Email Tools

• The best email programs
• Free web-based email
• Track your email
• Email tools
• Email privacy
• Fight spam
• Fax Tools

The best E-mail Programs:

• Pegasus Mail         
• Eudora   
  
       
  

Track your email:

• ReadNotify  Want to know not only if someone got your email, but when they read it, how long they kept it open and if they forwarded it to anyone? This tool does the trick. You can even find out where and when your Word, Excel, Powerpoint or other Microsoft documents are opened and if they get given to other people. Not free but worth the cost

Email tools:

• WhaleMail   Free online service so you can send 50MB files
• Messageblaster    Send message to everyone on your list by fax, phone or email
  

Email Privacy

• Pretty Good Privacy              It scrambles your email into an unreadable gibberish that can only be unlocked by you or someone you authorize.  A free version is available or you can purchase a souped-up version for about $60. 
  You can also get an authorized free version from MIT.
• Secret Mail  is easy to use because you simply "drop" your secret messages into SecretMail’s enveloppes and they are sent encrypted.
• ZipLip Delete email from your server and your recipients' servers as well.
• SnapBuild A free, safe & secure email platform.

WORD OF ADVICE: to stay out of UseNet discussion group archives, try putting in these words in your message header or the first line of your message:

x-no-archive:yes

See Spying on Chatgroups

Free  E-mail :

One of the best ways to avoid spam or to hide your identity when researching a particular story is to use one of the many free, web-based mail services.  They are not as private as email from your Internet Provider, but they are convenient and can be accessed from any computer in the world.

• Hotmail
• Yahoo
• Juno   Plus free web surfing
• Excite
  
  

Email forwarding

Tired of changing email addresses every time your server goes bankrupt?  Get one email address for life at these email forwarding companies:

• Bigfoot
• IForward

Fight spam:

The best:

• Qurb One of the best and easiest ways to keep your mailbox clean. Uses a whitelist of approved senders -- instead of a blacklist

The rest:

• IHate Spam
• ChoiceMail
• SpamAsssasinPro
• SpamExterminator        Keep the junk mail at bay
• Anti-Spam Tips
• SpamKiller
• Junkbusters
• Roadblock
  
  

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