AutoComplete Addresses
OE now will automatically complete email addresses when you are composing a new message if you so desire.
AutoExpand Folders with New Messages
OE includes a nice new feature to autoexpand folders when new messages have arrived. This addresses the complaint that when you use the Inbox Assistant to direct messages to subfolders, you don't know that new messages are there until you expand the top level folder.
Automatic Dialing for Message Polling
Whenever OE checks for messages, you now can ask it to automatically dial a connection. This permits unattended checking and delivery of Mail messages.
Conversions Tools
Migration tools to OE from Netscape Communicator for both messages and address book entries have been added.
Download Size Limits in News
Through the Newsgroup Filter, OE now will facilitate blocking the downloading of messages that exceed a user specified number of lines.
First News Post No Longer Automatically Opens
The first post in a newsgroup for which you have downloaded new headers no longer automatically opens. Thus, you no longer need to disable Automatically Show Messages in the Preview Pane to avoid downloading an unwanted message.
HTML Formatting Aids
A radio button has been to the formatting toolbar in the Compose Message Window that assists in the formatting messages created with Stationery, particularly those that take advantage of cascading style sheets.
Manage Digital IDs
Through Internet Explorer, you now can export and save the public key portion of your digital ID so that you do not have to download a new one every time that you reformat and reinstall or when you get a new computer. The usability of Digital IDs also has been improved significantly.
Simple MAPI Support
You now may make Outlook Express your simple MAPI mail client so that when you click on Send from inside Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the document that you are working on will pop up inside an Outlook Express mail message as an attachment.
Message Flag for News Threads
While a full blown Watch a Thread feature has not been added yet, threads with new messages now are bolded when you have not chosen to automatically expand message threads and when you are viewing all messages.
Message Source
A Message Source toolbar button has not been added (yet). However, an undocumented keyboard shortcut now allows immediate viewing of the full headers of a message or post.
Reply Bar for HTML Formatted Messages
OE now includes a nice side bar to denote which part of a post is the original text as a reply character in HTML formatted messages.
Search for Keywords in Multiple Mail Messages
A last minute entry now allows searching for keyword phrases across a folder and all of its subfolders.
Stationery
Default stationery files now are provided for user convenience.
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