Archive for the ‘Email’ Category

How to set Thunderbird to leave mail on the server

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 ...

How to install the iPhone applications Mail, Notes, Stocks, Weather, and Maps on your iPod Touch

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, ...

How to set up Mail 3.1 for email

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).

Folders4Gmail updated for latest version of Gmail

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.

More Gmail news: IMAP now available for some accounts

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 ...

Update: Gmail increases storage to 4.2GB

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!

How to set up Thunderbird to send and receive your Gmail

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.

Overview: Mailplane - a Gmail client for OS X (plus beta invites)

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 ...

How to specify a webmail service (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail) as your default email program in OS X

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 ...

How to set up Evolution for email

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.

How to use vMailias to generate unique email addresses for easy sorting and filtering

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 ...

Email Virus Warning: That Greeting Card isn’t from Mom

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 ...

How to set up Thunderbird 2.0 for email

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 ...

Gmail Tip - Selecting Multiple Messages

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!

How to configure the Windows Mail Junk E-mail settings

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.