Many friends use Outlook Express (hereinafter referred to as OE) in the IE software package to send and receive emails. For beginners, it is indeed easy to use this software according to the prompts or wizards, but for some users who want to understand it in depth and use it efficiently, the wizards and online help seem a bit powerless. Because I have not mastered some of the techniques and methods, I often encounter problems of one kind or another and cannot understand them, so I take many detours during specific operations. In order to make it more convenient and faster for everyone to use OE, the author will share with you some of my daily accumulated experience and communicate with you.

Outlook Express Tips and Applications

1. How to use OE to create an email signature?

First open the OE main operation window, click the "New Mail" button in the toolbar with the mouse to open the "New Mail" editing window. Enter the signature content in the body of the letter, including mailing address, postal code, telephone number, mobile phone, call machine, OICQ number and other contact information.

After completing the input, click the "File" menu item in the menu bar with the mouse, select the "Save As" command from the pop-up drop-down menu, and select the file you want from the pop-up file selection dialog box. Where to save, set the save type to "HTML file", enter a file name such as "signature", and then click the "Save" button. If you want to use sound and image files in your signature, such as *.wav, *.midi and seal images, you can edit the signature.htm file.

Then select "Tools"/"Options" in the main email operation window, click the "Signature" tab in the pop-up options dialog box, and then click the "New" button under the tab , "Signature #1" will appear in the "Signature" list, click the "Set as Default" button to set it as the default value, then click "Advanced" and select it in the "Advanced Signature Settings" dialog box that opens. To use the check box in front of the signature account, select the "File" radio button in the "Edit Signature" item column, and through the subsequent "Browse" button, select the "signature.htm" just saved as the signature file.

Continue to click the "New" button under the "Signature" tab and add "Signature #2". At this time, select the text file "signature.txt" just saved as the signature file, and select "In Add signature to all outgoing emails" check box, click the "Apply" button, and then click "OK."

When you open the email editing window again, you will see that the prepared signature will be automatically inserted into the new email, and you can hear beautiful music. If you use text format to send emails, just set the text signature file as the default. When you click the "Send" button, the following window pops up: Click "Yes" and you can still see the picture when receiving the email. As shown in the figure:

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2. Automatically sort incoming emails and automatically reply

Use Outlook Express to implement emails through enhanced email rules Automatic classification function to automatically put received mails into different mail folders.

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(1) In Outlook Express, create multiple folders to store various work-related emails, and then click the "OK" button; ( 2) Select the "Tools/Mail Rules/Mail..." command. If no mail rule has been created before, the system will directly enter the "New Mail Rule" dialog box; otherwise, it will enter the "Mail Rules" dialog box, and then click Click the "New..." button; (3) In the "New Email Rule" dialog box, select "If the 'Sender' row contains a user" under "Rule Conditions" and "Rule Action" under "Rule Conditions". Move to the specified folder", then we will see that there is more content in the "Rule Description" in the third column. Then click the "Include Users" hyperlink in the "Rule Description"; (4) Type the sender's name in the "User" box, and then click the "Add" button, or click the "Address Book..." " button to directly select the sender, as shown in the figure:

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(5) Return to the "New Email Rule" dialog box, click "Specify" in the "Rule Description" "Hyperlink", the "Move" window appears, we can select one of the "Local Folders", such as the "Letter from Friends" folder under "Inbox". As shown in the figure:

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Then rename the rule, such as "Mail Rule #1", and finally click "OK"; OK, let's create a second email rules. This is a very useful rule, especially for lazy people like me. Or in the "Select Rule Action" column, check "Use Email Reply", click on the blue underlined "Mail" item in the "Rule Description" column, and in the "Open" window, select the one we have written Email, click [Open].

At this point, our rules have been established, that is, this rule will be applied after the email arrives; if the 'Sender' line contains 'Rob@263.net'; move to the friend's greetings folder and use E: \MyDocuments\OE\Received! Thanks! .eml reply". We named this email rule "Friends".

Now, you can automatically receive emails, classify them, and automatically reply to specified emails.

(6) Repeat steps 2 to 5 to create sorting rules for each email.

3. Back up your emails

Although IE's Outlook Express can export emails. Unfortunately, you can only import one letter at a time. If you have a few letters, that’s fine. If you have more letters, you need to use the following method. Specific steps: (1) Open Outlook Express and enter the mailbox you want to back up, such as the inbox. ; (2) Select the emails to be backed up. Hold down the Shift key and click on the first and last emails to select all; hold down the Ctrl key and click on the required emails to select multiple emails; (3) Use the left mouse button Click "Forward Email". At this time, the email you just selected is included in the new email as an attachment; (4) In the "New Email" dialog box, select "Save As (A)" in the "File" menu. .." command, and then give the email a file name.

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The above method can selectively export the email. If you want to save the email completely, then Go to the C:\WINDOWS\ApplicationData\Identities\{B225D520-FF2E-11D5-B5CE-BE936A025578}\Microsoft\Outlook Express folder (for WIN98) and back up all the files in X:\ In the DocumentsandSettings\Username\LocalSettings\ApplicationData\Identities\{53CF67BB-B2B7-4B31-9C9A-39757F349280}\Microsoft\Outlook Express directory, the numbers in {} are definitely different, as shown in the figure:

4. Save your emails separately

In Outlook Express, you can easily save emails. Click "File" → "Save As" in the window to view emails, and then give your email. Give the email a name, and the email will be automatically saved as a file with the .eml suffix. In the future, you don't even need to open Outlook Express, you can just double-click the xxx.eml to read it directly with the Outlook Express email viewer. You can also send this email file as an attachment. However, you should pay attention to one thing: the so-called email file is actually a combination of an ordinary HTML file and the header of the email. , which also includes graphics. This is very convenient to use!

5. Quickly open the contact properties window

What should you do if you are in the window reading emails and want to open the contact properties window to further set up the address book? Woolen cloth? You may say: Click "Tools" → "Add to Address Book" on the toolbar, and then select the sender or recipient... It's too troublesome, isn't it? Let me tell you a secret trick to quickly open the contact properties window: Just double-click the specific names behind "Recipient" and "Sender" in the mail-reading window to directly enter the properties window of the item you double-clicked. As shown in the figure:

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6. Let your name be fully displayed in "Contacts"

Chinese custom when filling in the address book When you fill in the contact information in the address book, you will be faced with the following method of filling in the name: fill in the first half with "last name" and the second half with "first name"; then the contact name will appear in the "Display" space. result. If you really enter your friend's first and last name honestly, you will definitely find this phenomenon: there is an extra space in the middle when your friend's last name and first name are displayed!

We usually don’t have the foreign habit of leaving a space between the first and last name when writing our names. However, this Outlook Express does not consider the Chinese people. It just wants us Chinese to get used to their foreigners’ ways. Set... is this okay? ! And now I need to enter the information of the "Editorial Department", what should I do?

In fact, it is very simple to deal with this situation: just fill in all the names of the contacts in "Display (P)", and the address book will become "localized" obediently. This does not affect any other functions and is really a way to kill two birds with one stone.

7. Add more beautiful wallpapers to your letters

Design beautiful stationery. Who doesn’t want the emails they send to be more beautiful? This not only saves face, but also shows off your personality, so why not do it! Outlook Express provides us with several stationery papers. When writing a new email, click the small arrow on the right to select the stationery paper. how? Do you think there is too little letter paper and it is too monotonous? That's right. According to Microsoft's consistent artistic level, good-looking things always have to be designed by yourself.

You must select "Select Stationery" after clicking the small arrow to the right of "New Mail", so that you will see a window for browsing HTML pages. Select any Web page from here and it becomes your stationery. Haha, this is of course a lazy way. If you want to try your creativity, you can click "Create Stationery" on the right side of the menu "Tools/Options/Composition", and then a wizard specifically for designing stationery will appear. And guide you through the rest of the steps step by step. You can also download more beautiful stationery papers from Microsoft's corresponding website to add luster to your letters. Click the "Compose" tab in the "Options" dialog box, and when connected to the Internet, click the "Download Other" button to take you to the website where you can download new stationery. You can download various types of stationery to your heart's content. The downloaded program can be directly Just install it.

Of course, the Stationery Design Wizard has its limitations - you can even only create ordinary HTML pages here. What should you do if you want your email to be better? Haha... Let me remind you, have you forgotten that Outlook Express is built on the core of Internet Explorer? Well, use a more advanced web editor to create your stationery. Think about what is more beautiful? Flash...

You can use some web design tools such as DreamWeaver to design your own page, and then name it and save it. Open the Among them, send a personalized email to your friend (X is the system drive letter). In WIN98 it is C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftShared\Stationery\.

8. Send wonderful web pages to your friends!

Directly send web pages. Sometimes we will see some wonderful web pages and want other friends to see them, so it is the easiest way to send the pages directly by email. , so that your friends don’t have to search for web pages themselves, and you can avoid a lot of trouble in sending web pages using this method. Think about it, if you want to send the homepage of a website to a friend, what should you do? First save the page, and then add the HTML page and pictures to the attachments... Wait, it's not that simple! Attachments cannot include folders, which means you have to edit the hyperlinks on the page! Haha...

With the Send Web Page function in Outlook Express, you can easily share wonderful pages on the Internet with your friends. You don't have to think about whether to download and process the page at all, just select "Web Page" in the drop-down menu of "New Email", and then fill in the URL of the page you want to send in the new window.

Finally click "OK" and the page will be automatically downloaded and displayed in a new email writing window.

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