unless you know exactly who has sent it. But sometimes it’s really hard to tell. How do I know for sure that the email labeled “Your Order Has Been Shipped” is the real discount furniture I ordered, or is it a scam? And is that “PayPal Receipt” is really from PayPal and not a phisher?? Well, here’s a little tip for you:

Right click on the suspicious email and choose “Properties.” A new window will pop up. You can see the sender’s email here. Now see that tab that says “Details”? Click it and you will see all the techincal information about the sender, his IP, his email, your email, and other tidbits of information. Look for the “Received from” and you can see the sender’s email source and his IP. If you take that IP and search for it using Whois or a tracing site, it will give you a general idea of where the email is coming from. So that email may LOOK like it’s from Uncle Bob in Kansas, but the IP is showing an address in Russia. Hm.

Now this is not 100% fail-proof. Emails go ’round and ’round various servers. And if Uncle Bob uses Hotmail or Gmail, hgis location is going to show the location of the Hotmail or Gmail server. So sometimes knowing the IP address is unhelpful. You can view the message without opening the email. In the Properties window, where you clicked the Details tab, you can see a button that says “Message Source.” If you click that, a new window will appear, with the message content in text form. All html source coding (and any pixel spies and also all images) will not show. You can scan the message. You’ll also see alot of html code in there for images or special font characters.

The “Properties” element in menus is one of my favorite features. I use it all the time to see what’s underlying!

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Too Much Email!

August 19, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

This is just a small rant. :S I’m realizing that I have subscribed to far too many emails. I have over 300 waiting in my inbox, email that has been sitting unanswered for about a week. I love all the email subscriptions, and a lot of them are helpful for this blog.. but I just can’t read them all anymore! How about you? Are you overwhelmed by email??

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Amic Email Backup Program

April 20, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

Amic Email Backup
I was initially very impressed with this program. It’s is a speedy little program that will backup all your emails, whether it be Opera Mail, Eudora mail, Thunderbird, or the ubiquitous Outlook Express. It will backup all your emails and settings with the click of the mouse. It stores the information in a small file and keeps it in the My Documents folder. You can move it to a safe place (like a flash drive separate from your computer’s hard drive) in case of a computer crash or reformat. I love that you can schedule it to backup automatically (I have mine set to every 2 days but you can backup every month or two or three).

When the day comes and you need to restore, you click on your stored file, and Amic begins. The process of restoring your email is another simple click away. IF IT WORKED. It didn’t work for me. The backup process went smoothly, but when I tried to restore, an error notification popped up telling me the file was corrupted.

This could be a great little program. I use Windows Vista, so perhaps this was the problem. I have not tried it on XP yet. If you are looking for a quick little program to save your email, this is free, at least. If it works for you, please let me know!

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