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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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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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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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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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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This tutorial explains how to extract email addresses from emails stored in Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird, using Email Address Collector. Also see the video tutorial: extract email addresses from emails.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This video tutorial details how to setup Auto Reply Manager to send Out of Office automatic replies from Outlook.

Updated: March 27, 2020

This tutorial describes four different ways to remove Outlook add-ins from your Outlook installation.
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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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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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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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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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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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With the release of version 6, we can safely say that Email Address Collector (EAC) is the most advanced email extractor software that you can find. This article describes its email address extractor features and usage.
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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