CodeTwo Outlook Attachment Reminder – new summer gift from CodeTwo

This time the news is especially good for all forgetful Outlook users. CodeTwo’s collection of free tools has just been expanded with another useful add-in – CodeTwo Outlook Attachment Reminder. As the name suggests, the program reminds you about adding attachments to your emails every time you seem to forget about them and click the Send button. It is the First Day of Summer and for this occasion we hope this new freeware will be a nice, practical surprise for all Outlook’s daily users. With this plugin installed, it will be hard to forget about attaching your holiday photos to emails.

How come Outlook ‘knows’ when I have forgotten to add attachment to my e-mail?

CodeTwo Outlook Attachment Reminder is a cutting-edge solution that receives signals transmitted by your subconsciousness and transforms them into binary language… No, no, nothing like that. :) Fortunately the application’s method is not that complex and can be fully controlled by you. The program scans your emails content and for certain phrases, e.g. ’see documents’, ’see enclosed’ recognizes the message as the one that should include an attachment. You can easily modify a list of keywords to suit your needs. Look, it is all nicely explained in this video:

Save your time and embarrassment

Forgetting about adding attachments is a common accident, yet not something to ignore, as it can get troublesome. Sometimes we have to send an important report to our boss, products’ offer to our clients, CV to a dream job’s offer, an essay to our teacher, or other important documents. Once we discover that the message we have sent is actually empty, we look unprofessionally or miss the deadline. It is worth being proactive and equip Outlook with a user-friendly attachment reminder that is totally free and can be downloaded from our website any time. Enjoy!

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The quickest way to make professional email signatures for all employees

Over 100 professional email signatures, banners, labels and disclaimer images have been made accessible for free in a built-in library of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro. What does it mean? It means simply that making beautiful and modern branding of your corporate electronic correspondence is now a matter of a few clicks and can be real fun!

Once you have created your rule in the administration panel of CodeTwo’s program, there are only 3 steps to make a professional email signature that can be automatically attached to all messages sent from your company’s mailboxes. In addition, it can contain names, contact details and even individual photos of each employee pulled from Active Directory.

Step 1: Find a proper action

Go to the Actions tab, click Add in the List of Actions and choose Insert disclaimer/signature. On the right hand side you can see two buttons: Options (a quick, handy function to define a position of your disclaimer – top, bottom, left or right) and the Edit template… . Click on the Edit template… button to open the Template Editor.

Step 2: Check-out the new library full of ideas

The Template Editor that facilitates CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro has everything you need: it simple to use, rich in functions and contains an impressive library of fancy visual propositions prepared for your own use to help you establish your new, stylish e-mail branding. So even if you have to make everything from scratch and your mind goes blank as you do not know what to start with, a whole palette of lovely inspirations is already there. Simply click on the Library tab and go quickly through the list of various designs to select the one that best suits your needs (see some of the examples below).

Step 3: Use Template Editor to make your magic!

Ok, you have chosen something that looks pretty cool, but there are still no names of your company, employees’ phone numbers, e-mail addresses etc. Do not worry. Each of signatures contains Dynamic Fields that pull data, such as names, contact details and even photos from your Active Directory. They are marked with brackets: { } and can be easily edited in HTML, RTF or Plain Text preview. See below:

And that is it! The program will automatically add a customized signature to all e-mails sent by your company members specified in the Conditions tab. In the latest 1.2. version,  you can not only pull contact details kept in Active Directory to your signatures, but even add senders’ photographs.

If want to know more about creating and modifying your email signatures, there is an extensive knowledge base available on CodeTwo’s website, in user’s manual and other blog posts.

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New version of CodeTwo Attach Unblocker released!

If you are a Microsoft Outlook user you probably know a common problem with blocked attachments that you can neither open, nor save to your hdd.. The most common files of this type are: .exe, .bat, .asp, .url, gadget., .js, .reg etc. Outlook blocks these files automatically due to the security reasons and Microsoft’s strategy aiming to protect Outlook users from virus attacks. Nevertheless, this method is not always convenient and pretty often becomes unacceptable for some people. Unblocking disabled attachments is not an easy thing to do. There are numerous questions in this matter regularly posted by irritated users on social forums and IT blogs. So to save your time spent on digging in manuals and in advanced settings of the program, CodeTwo has created a quick and friendly application that immediately brings you back a control of all attachments coming to your inbox. The tool is called CodeTwo Attach Unblocker and is totally free of charge. The program has been successfully serving Outlook users for the last four years. Now we are happy to show you this handy add-on once again, as it has been improved.

What is new in CodeTwo Attach Unblocker 1.2.4?

Apart from a completely new, ‘refreshed’ user interface, the program is now independent from Outlook and can be launched and running even when Outlook is offline. The installation file automatically checks bit version of your Microsoft Outlook and installs a proper version. We have also eliminated a problem with Windows 2000 installation error.

To define the attachments types that you wish not to be blocked by Outlook anymore, you just need to create your own list by entering file extensions in a proper field (see a picture below). After restarting Outlook all attachments from your list will no longer be blocked and you will be able to open, save or forward them.

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What’s new in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro?

Exchange Rules PROThe recent CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro update has delivered plenty of new features to you. Some of the old ones, on the other hand, have been considerably extended or improved. In our forthcoming blog entries we will cover the hottest changes and novelties applied to version 1.2. We hope that you will find some time to read them and express your opinion about what we have recently implemented. As we develop our applications mostly bearing in mind YOUR NEEDS, would love to hear what your impressions are.

What exactly has the latest version of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro brought to you? To mention just the most important features…

  • Adding Active Directory photos to signatures/disclaimers – thanks to the new dynamic {Photo} placeholder in the Template Editor, it is finally possible to compose signature templates containing the photographs of the senders that are pulled directly from Active Directory.
    Learn more about Active Directory placeholders in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro…
  • Extended autoresponder feature -  your autoresponder rules can now be even more complex than before thanks to new modes added to the auto-reply template, e.g. autorespond as reply, autorepond as attachment, splitting recipients into TO, CC, BCC and many more. See video…
  • Strip/dump attachments and attachment filter – you can now reject or automatically archive attachments found in messages or create other rules with conditions based on the size or type of attachments found in emails.
    Learn more about this feature…
  • Rewrite Sender’s address – thanks to this new action you will be able to easily rewrite email addresses of given senders or distribution groups. For instance, the whole Technical Support Department in your company can now send messages from one specified email alias, e.g. support@example.com.
    Learn more about this action…
  • New Remote Access options – it is now possible to manage access rights to given rules settings. You can now decide which Active Directory users can view, edit or delete each rule remotely. This will give you the guarantee that the most important settings will stay unharmed, while e.g. the Marketing guys from your company are changing their promo banners or footers.
    Learn more about this feature…
  • Richer signature/disclaimer and picture libraries – composing your company signatures or promo footers with CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro is now even easier than before, since our graphic designers have prepared more ready-to-use pictures and templates for you. Feel free to use them in your signature patterns and message themes.
    Learn more about using Template Library in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro…

More information on above mentioned features are still to come on CodeTwo Blog within a couple of days. See you soon then!

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CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro – major update

We have just released an updated version of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro 1.2.0.10. The program has a lot of new features that have been added to meet our users’ expectations. Some minor fixes have also been introduced. Below you can see what’s new in this release of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro.

  • 4 new rules and 10 new signature templates for you to use right away;
  • Active Directory photos in signatures added with one click;
  • New email autoreply capabilities (watch a video);
  • Better email signature positioning in emails sent from mobile devices;
  • Attachment filter – you can now filter email attachments in Exchange mail;
  • Strip/dump attachments feature – lets you delete and/or save Exchange email attachments;
  • Rewrite sender’s address feature – enables you to send an email from one address but your recipients receive it as if it was sent from a different address;
  • New loop protection options for email auto-responders;
  • Image library and new signature templates in a signature editor.
  • and more…

See the entire version history list for CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro 1.2.0.10.

The update is free of charge for all Exchange Rules Pro users. To update CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro, download and run the installer on your Exchange Server. The new version will be installed on top of the old one. You might be asked to restart your server afterwards.

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New premises for CodeTwo Marketing and Web Development

Our Marketing and Web Development Departments have expanded so much that we had to get a bigger office. And so did happen. :) This week we moved to our new premises that is located just across the road from our headquarters. Sadly we are now slightly separated from the rest of the team, but the good thing is that we can enjoy a beautiful view of the Giants Mountains and have a large space for making new ideas. After a few hours of re-locating and a hard physical work…


… we could finally arrange furniture and computers and find our feet in the new specious office. And even though the rest of our work-mates may get a little bit jealous, we just have to show you the view from our windows…

We want to stress however that we are not sitting with our heads in the clouds! ;)

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Testimonials Contest: 6 Winners Selected!

6 winners selected!Here we are again with great news for some of you. Our contest has just come to the end and we can finally announce the winners.

We are happy to inform you that The Main Prize ($1000) goes to:

Adam Ithiel (Lazy Bear iT Division)

Additional prizes ($200 each) will be sent to:

Congratulations guys! We will contact you shortly and inform you about further steps.

Here’s the video showing the draw itself:

We would like to thank all of you for the great opinions you shared with us. Your testimonials are absolutely amazing. We have received over 130 testimonials from all over the world, which all together are a HUGE positive reinforcement for us. During the past two months we followed every single entry with sheer excitement and were deeply surprised how many of you decided to share your opinion with us. It only shows that we have the most kind-hearted and loyal users across the globe and that our software is meeting their expectations. Thank you guys!

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Last chance to win $1000 in CodeTwo contest!

Testimonials contestThere are only less than two days left till the end of our testimonials contest. If  you want to give yourself a chance to win $1000 or additional prizes, you need to hurry. On Friday morning, we will collect all entries to a glass bowl and randomly select 6 lucky guys who will get the prizes. There are over 120 opinions from all over the world in the contest so far, but still we would love to see your testimonial among them. What do you have to do to take part?

The rules are very simple. To join the contest you need to submit a comment regarding any of our programs, either free or commercial, with a photo of you via the form on www.codewto.com/testimonials. The opinion must be between 200-500 characters long and has to express your feelings about using our software. Every comment is published on our website after it is accepted by the administrator. Please note that you need to submit a photograph showing your face, not your company logo – it’s very important.

Go to www.codetwo.com/testimonials and join the contest now. On Friday afternoon (May 13, 2011) we will publish the results here on our blog and on the contest page.

Good luck and see you soon!

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National holiday

On May 3, 2011 we are not available due to National Holiday in Poland. We will respond to all your inquiries on Wednesday. We are sorry for any inconveniences.

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UsingTemplate Editor’s status bar to work easily with complex and fancy e-mail signatures

Hi Exchange admins! Let’s focus today on the next feature of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro which definitely deserves your attention – the status bar in your Template Editor. As you already know, CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro is an e-mail management software, providing a sophisticated Template Editor that allows you to create beautiful and stylish e-mail signatures, banners and footers. Bearing in mind how important it is to maintain a professional look of your brand identity, the application has been equipped with highly advanced edit features that let you efficiently and pleasantly work even with the very complex signature layouts.

See below an exemplary e-mail signature, imported from the built-in signatures library of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro.

As you can see, all the top elements of the signature are placed in the table. It is obviously a preview table that will not be visible in a message (unless you set a border size above 0). You can identify at the first sight, some of the most popular edit functions displayed in the Template Editor’s ribbon. So if you want to modify your signature details, such as a phone number, e-mail address or web page name, you might highlight them like in the image below:

The next thing you are most likely to do, is to go to the top ribbon’s section called Font and select a proper font type, size, colors etc. Will it work this way? Yes, it certainly will work in this case, but how about modifying the table’s cell or row? You will not do it analogically, because the visible ribbon’s settings do not apply to the HTML elements, such as row, cell or a whole table. If, for example, you want to change a background color of the chosen single cell, you should now look at the bottom bar of the editor. It is more functional that you may expect as it displays the selected HTML elements of the table, e.g. <BODY>, <TABLE>, <TR> or <TD>. See in the picture below, the whole cell is being selected, so the <TD> element is being highlighted in the bottom status bar.

Now you can access a full palette of options and modify the selected element according to your needs. You just need to use the Properties section that appears on the right hand side. Notice that the Properties table also informs you what HTML element has been tagged (see the name next to the Tag cell in the second column of the table). Using the Properties options, you can easily change a background color of the selected cell (let’s select a blue color for the presented cell) or go to the Style window to work with more advanced settings of the cell’s fonts, background and border. For the exemplary e-mail signature, the cell’s border-style is being now selected as grooved, thick and green. See below:

This is what it looks like after the settings have been applied:

As you can see, each HTML element of your signature or footer can be modified within a few clicks. This is all you need to know about the status bar. Just remember that this feature is always at your fingertips to streamline your design work when making complex e-mail signatures.

If you want to find out more about Template Editor’s functions, see our user’s manual. If you do not have a program yet and wonder if it suits your company’s needs, go to the program’s information page and see all its main features.

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