E-mail was one of the first applications to use what became the Internet. Modern email systems are based on a "store-and-forward" model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Users only need to connect to an email server when they want to send and/or receive messages. It ...
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Good alternative to Gmail [closed]
With the new Privacy changes to Gmail I feel like it's time to jump ship and change my email provider. The question is, where should I go? As silly as it is, I have been using Gmail for about 8 years ...
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How to send myself an email every 30 min as a reminder
I'm looking for an app (web or not) that will send me an email every 30 min until I stop it.
Why?
When I'm working on a special type of support case, I need to update my clients every 30 min. So, if ...
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How can I best manage my email when I use multiple computers?
I use multiple computers through the day, some at work, some personal.
I also presently use Outlook 2010 to receive most of my email, and a variety of webmail interfaces for the rest. For my ...
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.pst displays emails from 2008-2009 only
I recently copied a couple .pst files to a hard disk for backup purposes. When I tried to get them back in another computer, Outlook 2007 only shows emails from 2008 and 2009, even it if has emails ...
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How can I see the plain text version of a MIME email?
I'm building an App that will send HTML emails. I compose MIME formatted email. I want to test both versions of the content (Html and Plain text) : Is there a way to see the plain/text version of the ...
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Is it possible to backward search through the `Alpine` inbox?
I am using Alpine (formerly Pine) for email. I can search for words in the inbox using w and the keyword. However this searches from the oldest to the newest items which is not always efficient when ...
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Security difference between webmail access and desktop email client?
Is there a difference in privacy and security between webmail access and desktop email clients? Is one inherently more secure than the other? Is it more secure to use an email service that does not ...
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Outlook 2007 Archive Behavior with Exchange 2007
I didn't make it clear enough to an end user with a 4 GB mailbox how the archive feature works. He didn't know that it was going to create a second set of folders that he would have to look through. ...
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How would you monitor emails within your network?
How would you monitor Emails which is over HTTPS connection within your network. I know there are some steps involved before the connection is established and the communication actually starts, so how ...
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Open-source email software for GNU/Linux that can remind about sent, but not replied to emails
I would like to have an email client which reminds me about an email, that I sent say a week ago, but to which I have not got a response yet.
My question is similar to this one, but the difference is ...
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How to Normalize Sender Names in Outlook
For the same person I usually have a few different names and mail addresses as the from and to fields of my mails. For example:
John Doe
John Doe (john.doe@googlemail.com)
John Doe ...
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Error starting Phoenix for Apache James?
I can get the run.bat in the \james-2.3.2\bin file to run, but when I try to start phoenix.sh I get this:
Jacob@Jacob /c/program files/apache software foundation/james-2.3.2/bin
$ phoenix.sh start
...
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Software for making a backup of a offline harddisk
As a computer technician, I'm allways on the search for software which can make my work a little faster and more efficient.
Does anyone know software to make a backup of a mounted drive (as in ...
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How to telnet login to email server as administrator?
There is a administrator interface for our webmail, where we supply our administrator name and password. In there we can see user information and system log etc., but it only shows very limited ...
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How to decode email header content
When open up the header or read the raw source of an email, I see header-vales in, for example, X-Cm-Senderinfo or Thread-index to be strings of encoded text. I though they are base64 but I tried ...
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Change Adobe Reader's default program for e-mail links
When I click an e-mail address in Adobe Reader X, an Outlook e-mail window opens, even though Thunderbird is my standard e-mail client and assigned to the mailto: protocol.
How can I make Adobe ...
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Can I have a webhost with one company and an E-Mail host with another? [migrated]
I was wondering if it was possible to use one company (and respective name servers) for email hosting, and another (and NS) for the web hosting?
My email host mentions changing all the NS records for ...
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How to send email to only of one the recipient?
Is there a way to send email where receiver sees multiple recipient email addresses includes his, but in fact only send to one receiver himself?
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outlook 2007 cant open eml file
im trying to open a test.eml file using the following command although I get "the operation failed. An object could not be found" error message now. This was working before although it doesnt now! ...
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How can I export my old emails from a private server to Gmail servers?
Let's suposse I have a lot of emails in a private email server. Organized in folders, subfolders, tags, etc.
I want to migrate all this emails (with their current organization) to a new email domain ...
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Can receive email but not send
I have this strange problem that has been plaguing me for almost a month. We have a small office (less than 20 users) that use Charter as an ISP - cable modem. We also have an external host, ...
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Emails popping up back in Inbox after moving them or deleting them
I am using Outlook 2010 and this problem popped up just a couple of days ago.
When I go and delete emails or move some others to my folders,the next time I go to look at my email, all the emails are ...
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How can I edit RSS feed address/URL in Apple Mail?
I would like to know how I can easily edit / modify / change the address of an RSS feed URL / address in Apple Mail? I am on OS X 10.6.8, Mail 4.5.
I found info on how to use terminal to export the ...
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How is mail actually sent when I use the Linux “mail” command?
What email account is used to send an email when using the mail command from the linux terminal as in:
echo "Body of email" | mail -s "Subject" abc@def.com
If the emails are not being sent, does ...
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IMAP client that can mute threads like gmail lets you?
Are there any IMAP clients that run on OSX that will let you hide replies to a thread unless I'm in the TO or CC headers?
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Set php mail() function to use smtp authentication
So, how can I set php's mail() function to use smtp authentication?
I have a web server and then an mail server. All company's email, incoming or outgoing, passes through the mail server and I was ...
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Outlook, S/MIME, IMAP and Cert Expiration
How does outlook handle encrypted IMAP-Mails after the certificate/key the mail has been encrypted with expires?
To still read the e-mail, that is encrypted on the IMAP-Server, I would need the ...
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Exchange cannot deliver emails to my domain
I have a (non-Exchange) mail server which works fine.
But some people cannot send us emails when they use Exchange.
We don't see any connection attempt to our mail server from their SMTP server.
I ...
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Can't send mail because certificate has expired [closed]
I run Snow Leopard and the mail app tells me that my certificate has expired.
I can't send an email without typing in a password. I don't think I have changed anything.
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Thunderbird removes leading spaces before XML/HTML tags, how can I disable that feature?
The following is especially annoying on XML / HTML / XSL / etc user groups and mailing lists. When I create a new plain-text message and type the following message in Thunderbird 9.0.1:
Check this ...
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How to view Gmail using VM in Emacs via Imap?
I followed instructions at here and now I get the following error when I ran vm:
vm-imap-protocol-error: IMAP protocol error: "unexpected char (10)"
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
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Sequential email send in Thunderbird like one can do in Outlook?
I tried to queue up a bunch of emails with large file attachments in Thunderbird 9 and it immediately tried to send each one when I clicked send. The large amount of simultaneous emails choked my SMTP ...
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“No Internet Access” But Still Can Access Internet?
This is weird because while status bar of wireless connection tells me that it still identifies hotspot (Not Available) and internet is not accessible, my email client (Windows Live Mail) freely pulls ...
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What Are the Risks of Storing a “Personal” Email Password Password Locally?
I sometimes use MS Outlook 2010 on my home PC to check my personal Hotmail, but I have to type my password in every time I connect. What risks would I face if I allowed MS Outlook to memorize my ...
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From address different from the SMTP address sent through Outlook 2007
I have a web-only-based email address I want to use when writing from Outlook 2007 but the web-based email address doesn't allow SMTP connections.
In Outlook, I can configure an account that has my ...
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Execute command/script after file transfer
I've configured a server (Ubuntu) with OpenSSH for file transfer via sFTP. The requirement is that after a file transfer, a mail is sent confirming the file was received by the system. How would I do ...
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How reliable is the “from” header in an email?
When I get an email from john@example.com, how certain can I be that it is actually from him?
If the SMTP "from" header is john@example.com it is possible that it could be spoofed. Can DKIM, SPF, or ...
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Living outside the cloud [closed]
[EDIT - to simplify and focus the question]
I want to reduce dependencies on cloud solutions for email, feed reading, backup, file sharing, etc. What desktop apps (or locally-hosted web apps) can ...
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Recover emails from an unfinished archiving process in Outlook
A friend of mine tried to archive his emails in Outlook and now he can't find them anymore. He had about 18 GB of emails in his inbox.
Basically, he started the archiving process, forgot about it and ...
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How do I get Thunderbird to open an ICS attachment directly in Lightning's calendar?
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1 with Lightning 1.1.1. Is there an easier way to import an ICS file attached to an email than saving it to disk, then in Calendar going to File --> Open?
If I ...
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sendmail command not working, hudge delay, no errors, no delivery [closed]
I've set up sendmail on the virtual host I rent (Ubuntu 10.10 Linux 2.6.35-22-server) and I can't get it to work, or even see any error messages to give me a clue of why it isn't working.
The only ...
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How to automatically upload e-mail attachments
When I have an e-mail with an attachment that exceeds usual limits (say 10 Mb),
I upload the file to a private remote FTP server (using a simple homemade PHP upload tool),
and I add the link to my ...
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Wrong “From” Email Address when Replying & Forwarding in Outlook 2010 & Saves in wrong Sent folder
Software - MS Outlook 2010
Also - I use a 3rd party Recruiting CRM application built on MS Framework so highly compatible, with an Outlook Add-in component for capturing emails I receive from anyone ...
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What is the most secure free messaging system? [closed]
I wish to communicate in a secure form. Is there a free software out there that could transmit messages with security comparable to blackberry? Please don't say gmail as google regularly gives data to ...
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How to change a POP account to IMAP in Outlook or Windows Live Mail?
I have some e-mails accounts sets to POP and now we have the IMAP service, so we would like to change to IMAP because of the benefits that it comes with it.
But I'm trying to do that in Outlook ...
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How can cemail.vol be copied from Windows Mobile? [closed]
Windows mobile locks the "cemail.vol" file. It stores SMS messages. How can this file be copied to somewhere else? I need to back it up from the Windows Mobile device.
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Is This Forged And Spoofy Email? [closed]
The email from Agent@Adobe.com claims to be from Adobe. After analyzing its source i have not found anything suspicious, only ivest8 and this IP: 98.143.35.69.
While invest8 shows a lot in Google, i ...
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Rule to move all mails from the users of a Distribution List to a Folder
We are using Outlook 2007, and I wanted to create a rule that would move all the emails coming from any of the users that are a part of a specific Distribution List to a specific folder.
I have tried ...
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2answers
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Configure Outlook to defer message delivery until a specific time
Is it possible to configure Outlook 2010 to defer the delivery of all messages until a specific time of day?
I know that it's possible to create a rule for outbound messages that will defer delivery ...
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How to search emails by matching header fields against regex “in” Thunderbird?
How to search emails by header fields such as Subject, Sender, Receipt, against regex? The emails are fetched and read with Thunderbird. But the searching doesn't need to occur through Thunderbird ...
