smileys for OE (I know, I know !)

[spoon2001]

I know, I know, I know. Outlook Express blows. Graphical smileys and
emoticons blow.

But some of my correspondents enjoy them. Hey, even Thunderbird has them
built in! But for now I'm wedded to OE.

With that out of the way, does anyone know of:
(1) an Outlook Express add-on that makes it easy to insert graphical smileys
(toolbar button, drop down menu of graphical smileys) - adware, spyware,
hijackware FREE??? (that's critical).

(2) a free collection of graphical smileys I can insert in HTML email
manually, using the very cumbersome OE method for embedding graphics in an
email?

 

[mike555]

I know, I know, I know. Outlook Express blows. Graphical smileys and
emoticons blow.

But some of my correspondents enjoy them. Hey, even Thunderbird has them
built in! But for now I'm wedded to OE.

With that out of the way, does anyone know of:
(1) an Outlook Express add-on that makes it easy to insert graphical smileys
(toolbar button, drop down menu of graphical smileys) - adware, spyware,
hijackware FREE??? (that's critical).

(2) a free collection of graphical smileys I can insert in HTML email
manually, using the very cumbersome OE method for embedding graphics in an
email?

==== you can make up a "Gif " folder of some from these sites ...
http://www.gifanimations.com/index.jsp
http://www.emoticons4u.com/ and manually insert them =======

 

[Sparx]

Hi !

Thunderbird inserts the text representation of the smiley ( in
characters ). Other TB users and users of OE-QuoteFix are then shown the
appropriate smiley. It does not embed pictures unless a user expressly
inserts an image.

Of course, this is default behaviour I'm talking about and there is an
extension available for TB to allow a user to easily embed a smiley or
graphic of choice in the message. It's called Mailtagger and is
avaialable from http://mailtagger.mozdev.org/

However, for your needs in OE, a program which does embed the smiley as
a picture in Outlook Express is SmaileyXP www.xertia.tk
I have used this earlier before I switched to TB myself


The author says that it can be considered to be the freeware option to
the popular Schmaili www.schmaili.com

Another shareware product, although untested by me is PostSmile
available @ www.postsmile.com

Hope this helps...
--
Regards,
Sparx

Composed on: 19 Sep 05 @ 20:05 IST
I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.6 and GnuPG v 1.4.2 + Enigmail 0.92.1

 

[kb5qxr]

Try www.Incredimail.com They have a free version that gives you
plenty of features. It`s setup almost identical to OE, and will import
your address book ect. for you. The free version will give you
everything OE does...........

 

[Kittie Spit]

I've used the freeware vers. of Incredimail as well. Very nice, etc.,
etc., but it has annoying adverts, which can chew up CPU if you're on
an older machine.

 

[jmatt]

spoon2001, here are some links that may help.

How to use emoticons in a forum message & How to use smileys in Outlook
Express
http://www.websmileys.com/
http://www.wackyb.co.nz/menu/Outlook_Express/

Free clipart
http://www.clip-art.com/
http://www.free-graphics.com/
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
http://www.coolarchive.com/
http://www.1clipart.com/
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us

 

[jmatt]

And a couple of other ways.

Free Personalized Mailer
http://www.utilstore.com/mercury/emailer.htm
eMailer is free personalized mailer that can be used as a powerful
marketing tool to send personalized targeted mails. eMailer is a
freeware easy mailer utility that is free for personal or commercial
purpose. eMailer helps you to reach out to your customers by sending
targeted mails, with each recipient receiving a personalized copy of
the mail.
eMailer, the free personalized mailer, is brought to you by the
freeware developer Mercury.

Easy Message Express
http://www.easymessage.net/brands/em/setup.exe
A unified instant messenger that provides connectivity for ICQ, MSN,
Yahoo, and AOL from a single interface. Features include support for
multiple accounts, MSN style notification windows, chat emoticons, rich
text formatting, enriched online status, POP3 mail notifications,
typing notifications, hyperlink support and more. For Windows
95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.