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

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.

Are you using good and reliable news server

As you may already know, not all Usenet servers are the same. The key items to a good server are good retention and completion rate. How to tell if your news server is a good one?

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.

PAR and PAR2 file formats on the Usenet

PAR and PAR2 files can be used to reconstruct missing parts of the Usenet posting. If used correctly, they can be very handy.

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.