Email Cleaning Utilities

eCleaner -- From Simtel. Do you forward your favorite e-mail jokes to all your friends? Your wit will be better appreciated if it doesn't arrive with ">>>>>" at the beginning of every line. This nifty little program removes them from e-mail messages, making them look cleaner and preventing choppy word wraps. Now if only it made the jokes funny.    eCleaner, is also available from    AnswersThatWork.

emailStripper -- A free program for cleaning the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails. It will restore "forwarded" or "replied" emails back to their original state so they're easier to read.

StripMail -- A freeware utility that strips the characters ">" and "|" from forwarded e-mails, formats the text into paragraphs, making it easier to read, changes the text's right margin, by indenting, can be used with any e-mail client.

eFilter -- Copy the text you want to filter, paste it into the eFilter's window, and eFilter automatically rips out all those ">"s so you don't have to. Then, you need only copy and paste the filtered text into a new e-mail.

Free E-Mail Cleaner -- From the author Steve Chin: "This is for those of you who distribute a lot of jokes. I got tired of cleaning up all of the Unix reply marks ('>') and the lines that got chopped up by multiple word-wrapping. So, I decided to write up a really quick application that does all of this for you." Download hosted by Ron Brandon. This utility is also hosted on the personal site of Gavin in South Africa

StripEm -- Forwarded email always has a bunch of >>>'s in them making it hard to read the message. StripEm removes all those characters from emails as well as any other character you choose.

UnReply -- Text Cleaning Utility for Windows.

Other Email Resources

ERC -- A free email redirecting utility that retrieves mail from one pop3 account (V1.09 supports up to 99 pop accounts) and redirects the mail to another pop3 account. ERC does not require you to have a domain name. For example, you could use it to redirect mail from your home account to your work account or visa versa.

Free Email Providers Guide -- Has re-launched with new features. Now users can search the listings of 1200 free email providers from 85 countries. Users are guided through a process to choose an ideal email provider that has the features they need. Fepg has also broadened their services to include free fax, free voicemail, free long distance calls and other free services.

TalkSender -- Easily add audio to your email. Free, really small, light, easy and fast. 1 minute is all it takes from the time you click on the "download" button til when you're sending voice messages to anyone on the internet. There's no setup or configuration involved. It allows anyone, right from the desktop, in 3 simple steps, to:
1)speak into the microphone.
2)pick a recipient.
3)send a voice message.
your recipients need nothing extra to listen to your messages. They hear it right away when they open your message, and you need a sound card and speakers, but if you don't have a microphone, don't worry, they are giving away free microphones too.

Email Scanner -- This little utility for Win95 and above scans through emails and extracts all the email addresses. These can be output to a text file, either line separated or separated by semicolons so it can be pasted into the "To" box of your mail client.

Mailbag Assistant -- This is a powerful and user-friendly program for Windows that compliments your email software. This utility will help you view your mailboxes, find messages quickly, group emails, and archive them. It's especially designed for people who receive and keep large amounts of email, but is also useful to anyone having difficulty organizing their messages, searching for old emails, and archiving their correspondence. It currently reads Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express4 (OE4 Only), Pegasus, The Bat!, FoxMail, Calypso and Agent mailboxes. Support for other mailbox formats is planned for future versions of the program.

Dawn Wizard -- This makes converting address books easier than ever. The days of manual exports and imports are over. Most major email programs, including Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus and more are now supported directly. In literally five clicks the addresses are seamlessly moved from here to there. Dawn converts a list of email addresses to various formats of address books. It also sorts email addresses by nickname or email address. Dawn is available for Windows 95/98/NT and UNIX systems.

Eudora Pro -- Now free! Qualcomm now offers their popular email client software as "Adware". That means it's free to use, but in exchange you will see small ads in the lower corner of the software.

IncrediMail -- This is another free email client that's getting rave revues from most of it's users. Vinette DePhillipe, for example, who is a regular contributor to our ezine uses it and thinks very highly of it.

MailTo-Encrypter -- A freeware product that has been especially designed to stop spam. It can be used to 'encrypt' your email address, so that the spammer's tool can't grab it from your website. The email address is still displayed correctly in your browser and the mailto-tag is also still working correctly. Editor's Note: MailToEncrypter converts ordinary text to ASCII codes which many web spiders are, unfortunately, able to read. I've located two sites which have online conversion tools capable of converting a string of text, or HTML code into a javascript which offers a better protection. The first, and least complicated, is located on the website of Neil Kitching and the second, quite sophisticated is available from Hiveware.   I've had very good success with both of these.

Slugmail -- Free, easy help with email overload. This service lets you set up a reminder message that you can receive on any day you want. You can send a reminder to: monday@slugmail.Com, tue@slugmail.Com, 21sep@slugmail.Com, etc. It's easy, it's free. No membership charges, registration, or junk advertising. It works with any email program, operating system, or type of email account. You don't need to install any software on your system. No 'cookies' are deposited on your system. Examples: if you receive an email that you would rather deal with next Thursday morning, just forward it to "thursday@slugmail.com" or for you Spanish speakers 'jueves@slugmail.com'. If you want to remember to follow up on an email that you send, just Cc it to slugmail. they will return the message on the day you select. All seven days of the week are supported, plus 'tomorrow', in english and spanish.

epAssist -- Personal assistant. Control your pc via email. Imagine your machine at work being watched by your trusted personal assistant. You could be at home, on the job site, in a hotel, or emailing through your palmtop. Have your assistant send you your unread email, save a document on your hard drive, and then print it out on the company printer. The assistant communicates to you and you to it through email. Requests such as 'please send unread messages' or 'please send me this file' can be handled. Note: The free version is somewhat crippled in features but nevertheless funtional.

Easy Notification -- A free email checker program. It gives you the ability to check for new messages on multiple pop3 servers. You can also use it to delete messages from a server. It runs in the system tray and it can detect online/offline modem connection before checking for new messages.

Spam (usolicited commercial email) has become a real problem for just about everyone who uses email. Here are some websites where you can learn about spam, and maybe even a little about how to fight it.
Fight Spam on the Internet.
The Open Relay DataBase.
The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email ..

Kinko Development Zone -- Instantly access the phone numbers of your contacts(fax, emails, addresses), by clicking on the icon next to the clock. They appear in a menu and are sorted by letter or are directly visible. Click on a mail address and your favorite email software appears allowing you to write to your contact. You can also copy the card of a contract to the clipboard. Tons of other software on this site too, and all freeware! (Click oN tHe British flag for English Language, or the French Flag for Française.

Junkmail.com -- If you can't beat them, join them. Here, you can get a free address at junkmail.Com. OK, it's frivolous, but maybe good for a laugh, so i included it.

Spam-Free E-Mail -- ChooseYourMail.com has created the ultimate free e-mail, a service that stops the e-mails you hate while delivering the e-mail you want. We put you in total control of your e-mail account. No more bulk spams, scams or filth - just the messages you want.

T-Mail -- Real-time email translation. A service that anyone can use to send text documents to foreign language friends or biz contacts. The following language translations are currently supported: English to Spanish, French to English, English to Italian, English to French, German to English, Italian to English, English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English to German, And Spanish to English.

Safe-Mail -- Free web-based email without all of the advertisements? Sound good? Well it's better than that. How about real privacy. We all know that anything sent in an email can be viewed by others. Not if you sign up for safe-mail. All email is done on a secure server so it's totally private.

Messenger Express -- Do you use Mircrosoft Outlook 97 or 98 for email (not Outlook Express)? This freeware lets you send messages without opening Outlook.

SpamBuster -- It will check your mail, mark messages that are known to be spam and then offer to delete them. You can customize all the settings and decide what is to be considered junk. Create your own killlist and more. Now free.

LetterBox -- A pop3 email notification program that sits quietly in your system tray and at a preset interval, checks to see whether any email has arrived for you. Fully configurable. Bundles of features: plays wav files, runs your email client or whatever when new email is found, support for multiple mailboxes, delete-off-server (for getting rid of spam, etc.), automatic delete-off-server according to rules you specify and so on. Can be set to check for new email only when you're already online so that it doesn't keep dialing up when you don't want it to. Very handy and free. (There are other freeware applications on this site too.)

FreeTrip -- A free email service for truckers and has placed terminals in hundreds of U.S. truck stops. Registered users avail of a touch-screen to check and send their email. The service is free. This is also a fantastic site for planning a road trip with lots of features.

JBMail -- A very small but powerful program that lets you view, preview, delete, print and save emails from a pop3 mailbox. A huge time saver. All functions are done right off your mail server, so you can check, read your mail or delete junk mail as quickly as possible without having to download anything that you don't want.

JustPOP3 -- A small email checker and reader for people not looking to take up a lot of disk space. It allows you to check, read and delete messages from an unlimited number of pop3 servers. The mail reader supports ASCII (plain text) and HTML Formats while making URLs clickable. It also comes with a quick mail sender with an address book as well as a quick webbrowser with bookmarks and a history list.

Kookie Jar -- Signature generator/randomizer, for use with email and news clients that support using external file as signature. Highly configurable. Add, remove, edit sig quotes. Choose quotes randomly at time intervals you specify or manually. Option to save sigs as rtf for Outlook Express.

Mail2Web -- A revolutionary service which lets you to use your pop3 email through an easy web interface. Whether you are traveling on the road or sitting behind a firewall, you only need Mail2Web to read and to reply your email. Compatible with Windows, Mac, or Unix. It lets you have control of your email without hassle.

RemoteMail32 -- This is a pop3 remote mail client that allows you to rid your mailbox on your ISP's server of large attachments, without having to download all of the mail. A simple, handy tool. Free 170kb (scroll down the page to find it).

HushMail -- The world's first free, fully encrypted, web-based email system. Speak freely with Hushmail. [Editor's Note: If you don't use this account for three weeks, it expires, and their software doesn't come with an uninstaller.]

Email Remover -- A small yet efficient utility that will help you delete unwanted mails without the hassle of having to download entire messages. It works by retrieving only the mail headers and let's you preview the first few lines of your meassages.

Mailandnews.com -- Email by phone! Free email accounts, just like microsoft's hotmail. The difference is that you can read, send and reply to email at mailandnews.Com either from any touch tone phone as well as from a browser or email software. They give you a phone number to call, a user id and password when you call and enter your info, a computer voice reads your mail. You can reply or forward messages by speaking into the phone. The system will send the email with a sound file of your voice message attached. It also works with other internet email clients, allowing you to access your new mailbox using Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, etc.

Index -- Free email address directory - "over 100 sources of free email addresses, plus lots of places to look up email addresses"

Pop3Now -- The only free service on the internet that lets you have direct access to your pop3 email box from anywhere in the world! All you need is a web browser; no setup time and no special user accounts! Fully secure, web-based mail reader using ssl 3.0 Data Encryption Technologies.

Mail Start -- Check your email from anywhere.

Emailtoday --check your email online, email tech news, send emails and download internet marketing software.

Eudora Web-Mail -- Web based email from the makers of the Eudora email client.

iScribe -- This Is A Nice, Light Email Client That Is Absolutely Free And Fits On A Floppy! Outlook Without The Fat.(This Link Takes You to a Download Page at WebAttack. Scroll Down the Page to Find iScribe.)

Outlook Express Stationery By CloudEight -- One Of The Web's Best Outlook Express Stationery Sites. Over 100 Free Stationery Available Here.

Spam Cop -- Sick of spam? This free service will let you send a public spam report to network administrators. SpamCop routes your complaint accurately and works with network administrators and spammers to turn the tide.

Anti-Spam tools from Net Services -- Net Services helps you to get the best out of your computer and the Internet. We offer software and services designed to make the complex and difficult things easier.

Everything E-Mail -- Teaching Readers That E-mail Is Much More Than Sending A Message. "Lots Of Good Info Here!"

Instant 'Certified' Mail -- SentThere provides on-demand notification for all critical e-mail messages. Send a message and receive a report with pin-point precision when it is opened. In order to use the program , you have to create a free account with their service and can the use the application just like any regular email program, only with the difference that you can tell if your mail actually gets there. SentThere does this by inserting a small, custom coded image into the mail, which will only be displayed when the mail is opened. There is no need for the recipient to confirm the receipt or to do anything else, other than reading your mail. Note: This is an ad supported service.

Free Discussion Board -- Quick Topic: Simply sign up, an email will then provide a link which you can furnish to anyone you would like to include in the group. A nice feature is the notification by email whenever someone posts a message on the site. Quick Topic can also provide a daily email summary of all traffic. See the 'sample' at the site to see just how easy it is!

Stealth Message -- Email Security and Privacy with No Downloads.

Sneakemail -- The original disposable email service, created for email users to regain power over their email from commercial forces and catch them spamming.

Calypso -- Formerly a shareware email client, is now available as an unsupported freeware.

mail4mykids -- Allows kids to safely participate in the global community on the Internet without sacrificing the open, diverse and empowering nature of the medium and its technologies, while enabling parents to respectfully and conveniently manage their child's experience at their personal comfort level. This is a demonstration and test server. You're welcome to visit and try the service out, but by doing so you understand that it may or may not behave as you (or I) expect, and that it may go away at any time. Editor's note: This service has been online for over a year as I write this comment (9-8-03).

Email Alias Addresses:   An alias is simply an address that automatically forwards to another address which you've specified.   An alias has no "In Box" nor can you send mail from an alias address, however it can be very useful on those occasions when you must give an email address online and don't wish to risk compromising your primary address.   When an alias address becomes compromised (by spammers) you can contact the provider and ask them to delete it from their system, simultaneously requesting a new alias giving you a fresh start while keeping your primary address protected from spammers.   I've found several sites that offer free email aliases and have winnowed the list down to two providers who I'm willing to trust.   Since you must provide them with a valid email address, to which the alias will forward, it becomes necessary to trust them, however, any address is subject to becoming compromised by spammers and you should never hesitate to change your primary email address once it becomes compromised.   Don't tolerate spam.   Yes, it's a pain to notify all your friends, and change all your subscriptions but it's well worth the trouble when the alternative is to receive an ever growing amount of unwanted junk email.   When it comes to spam, a firm policy of zero-tolerance is strongly advisable.   Get tough, and complain loudly to your government representatives.   Your efforts can help encourage them to pass laws which can stop spammers in their tracks.   Free alias addresses are available from:
Nite Security.com      &      Speleo.tv

Pegasus Mail -- A free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. A proven product, it has served millions of users since it was released in 1990. It is extremely feature-rich and powerful, yet remains small and fast. On this site, you'll also find the Mercury Mail Transport System which is a free, standards-based mail server solution, providing comprehensive, fast server support for all major Internet e-mail protocols. It is supplied in two versions, one hosted on Windows systems, the other running as a set of NLMs on Novell NetWare file servers.

YAMC -- "Yet another mail client" This lightweight mail client fits on a floppy without eliminating important features and works with multiple servers and message editors. Folder management and the address book are user-friendly.

Kaufman Mail Warrior -- A user-friendly, small (floppy-size) and fast mail client rich with features like a user-friendly interface with a list of features including address book, multiple signatures, multiple accounts, customizable toolbars, drag-n-drop and HTML viewing capabilities. The developer's site is no longer available however the software is still available on in many places of the web. The link give here is on the Freewareweb.com site and is a good link, as I write this, however links of this type are often short lived. If the link fails when you try it, you can easily find another link by typing the program name ("Kaufman Mail Warrior"), in quotes, into the search window at google and I'd also appreciate your letting me know the link has gone bad so I can find a new one to replace it. You can notify me via our site feedback form.

NetMail -- This free email client provides extensive filtering capabilities for incoming correspondence, creating incoming and outgoing message archives.

Visual Mail -- A work in progress. Chuck, webmaster of Freeware Searchsays, "Visual Mail is the best e-mail notification freeware I have discovered yet".

Speedmail -- This application is a mailer, in other words, it can't receive mail, but it's tiny, fast, and free.

ePrompter -- Automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink, Email.com, iName, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, Netscape, POP3, OneBox, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, Switchboard, USA.net and hundreds of other email domains.

AgileMail -- An email sender which is slim, powerful and easy to use.

Private Idaho -- An Internet privacy utility for Windows. It simplifies using e-mail with PGP, anonymous remailers, and nym servers, providing you with more electronic privacy.

FreeLists -- A service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists to all interested. Their lists are all internet and technology-related.

Anybirthday -- A free service that will remind you, by email, of important birthdays.

G-Man's -- How many ways are there to announce incoming E-Mail? Here are seventy one choices.

Beonex Communicator -- An Open Source, free, full-featured web-browser and email/news client.

Pop3 Email: A pop3 email account can be accessed with the email client on your computer ( Outlook Express, Pegasus, Eudora, etc.). Yahoo and Hotmail, for example offer pop3 access to their premium (paid) accounts but if you don't mind having ads tacked onto your email, here are some places where you can acquire a free pop3 account.
FastMail   HotPOP   E-Omninet   SoftHome   MyRealBox   ePOP3.com    digitalme
Tip for free Pop3 accounts:   Let your friends know what's going on by setting up a signature in your ad supported pop3 account, for example:
John Doe
(Forgive the ads. They're the price of this "free" account.)

MailWasher -- A powerful email checker with effective spam elimination.

Sparkingwire.com -- Many sites that offer "free" things want you to give them an email address. Why? So they can send you ads. You can simply decline the freebie, but you also have the option of giving them a valid email address which is nevertheless immune to spam. Sparkingwire addresses are "valid" in that email sent to them isn't bounced, but all email sent to sparkingwire addresses is simply deleted. Nobody ever "receives" it. It's gone forever. You wouldn't want to use this to sign up for information you really do want to receive, but if you simply need an address to get to the "goodies" on a web site, and don't care if you ever hear from them again or not, this is a good solution.
Click on "Enroll Now" to get an address. Enter the name you want and click submit. If the system doesn't tell you that your chosen name is already in use, then you're "good to go". Your spam-proof address will be (the_name_you_used)@sparkingwire.com
Tip: If you open your favorite text editor (like NotePad in windows), type in the new address, and save it to your desktop, or some other convenient location, as "Spam-free address", you'll always be able to find it when you need a safe address to use online.

thatgame -- For centuries chess games have been conducted by mail. Some of those games probably took decades to complete at times in history when it took months for the mail to be delivered from one continent to another. It's only logical then that chess can be played by email, and not surprising that other games can be played by email as well.

Mail This Page -- A utility program for emailing Web Pages or HTML files directly from your Browser. Integrates with Internet Explorer so you can browse, click, and your HTML email appears in Outlook Express. You can also save Web Pages to .eml files, which can be imported into other email clients such as Netscape, Outlook, or Eudora.

Schmaili -- Personally, I hate HTML email, and I especially hate those little smileys, but I know that makes me a member of a minority group, and I want to be fair where possible so I'm listing this. Schmaili allows you to insert funny smiley faces into your emails by a simple mouse click.

MSGTAG -- This free program sends you email notifications when your messages are received and opened by your friends. The eye-catching MSGTAG capsule sits on your desktop or in your system tray, allowing you to enable or disable tagging with one click.

Emergency Email Network -- You can be notified automatically, by email, cellphone, or page, of national or regional emergencies.

YahooPOPs -- This software application emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, IncrediMail, Calypso, etc., to download and send emails from Yahoo accounts.

Hotmail Popper -- A small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client (such as Eudora). Unlike standard mail accounts which allow users to retrieve their e-mail through a POP mail client, Hotmail can normally only be checked on the web, or via Outlook Express. With Hotmail Popper, you can use your favorite POP mail client to retrieve your e-mail from your Hotmail account. In addition, Hotmail Popper allows you to send e-mails through Hotmail's service, as if it was a normal SMTP (outgoing mail) server.

POP3 Scan Mailbox -- A nice utility for anyone who's got several pop3 accounts and would like to simplify checking them.

Habeas -- Offers a service that costs nothing for personal use and can be very useful in protecting you, and others, from unwanted email (spam)

CallCenter -- A free 32-bit, integrated fax, voicemail and data communications application with a simple to use interface providing fax send and receive functionality, basic (single mailbox) answering machine capability, and sophistcated data communications. Note: CallCenter does not support ISDN or Cable Modems.

SpamPrimer -- "Insecticide" for email pests.

K9 -- An email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time.