Users will be able to send and retrieve messages from their hotmail account, and manage incoming messages as if they came from a normal POP account. Schedules Scheduling connections and other forms of mail-related actions will be another high point of Outlook Express 5.0. The new version will allow users to schedule such actions as checking mail, sending mail, executing AppleScripts, deleting mail, and checking news, sources added. The user can specify certain times to perform these actions or make them repeat after certain time intervals. Additional options will allow scheduled actions to execute when the user launches or quits Outlook Express.
Users can also create schedule-actions to be run manually.
Mailing List Manager With e-mail mailing lists becoming more popular, especially for Macintosh users, the folks at Microsoft have also built a handy Mailing List Manager right into Outlook Express. The new management software allows the user to color-code and sort messages from each of their mailing lists. Additionally, users will be able to add a predefined subject prefix to each mailing list message and override the default reply behavior set by the mailing list. But according to sources, AOL granted Claris permission to implement this feature, and since then, has denied others permission to do the same. There is a lot to love, but it still remains to be seen how stable the final version of Outlook Express will be, and how much RAM it will consume.