E-Mail Clients --- Vacation reply,E-mail traffic report ,Add-ins,MailAlert,Address book to HTML & Mail to HTML

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Vacation reply

With the help of Filter and Stationery, you can configure Eudora to reply to all e-mails that arrive within a specified period. The filter acts a dummy controller-you can draft a personalised reply, and whenever an e-mail arrives during this vacation period, the personalised draft is sent as a reply to the sender.

E-mail traffic report

One of the really useful features of Eudora is the graphical analysis of the amount of e-mails being handled. It shows a graphical chart for e-mails arrived, e-mails sent and Eudora usage. It shows the report for the current day and the previous day. Similarly, it also shows a weekly, monthly and yearly report.

Add-ins

Eudora has add-ins to facilitate and automate many frequent tasks. These are easily downloadable from the Internet. Here are some of the more popular ones.

MailAlert

This add-in runs as a standalone program, using Eudora's e-mail settings to poll the e-mail server at regular intervals. If it detects new e-mail at the server, then it pops up a window indicating the arrival. It also provides ways to reply to, read and delete e-mails directly from the server. The MailAlert add-in can be downloaded from http://www.diamondridge.com/software/mailalert/index.htm.

Address book to HTML You may want to publish your address book on your Web site for others to refer to. This add-in helps to export Eudora's address book to HTML format. It consists of an executable program, which needs to know the folder location of the address book. In Windows 98 the default folder is C:\Windows\Application Data\qualcomm\eudora. The add-in needs 'NNdbase.txt', which contains the entire Eudora address book. On clicking the convert button, an html file is created in the same folder by the name NNdbase.htm. The add-in itself provides a way to view the converted file. It is available at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/eudora/.

Mail to HTML

Mail to HTML is similar to the address to HTML add-in. Let's say you subscribe to a mailing list and have an interesting e-mail in your inbox, which you would like to share with others. You can upload this to a Web site, Intranet or Internet-based, with just a few mouse clicks. The add-in effectively converts the entire mailbox into HTML pages. It generally finds the source folder, and you have to specify the destination folder where the HTML files will reside after conversion. Apart from this you can even convert the e-mails into normal text files. The plug-in is available at http://users.erols.com/tgitlin/

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