Incredimail (IncrediMail)

Member Name: Lisa.Marie

Product:	IncrediMail
Date:	07/08/03 (2937 review reads)
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Advantages: free, easy, designing you own letters

Disadvantages: none

*~*~*INTRODUCTION*~*~*

I have been using Incredimail for a few years now; it is very effective email client. Using this will brighten any mail you send, rather than sending the old boring plain white background, in which some people prefer as it is simple and clean, others don?t like me. There are many things you can use with this program to brighten emails up which include things like; Letters, animations, sounds and even e cards. So let me tell you more about this fascinating email client.

*~*~*DOWNLOADING/INSTALLING*~*~*

Download incredimail from www.incredimail.com this process doesn?t take long to do if you have a fast connection. Choose a destination for the download to be located too, and click ok. Then when finished click on the installation icon as this will start the installation going, this will only take a few minutes if that, again choose a destination for the program to go to then click ok.

*~*~*STARTING INCREDIMAIL*~*~*

Click on the setup icon on your desktop or in your destination folder which is represented by an orange envelope. When clicked on this you will have a dialog box come up with question on the setup on the incredimail, answering these questions with help with the setup, and your email accounts. The questions are very easy to answer, and will only take a few minutes, incredimail will also search and add your email account if you have one setup on your computer if not you can manually add it. The final question will be if you would like incredimail to be your default email client or not, click either yes or no.

*~*~*USING INCREDIMAIL*~*~*

After all the above is completed then it is time to have a browse around incredimail client, see what goodies you have that no other email client as to offer. You have the same as any other clients when it comes to your inbox, contact list, mail viewer, folders, outbox, sent and deleted items etc.

Let?s get to the exciting part of
incredimail you will see when you go to write a new email that there is a side bar that opens out, this is where you can choose what letter, animation, sounds and e card to use for your mail. You can also have a trip to the incredimail Gallery through this too, at the end of the list, you will notice a shortcut link to get more, click on that and this will take you to a webpage that contains more and more letters, animations, etc, all downloadable and free.
Above this section you will see the categories of the things I have named above to use with in your mail.

Sending mails couldn?t be more fun with this program, and like any other email client you can change your font, text size and guess what else, you can even add an emoticon how good and different is that. This feature can be found at the side of the text size button. Also you will notice there is a inbuilt spell checker too, so no more spelling mistakes, there is the option of typing sounds either have them on or off, another add feature is 3d effects when sending the email, depending on the letter, etc you choose this will vary on what 3d effect you will have. But all adds to the fun of mailing.

Another great feature with this program is the email notifiers, no more keep checking every few minutes to see if you have mail, there are a number of notifiers available for this client; this will pop up when you have got new mail. There is also more you can download from the gallery. You can also download more skins for incredimail client itself but you can only use this option if you have paid for the software unfortunately.

The letter creator will let you design your very own letters for incredimail which will get saved to your incredimail letters. I have had lots of fun in using this feature. You will find this in the incredimail folder or when you compose an email then if you look at the bottom of the letters, animations etc, if you click there you can open it.

You us
e this by the step by step instructions and guide lines it gives you, it is very simple, once you have chosen which font, picture, image, and sounds you want then save your image on your computer as well as adding into incredimail like you would any letter you download off the internet for incredimail.

*~*~*DOWNLOADNG EXTRAS*~*~*

Downloading the extras are quick and fast to download this will only take a few seconds, and will automatically add them to your incredimail client in the appropriate category, E.G Letters will be added to letter etc. You can either download the entire collection or by just downloading the odd one out the collection.

*~*~*LAST THOUGHTS*~*~*

I have enjoyed using this program it brings emails to life and brings more fun to them. You can say so much without typing but just using the letters etc to express your words. This is a great program to use for spicing up your mails and making them less boring. Above all else it is free and so are the additions you can download too, you can be there a long time downloading all the additions; I would know I have been there.

It is very easy and simple to setup and use, it is very hard to go back to the old boring plain email default client (outlook express) people may like outlook express as so did I until I came across this and now I wont use anything else.

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