Thread Compressor for MS Outlook

In the usual course of communication via e-mail, there’s a conversation chain. Conversations do usually follow a simple principle. User A writes an email to User B. User B receives the email, reads it and replies to User B. The reply includes all of the content that was send to User B plus the reply. User A receives the email and then replies back, again with all the contents included that he initially send to User A, plus the reply of User A plus his own answer. And so forth.. The amount of data in mail keeps on increasing as we just hit either to reply which by default carries the previous mail data.

Thread Compressor (http://threadcompressor.co.uk/) is an add-in to Microsoft Outlook, which removed unnecessary emails from a "thread" - reducing the amount of storage required (maybe keeping your mailbox within its size quota) and reducing the number of emails you need to read.

Once this is installed as an addin, it automatically compresses all the mails by default which the author also warns on his site “Let me say that again: Thread Compressor, as it is configured by default, WILL DELETE DATA FROM YOUR INBOX.”

With TC, you may choose to have it actively delete content. Otherwise, you could have it move "compressed" items to your Deleted Items folder or some other folder you may create (in a PST file, for example). There's also an option on the Advanced tab to have it not remove mail, but just mark it as read. Or to keep various flavours of mail (like high priority ones).

Installation & Instructions to use can be found from the author’s site. Play around, you’ll end up saving a good quantity of mailbox space.

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Free Temporary Email Address

Have you ever come across a website that required you to fillup a registration form with valid email id to give download link or software key or just to validate email before getting registered on their site?

Did any website reject your gmail, hotmail, yahoo & other free webmail id?

Do you have the necessity of creating an email id for temporary use only (say minutes or hours)?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then the below websites will be very useful (in order of my personal preference). All of them provide free temporary email address.

10MinuteMail (http://www.10minutemail.com)

• Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page.
• You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them.
• The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes.
• You can also extend the expiration for another 10 minutes.
• The domain names are not fixed and keep changing.

YopMail (http://www.yopmail.com)

• Lets you choose your own username @yopmail.com
• Is feature rich and has an interface similar to any other realistic webmail provider.
• Provides RSS Feeds, ability to delete mails, forward to other mail id.
• Messages are kept for 5 days.

Mailinator (http://www.mailinator.com)

• Alternate domains
• Provides RSS, widgets for checking mails
• Messages are kept for a few hours

Do not provide your personal email id for temporary or common registrations. Use a disposable email id instead.

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Outlook Attach View

To those for whom Microsoft Outlook is second life and their administrator has set limits on the mailbox size, Outlook Attach View is a tiny(78k) portable life saver.

The software program scans the emails of the Microsoft Outlook version that is installed on the computer system for email attachments. These Outlook email attachments are then displayed in a table format which gives the user options to sort the data in all possible ways. The information that are extracted from the Outlook emails are the filename of the email attachment, the recipient, file size and data of creation among other values.

Email attachments can be selected by the user to retrieve additional information about them. It is possible to save email attachments by selecting them and clicking on the Save selected items button in the software program. It is furthermore possible to delete selected email attachments directly in the software as well. This could be a handy way of copying email attachments from Outlook to another hard drive to free up some disk space.

The list of email attachments that has been found can be exported into various formats including text, html and xml.

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