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The following pages are a collection of mail utilities for Microsoft Outlook that don't fit any of the categories listed under More Information. There is a separate page for each type of utility and those who don't fit within the four main types of utilities are under Mail Tools for Outlook. If you are still using the older exchange clients or Windows Messaging, available tools are listed at Mail Tools for Exchange Client and Windows Messaging.

  • Sending and Retrieval Tools for Outlook
  • Mass Mail Tools for Outlook
  • Compose Tools for Outlook
  • Duplicate Remover Tools for Outlook
  • Mail Tools for Outlook
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    Sending and Retrieval | Mass Mail | Duplicate CheckersOther Tools | More Information

    Tools in the Spotlight

    EmailMerge Pro for Outlook Create and send personalized individually addressed e-mail messages using an easy Wizard in Outlook - plain text, HTML or rich text. Your recipient list can be in Outlook, Exchange Global Address Lists, Excel or Access files. You can use Categories or Distribution Lists to keep mailing lists. You can even defer and batch send your emails to get around ISP restrictions. This is your complete Outlook based solution for e-mail newsletters, business announcements and sales & marketing emails.Supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and Outlook 2007. Version 2
    Quick Templates Quick Templates is designed for fast insertion of text templates into Microsoft Outlook mail messages. Use it to enter frequently repeated text fragments, reducing the time you spend on message writing as well as typos or misprints in your messages. With Quick Templates you can create a template list and insert the text from template into a message by a single mouse click or through a hotkey you can set for each template individually.
    Reply To All Monitor Keeps Outlook from sending to your own address(es) (or anyone else's) when you click Reply to All. Also can prompt the user to confirm any Reply to All transmissions. Outlook 2000 or later. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout.

    More Tools

    Advanced Email Tracker Add-in for Outlook 2000 and later to add new tracking options -- automatic read receipt (requires the recipient to be using HTML- or web-based mail), manual read receipt, and server-based message retrieval.
    Advanced Quoting for Outlook Provides automatic coloring of lines of text, depending on the nesting level of correspondence in replies and forwarded emails allows you to look over your e-mail messages more quickly and easily manage incoming e-mail.
    Always Bcc Utility to always do a Cc or Bcc to specific recipients or to selectively copy the message based on filters the user sets. Does not trigger the Outlook security prompts. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout.
    Auto Follow Up Auto Follow Up automatically sends email follow up messages when a contact failed to reply to an email after a specified period of time. Users can choose to use follow up emails when the message is composed or they can select an already sent email and enable follow up for it. Auto Follow Up supports a variety of follow up options, so users can easily decide how to follow up on each message. The user can specify how long to wait for a reply before triggering the follow up email, enter the email content of the follow up message, choose how many follow up emails to be sent and how long to wait between them, select to be alerted or not before the follow up message is sent or manage follow up alerts.
    AutoFill BCC Create rules for filling TO, CC, BCC and SUBJECT fields of new message based on the folder where the original message is stored. Add-in allows to use different settings for different folders. The fields you don't want to change will remain the same. It only allows automatic address management, while message body remains intact. Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000 and up, fully compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server public and shared folders.
    ChooseFrom for Exchange Exchange transport event sink that allows Exchange users to specify any From address, including the secondary addresses on their mailbox. For Exchange 2007; Exchange 2000/2003 version also available.
    ClipForm Export Outlook data -- a whole folder or selected items -- to clipboard, text file, HTML email message, or other file types, with user-defined filters, HTML tags, export fields, etc. Sample templates included. Might be a good solution to the need to send a whole calendar as an email message.
    ConfidentSend ConfidentSend is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 to remove hidden data & metadata from email attachments. ConfidentSend is able to remove 39 types of potentially confidentiality compromising hidden data from 18 file types, including Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice.org / StarOffice documents, PDF documents, and popular image and media file types such as JPEG, PNG, and SVG.
    drop.io Outlook Plugin Use the drop.io Outlook plugin to automatically upload large files to the drop.io server and insert links to the file in your message. (Beta)
    Email Effects Converts pictures and tables to text.
    Email Templates Exchange/Outlook add-on to create custom replies, forwards, signatures -- inserting any type of boilerplate text into your message. Templates are stored in Outlook or Exchange folders and can contain scripting elements (in VBScript or ET's own script language) to build replies that use information from the incoming message. Various extensions can handle such tasks as mailing list subscriptions. For a rotating quote, download the Rotating Text template. Has some issues with Outlook 2002 -- make sure you get the latest update, disable RTF templates, and don't try to use ET as a custom action in Rules Wizard.
    Emoticons Mail System tray tool to add animated smilies and other "emoticon" .gif images to Outlook messages.
    HiddenBCC HiddenBCC is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002(XP)/2003 which enables you to automatically add a predefined BCC recipient to every outgoing message. Freeware version available.
    InsertText 4Outlook InsertText reduces the time it takes to write and respond to emails while also increasing the accuracy. InsertText gives you the fastest way of creating and using templates/pre-written responses in Microsoft Outlook. Write templates that you can reuse later or insert repeated text/graphics fragments or create new emails directly from templates. Much more than just copy & paste and easy to use even if you have hundreds of templates. Your templates can include email specific fields such as the message, Subject, To, CC and BCC fields. Works inside Outlook and from the System Tray. Version 3.0.20
    Mailto_URL Context menu command for Internet Explorer 4.0 or later to work around the problems using IE's File | Send | Link by E-mail command. (IE inserts a .lnk file that Outlook with the Email Security Update blocks. Even worse, in Windows XP, IE 6.0 inserts only the .lnk file and doesn't include a text hyperlink as previous versions of IE did.) This command creates a new mail message containing the link as text. Follow the Readme.txt instructions to copy the file to your system and register the command. Freeware, 2.4kb 13 Dec 2001.
    Message Assist Message Assist is an Outlook Add-in that automates and accelerates the process of everyday email tasks. Message Assist allows you to compose, reply, forward messages, insert phrases, insert pictures and files, compress attachments and file messages with a single click.
    Metadata Assistant Enterprise Cleans comments, hidden text, and other meta data from Word documents, either on demand or as they are being sent via Outlook.
    Metamail Send highly formatted messages with complex layouts from within Outlook. Free viewer available so recipients without Metamail can get all the content. Applications include messages with built-in reader-reply cards.
    Office Documents Office Documents adds powerful mail-merge capabilities to Outlook, with merge to Word DOcuments, Excel Spreadhseets and Outlook EMails. Perfect for fully personalizing email messages, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, making Aladdins the premium solution for all your mail-merge needs. Version 4.
    Outlook-QuoteFix Cleans up plain text replies and forwards by tightening the quoting characters, allowing you to specify the quote header, and moving the cursor to the bottom of the message. Beta. Free.
    PayPal Payment Wizard Add PayPal buttons -- payment request, product, service, auction payment, and donation to Outlook messages.
    Personalized Emails 4Outlook Email Merge Personalized Individually Addressed Invitations, Greetings and Sales Letters at the click of a button. Supports Outlook 2000,2002, 2003 and 2007, with or without Word as Editor.
    ReDirector COM Addin Allows you to resend an incoming message so the recipient gets it with the original sender's address. COM Addin for Outlook 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode.
    Remind me Attachments Remind me Attachments will automatically remind you that you wrote 'attachment' - or any other keyword you select – before you really send the message scanning each outgoing email. You will have then the opportunity to attach a file to your outgoing message.
    Remind me Blank Subject Remind me Blank Subject will automatically remind you that you have a blank subject before you really send the message scanning each outgoing email. You will have then the opportunity to insert a subject to your outgoing message.
    Reply all with Attachments Reply all with Attachments allows users to reply to all with attachments. For Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, requires .Net Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio Tools for Office system 4.0 Beta 1.
    Reply With Templates A tool for Microsoft Outlook that simplifies the process of replying repetitive email messages using predefined email templates. Version 1.20
    ReplyAll ReplyAll is a free tool that alerts you when you hit the 'Reply To All' button in Outlook and asks if you really want to send to all. Works with Outlook 2000.2002, 2003, 2007. Free.
    ReplyButler ReplyButler is a productivity tool that automatically pre-writes the greeting phrases (with the correct name. The text module storage saves time for anyone who answers customer e-mails. It can automatically answer e-mails for you. ReplyButler also helps you organize your e-mails by automatically moving your answered e-mails into the right folders. And if you forget an attachment, ReplyButler will remind you. Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and Outlook 2010 (32-Bit). Version 4.00 supports the plentyMarket webshop system.
    ReplyMate Save frequently used text in Outlook, then use it in your replies, forwards and new messages. Includes a Hot Paste list with your last 25 texts pasted. Works with Outlook 2000 or 2002.
    RightFrom for Outlook COM add-in for Outlook 2003/2007 that automatically fills in the correct From address when the user is responding to a message in another user's Exchange mailbox. (Use it with the UniSent add-in from the same site. UniSent keeps the outgoing messages in the Sent Items folder of the other users mailbox.) Version 1.7.0.4
    SetFrom COM Add-in for Outlook Outlook COM add-in that lets you automatically insert in the "From:" or "Have replies sent to:" field any address/alias that you need for each outgoing message. If you're mainly concerned with getting From right when replying to mail from another user's Exchange mailbox, RightFrom, from the same author, would be more appropriate.
    SilentMail for Outlook SilentMail for Outlook monitors outgoing emails and sends a blind carbon copy (BCC) of every email to a specified address. SilentMail for Outlook does this by copying the message from the Outbox mail folder, making the monitoring process invisible for the user. Supports all versions of Outlook. Does not require Exchange server.
    Template Phrases With this Outlook plug-in you can quickly insert commonly-typed phrases or blocks of text into e-mail messages, without having to type the same text over and over again.
    Video Email Free Outlook 2003 add-in for using a web camera attached to your PC to send video email messages.
    WS:Blank Reply WS:Blank Reply gives you the functionality to create new emails already addressed with the address details from an original email with one Button or Menu pick. Version 1
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    More Information

  • Content Control Tools
  • Compression Tools
  • Decoder Tools
  • Distribution List Tools
  • Fax Tools -- includes tools for scanning documents into Outlook items
  • Junk Mail Tools
  • Mailing List Tools
  • Notification Tools
  • Security Tools -- Some of these also provide message tracking.
  • Signature Tools -- including random quotes

  • Microsoft Outlook Message Form Samples -- more sample message forms 
  • CNET Downloads -- Many additional sources for Outlook stationery and mail notification utilities, among other things
  • OL2000: How to Broadcast Mail Using Outlook
  • EMail Checkers for Windows NT - Workstation
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