INCREDIBLE INCREDIMAIL (IncrediMail)

Member Name: MandyMinx

Product:	IncrediMail
Date:	04/01/04 (4660 review reads)
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Advantages: BRIGHT, FUN, EASY TO USE

Disadvantages: NONE

Lets face it, writing a letter can be tedious and for this reason the E mail was welcomed as a fine alternative to putting pen to paper and adding a stamp.
E mail is no longer the novelty that it once was though and tapping away at a keyboard can produce a piece of writing that looks as boring as pen on paper once did.

So what is the answer? How can you make people sit up and take notice when you send them an E mail? The answer is simple.......Incredimail!


Incredimail made its debut in the year 2000 and has in my opinion gone from strength to strength. The idea behind Incredimail is to bring E mail to life, wake it up, make it fun. With Incredimail you are able to customise your E mail making it both personal and more efficient.

The download itself is available from www.incredimail.com. (Download file size : 6 MB.)


Incredimail is easy to download, but there is demo that all you sceptics out there can view before taking the plunge.


Incredimail is available in a number of languages including English, French, Italian and German.
The programme installs at the flick of a button. Great for me because sometimes the thought of downloading something new is a put off in itself. Incredimail did it all for me and very efficiently to. It chooses the best place to store your files, pops them away neat and tidy and gives you a nice little incredimail envelope to grace your desktop.


On commencement of the programme, Incredimail send you a couple of easy to read, bright, colourful E mails to help you get started.

I think the thing that impressed me most about this programme was the simple way that it was set up to guide the user. Incredimail has an accounts wizard that helps you by locating your other active email accounts from other email programs on your computer and asking you if you would like to import the same settings from one of the accounts.

So you have Incredimail, you have
your E mail account running with it, you need then to import all your contacts and E mail addresses to your new programme. What good is futuristic E mail if you have no-one to write to? You can do this with the click of a button, it's easy. Incredimail supports multiple accounts too and those of you, like me, with Hotmail accounts need not worry, Incredimail supports them too.

Another thing I love about this set up is that I feel very much in control and to be honest I think I have definitely learnt something from using it. I use my Incredimail for reading all my E mails from both of my addresses but I was able to choose which of these I wanted to use to send my E mails using.


I can feel many of you sitting there worrying that this might be a little complicated for you. I can assure you it's not. I have to admit that I had a problem configuring my Outlook Express settings. I am really not that good at all this technical stuff but setting up my Incredimail accounts was a breeze and filled me with confidence.


OK, no more technical info, yes folks, thats about as technical as it gets with me. What makes it so great?

Well there are loads of really great things to do with Incredimail.
You can choose your backgrounds. No more sending out those flat white pages with 'hello' popped up in corner to attract someones attention. The choice of background is huge and if you don't find anything in your paper section that suits your mood, a click on the download button will take you straight to the Incredimail paper section and you can get yourself a few more, again at the click of a button. Whatever mood you are in, whatever sort of message you want to send, I bet you will find a background that suits you here.


You have your background, what about your fonts?
You can make your words big, small, curly, straight, high, low, you name it, you got it. You can draw your own signature and add it to
your mail at the click of a button. Incredimail is so much fun.

Incredimail emoticons are out of this world. Forget :0) and other old fashioned greetings. I can send kisses, flowers, blow bubbles, little cats and dogs and naughty flies with magnified eyes. If I can't find the one I want, off I go again to the download site and get some more. I can send animations, sounds and even record an audio message to someone and send it with this programme.

I have a lot of friends online so I am constantly sending out get well wishes, birthday E cards and Thank you notes. Before I got this programme I would have to scour the net for free E cards and then they get a link rather than the immediate surprise of opening a card. Incredimail gives you your own E card section and again, if you don't find what you want, one click takes you to the E card page where you can download more.


OK, so you have your mail, it's looking great all you have to do is send it. You can ask for a read request if you want. This will tell you when your mail has been opened.
Click the send button and off it goes, but not like a normal E mail, no, no, this is Incredimail, have you not grasped how innovative this is yet? The mail goes off with a whoosh, maybe it becomes a jigsaw and tiptoes away, or rolls into a scroll and flies off the screen whatever it does it goes with style. I use Norton's Anti virus and whenever I send a mail out it scans it quickly before it goes. Very reassuring. Forgotten to add something important? You have the option to call it back too.


My Incredimail checks my accounts for incoming mail every 5 minutes. Why? Because I told it to.

You can set it to check as often as you like.
When you have mail you can choose how you would like to be notified. This is my favourite option. You could have a butler, walk onto your screen and announce "You have mail Madam" or a little kitty that meows when you
have incoming. The choice is yours and a click of a button will allow you to change your notifier to suit your mood. Whatever you choose, when you have mail, you will know at once.


I hope by now I have you all thinking Wow! Well you should, it really is great fun. Knowing you lot though, someone is trying to read between the lines and find the catch. How much is all this going to cost me?
Nothing, well not for the stuff I have just told you about anyway. You get it free although you will have to put up with the odd advertisement flashing up in a one inch by four inch box in the corner of the screen. You can manage that can't you?


When you download the programme you will be given a free Letter creator option that is yours to use for a month. To be honest I never bothered because I could do most of it with my Incredimail E mail anyway. If you decide that you want to buy it though it will cost you around thirty dollars.
There is a premium service for Incredimail too. It will cost you about the same as the letter service and means that you won't get the ads in the corner of the screen and you can add a different notifier to each E mail address in your account.

Personally I can put up with the ad and am more than happy with the free service. If you decide to upgrade though, again its at the click of a button.
I want to reassure you that because this is a free service you won't get inundated with spam. I don't get any to be honest. I get the odd E mail from Incrediamail, keeping me up to date with a any new additions (about one a fortnight) and everything else is by choice.


Have I found anything to complain about?
Occasionally I will send a mail and when I talk to the person I sent it to they will say they couldn't see the pictures or the moving emoticons. I have to say though that in the past year the instances of this have decreased. What I usually get is great feedback about the coo
l mail I am able to send. I have sent and received to both Hotmail and AOL.

I first tried Incredimail when I got my computer. I was using Millennium then and I have to say it was a little glitchy. I now use XP professional and I have never had a problem. If I do have a problem it is usually because my E mail server is down. (I am with NTL....Need I say more!)



Incredimail is a great programme. It's free and it's practical. It makes keeping in touch with your friends so much fun and I have found that my Friends have really enjoyed receiving the mail I send them. Great graphics, great colours, great sound effects too. I love my Incredimail. The layout is good and pleasing to the eye. Navigation is easy and service is fast and efficient. I have found Incredimail to be very reliable.

Check out the demo, it won't hurt to look. I think you might like it. They have an extensive question and answer and section and also step by step guidelines to help you decide if this is for you.

Thanks for reading

Mandxx

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