How to Back up or Copy Your Outlook Auto-Complete List

This post provide Outlook Support to make backup or copy your outlook Auto-Complete List.Outlook keeps most of your essential data in your PST — personal folders — file. The auto-complete list Outlook pops up when you start typing somebody’s name or address in a new message is just as essential, though, is it not?

This list, which you can really edit only with a dedicated tool, is , as it were, stored in a separate file (called NK2 file). If you want to take the auto-complete list with you to a new computer or want to make sure it is backed up regularly, you have to dig it up from within Windows’ profile directories.

Back up or Copy Your Outlook Auto-Complete List

To transfer your Outlook address auto-complete list or create a backup copy:

• Close Outlook.
• Type “%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook” (not including the quotation marks).
• Click with the right mouse button on the Outlook.nk2 file.                                                                                                                                                                               The file can also be named after your Outlook profile, e.g. Ina Cognita.nk2. Make sure the extension is nk2.

• Select Copy from the menu.
• Go to folder or medium where you want to keep the backup copy, or open the “%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook” folder on the destination computer directly.

• Make sure the copied NK2 file replaces the original default NK2 file. Either rename to match the profile name or overwrite at pasting.

How to configure Eudora email client

This post provide step by step instructions on email support and how to setup Eudora as an email client. Before you start configuring Email client ensure the following information are available.

POP or mail server
SMTP or outgoing mail server
Email login name
Email address and password

Follow the step given below:

Open Eudora, go to the Tools menu and select Options.
In the Options window, you will see several icons on the left. Select Getting Started
In the Real Name field, type the name the way you would like people to see it when they get email from you. For example, John Doe.
In the mail server (Incoming) field, enter the POP or mail server that was given to you by your Internet Service Provider. For example: pop-server.eudoramail.com.
In the Login Name field, enter the login name given to you by your Internet Service Provider. For example: eudora-user.
In the SMTP Server (Outgoing) field, enter the SMTP or Outgoing mail server that was given to you by your Internet Service Provider. For example: smtp-sever.eudoramail.com.
There should be a check in the Allow Authentication field. Leave the check there. If you do not see a check in the box, click on the box with your mouse until a check appears.
Click Ok.

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How to Use Yahoo! Mail as a Virus Scanner

This post provide email support for how to use virus scanning service using Yahoo! mail.Yahoo! Mail automatically checks any file you send (or receive) as an attachment for known viruses. When you are really short of ideas what to do next with your computer, you can use this feature to scan your files for viruses, one by one.

Use Yahoo! Mail as a Virus Scanner

To use Yahoo! Mail as a virus scanner:

• Create a new email message in Yahoo! Mail.
• Start attaching your files.
• Be sure to remove the files immediately after attaching them.

Note: You cannot scan files larger than 10 MB in Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo! Mail Classic only allows three attachments per message. And be aware that the process of scanning your files can take a very long time. Every file must be uploaded to Yahoo’s servers before it can be scanned. You cannot scan files bigger than 1.5 MB in Yahoo! Mail Classic.

How to Import Contacts from Excel or a CSV File into Outlook

This post provide Outlook support for import contact from Excel file into Outlook Contacts.Is the Contacts folder in Outlook where all your contacts are? Good. If not, chances are you can easily get them there (and use them to create a distribution list, for example).

Contact data stored in a database or spread sheet can usually be imported into Outlook without much hassle. In the database or spread sheet program, export the data to a CSV (comma separated values) file making sure the columns do have meaningful headers. They need not correspond to the fields used in the Outlook address book. You can map columns to fields flexibly during the importation.
Import Contacts from Excel or a CSV File into Outlook

To import contacts from a CSV file or from Excel into Outlook:

• Select File | Import and Export… from the menu in Outlook.

• Make sure Import from another program or file is highlighted.
• Click Next >.
• Now make sure Comma Separated Values (Windows) is selected.
• Click Next >.
• Use the Browse … button the select the desired file.
• Typically, choose Do not import duplicate items.

• Click Next >.
• Select the Outlook folder you want to import the contacts to. This will usually be your Contacts folder.
• Click Next >.

• Click Map Custom Fields ….
• Make sure all columns from the CSV file are mapped to the desired Outlook address book fields.

You can create new mappings by dragging the column title to the desired field.
Any previous mapping of the same column will be replaced with the new.

• Click OK.
• Now click Finish.

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Windows Live Hotmail – Now with Free POP Access

Windows Live Hotmail, venerable email service, gets venerable email access: you can now download messages to any email program (say, Mozilla Thunderbird), service (say, Gmail) and device (say, iPhone Mail) using POP — at least if your account is registered in the right country.
You need not hurry downloading all mail and delete it from the server, though. Windows Live Hotmail now comes with storage growing as you go. You start with 5 GB. Also new in this latest iteration of Windows Live Hotmail: a way to quickly add maps, restaurants images and other info to emails and updates (like new photos, travel plans or blog posts) from your Live connections on the Windows Live Hotmail page.

Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you 5 GB (and growing) of online storage, fast search, solid security, POP access and an interface easy as a desktop email program.
When it comes to organizing mail, Windows Live Hotmail does not go beyond folders (to saved searches and tags, for example), its spam filter could be more effective, and IMAP access to all online folders would be nice.

Pros

• Windows Live Hotmail is a simple and easy to use free email service akin to desktop email
• You can send from other email addresses using Windows Live Hotmail
• Windows Live Hotmail includes fast search and can be accessed via POP in any email program

Cons

• Windows Live Hotmail lacks virtual folders and tags for message organization
• You cannot access your Windows Live Hotmail account via IMAP
• Keyboard shortcuts would be nice, and the spam filter needs improvement

Description

• Windows Live Hotmail offers free web-based email accounts starting with growing online storage (starting at 5 GB).
• Scanning for phishing attempts, viruses and spam, Windows Live Hotmail protects privacy, security and sanity.
• You can set up Windows Live Hotmail to accept mail only from people in your address book.
• Windows Live Hotmail does not download images from unauthorized senders automatically.
• A reading pane, drag-and-drop ease and rich text editing lend Windows Live Hotmail a desktop-like handling.
• You can set up additional addresses to use in the From: line of mail you send with Windows Live Hotmail.
• Windows Live Hotmail offers fast and universal message search, and filters can sort incoming mail to custom folders.
• Optimized versions of Windows Live Hotmail provide access using various browsers and mobile devices.
• You can have Windows Live Hotmail forward incoming mail between Windows Live Hotmail accounts (Plus: to any email address).
• A vacation auto-responder answers emails for you while you are away.

Guide Review – Windows Live Hotmail – Free Email Service
Slow-loading pages and clumsy operation: the memory of what used to be web-based email — Hotmail — quickly fades as you drag and drop messages in Windows Live Hotmail, swiftly navigate its reading pane and compose rich emails.

Starting with the interface, Windows Live Hotmail is simple in both a very good and not so good a manner. You can search all your mail easily and use custom folders in tandem with filters to sort it. Windows Live Hotmail does not bother you with labels, search folders and the like. At the same time, these tools are missing when you try to organize your messages your way.

Organized or not, Windows Live Hotmail comes with solid security and privacy — it scans for viruses and does not display privacy-infringing images unless authorized, for example —, but its standard spam filter needs improvement. You can report spam easily using a “Junk” button, but that does not seem to have much of an effect.

What does have an effect, of course, is the option to allow only mail from known senders into your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox, which might be useful for some. Windows Live Hotmail does not extend that to a full challenge/response filter, though.

If Windows Live Hotmail still feels too much like web-based email to you, you can use Windows Live Mail for a yet more Windows-like experience or download your messages via POP.

Windows Live Hotmail does not offer IMAP access, though. In reverse, you can use it to send messages from any of your email addresses.

While Windows Live Hotmail does include solid address book and calendar components, the latter in particular seems secluded and not interested in too much interaction with Windows Live Hotmail qua email.