Archive for the ‘Email’ Category
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
This very brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to set Thunderbird to leave mail on the server. Leaving your mail on the server can be helpful if you use Thunderbird on a portable USB drive to check your email while away from your main computer. That way when ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Update - May 1st 2008: The original method I outlined in this tutorial no longer works. But don't worry, I've figured out a new one! What I'm getting at is that this tutorial has been completely re-written.
This tutorial will guide you through installing the iPhone apps Apple MobileMail, ...
Posted in Email, iPod/iPhone | 32 Comments »
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
This tutorial will guide you through setting up Mail 3.1 - the email program included with OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Posted in Email, Mac | 4 Comments »
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
One of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts is Folders4Gmail - and it was updated today to work with the latest version of Gmail. Once again my Gmail filters are folders.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It appears as though Google has decided to enable IMAP for some Gmail (and Google Apps for Your Domain) accounts. As it happens, all of my Google Apps for Your Domain accounts now have IMAP enabled, so I'm playing around with the settings and changes now.
IMAP on Gmail is ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Update: as a couple of folks have pointed out, Google has once again increased the storage size of Gmail to 4.23GB, just a day or two after the increase to 3.6GB.
Thanks Google!
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
This is a requested tutorial for Marcelo. It will take you through the steps to set up Gmail using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Mailplane is a stand-alone Gmail client for OS X. Besides including all of the great features of Gmail, Mailplane adds extras such as built-in drag-and-drop attachments, quick import from iPhoto and iTunes, Growl notifications when you get new messages and much more.
Update: All 5 of my invites have been given ...
Posted in Email, Mac, Reviews | 7 Comments »
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
I recently stumbled across a fantastic little program that allows you to specify a webmail service (like Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail etc) as your default email program. When you click on a mailto: link, instead of Mail opening, your specified webmail service will launch in your default browser, with the ...
Posted in Email, Mac | 5 Comments »
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
This tutorial will guide you in setting up Evolution 2.1.x (the version included in Ubuntu 7.04 - known as "Feisty Fawn") for the first time. Though the screenshots are from Ubuntu, the steps are virtually identical if you're using another version of Linux.
Posted in Email, Linux | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
vMailias is a small OS X app that helps you create unique redundant email addresses for web site registrations. Tracking which email address was used for which web site also makes it easy to set up rules to guide email from different web sites into their own folders, and to ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
From this Washington Post article:
Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they're concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
In most cases, the subject line informs recipients that they've ...
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
This tutorial will guide you in setting up Thunderbird 2.0.x for the first time. Though the screenshots are from OS X, the steps are virtually identical if you're running Windows or Linux. The only difference is when you install in Windows you'll run the .exe and click Next a few ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Here's one I just learned the other day -
If you need to select a series of messages in Gmail, click the first one ..
hold down the Shift key and select the last one ..
Ta-da!
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
The Outlook Express replacement for Vista - Windows Mail - includes a built in spam filter that Microsoft has called Junk E-mail. This brief tutorial will explain the various settings so that you can customize Windows Mail to your liking.
Posted in Email, Windows | 3 Comments »
