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Guday from New Zealand,

I,ve just discovered Incredimail   http://www.incredimail.com/eng…..plash.aspx   and it llooks brilliant. Ramesh, Incredimail is far more comprehensive than the scources you gave
me. Unforunately, I do not know whether its like Smileys Central, which puts heaps of spyware in XP. Both sites boast that they are free of nasties !!!!!

Please tell me how to test, or find out if Incredimail is free of nasties.

Thanks in advance Bill3

Hi Karen,

wow, have I stuck lucky, Grand Master too, that was the most succinctly posted answer I think I have ever seen. Thank you very much. Basically, Cnet being the authority, give it a good review, and their credentials are very respectable.

I have always used Thunderbird V2, but I can install Incredimail along side it, and check it out.

I have a lot of correspondence in Thunderbird, so I cannot afford to have it corrupted, but I would like to jazz it up a bit with some emoticons. Perhaps you would be so kind as to offer me some more advice, as you are obviously knowledgeable upon this matter. This is what I have been advised so far by Ramesh, who was very helpful :

Smilie websites are dangerous, as for each smilie you download they give you a virus.

There are 3 safe ways:-

1 Download 91 Smilies from Yahoo. It gives you a cheatsheet of how to type out the Smilie.

2 Take it from Codex. It gives you a cheatsheet of how to type out the Smilie – it also gives good WordPress tips regarding Smilies. Our blogsite btw uses WordPress

3 Locutus our administrator in http://www.dottech.org taught me that if you type : followed by ) you get :) & if you type : followed by D you get :D

Problem is once you have done it, its done.

Best regards Bill3, hope your weathers warmed up a bit over there.

Thanks everyone, nice to meet some handy guys and gals.

LOCUTUS                 Thanks, you tried to save me a lot of hassle, even though your comment wasn't that clear. I can't use your download link to the modified Mailtagger, because it wants to install into Firefox. Please could I have a link to just download the file, then I can use it for other builds. I though there was a emoticons addon for Thunderbird, but as with a lot of things, one needs to know what to google.

OZZIE           Thanks. Charm is for the ladies, seriously though she did make a very succinct post, and it is always wise to encourage excellence to promote good forums. Our dear old friend Ramesh will attest to this, he should have been a diplomat.

I do see your point about emoticons, and really I just wanted something to give a bit of life, and definition to emails. Incredimail is completely overboard, and I will probably uninstall it after I have tried it out. Something like mailtagger or those Ramesh suggested, look more my style.

Incredimail is great for girlfriends, but not for business. Also, I guess it will use up a lot of my data allowance from my ISP. I don't have unlimited like you do in the States.

RAMESH         Hi old buddy, Grand Master too !!!!!. I appreciate hearing from you. Thanks for the advice. Where do you live, I notice everybody keeps this secret, but that makes it difficult to relate to people.

1 Re email client. I was advised back in 2005, by a super expert, never to use Outlook express or Internet Explorer, because it is used on mass by vunerable people, so hackers target it for nasties. Presently, I am aware of Thunderbird V2.0.0.23 being the only viable email client, V3 has many problems, so if you want the old version, email me direct, and I will send you an extract from one of my manuals, on how to get it.

2 Outlook Express being imbedded into XP does not make it safer, in fact just the opposite. Remember Sandboxie.

3 It is quite OK to have  more then one email client, but you can only have one as the default, which you set on installation.

4 Digital signatures, thanks I've put it in my manuals. I am however, working on a simple, foolproof, time saving method, to keep my operating system clean of nasties, and drastically reduce time spent on updating programs. I'll do the tests when I build my new computer, as it has 2 hard drives necessary for the system. I should complete this project about June 2010.

5 I suspect your original suggestion for emoticons, is probably going to be the most sensible for me.

EVERYONE      while I've got your attention :

1 I do hope my email address is not available for everyone to see in my profile, if so please remove it, as only the administrators of the website should be able to see it.

2 Is it possible that one of you experts know of another simple, email client that is better than Thunderbird. Of course I can google this, but I have no knowledge of Pegasus for example, and running the tests is very time consuming, so perhaps someone you know has already done them.

Best regards to everyone From Bill3.