Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.
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Why are email transfers between mail servers often not encrypted? Why aren't users warned about it?
Users can often choose if they want to access their email provider (such as Gmail) using a secure channel (e.g. using HTTPS).
However, to the best of my knowledge, when it comes to ...
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How do I setup Thunderbird to not store email data locally?
I'd like to use Thunderbird as strictly a frontend interface for Gmail. I don't want any offline availability or anything like that. Is there a way to setup Thunderbird to not store any of the email ...
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How can I find out if a link is “Clean” or “Dirty”?
Today I received a link in an email. Is there any way to be sure it will not lead to a virus before I open it? I googled it and came up with no hits.
EDIT: I have sent a message to the sender ...
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free simple webmail that doesn't require javascript?
Could someone recommend free email service accessible from webmail that doesn't have annoying bloated interface requiring javascript? So far I like gmail because even with js off it still works great ...
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Sending mail from the command line, in an automated way
I want to be able to send a text file through an SMTP server of my ISP (port 25) to an email address on the internet, like my Office email address, or my GMail address. I have a basic Ubuntu 9.04 ...
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Windows 8 mail app unable to pick contact
I'm using Windows 8 x64 RTM, but when I open the mail app and compose an email, then pick contact using the "+" button:
I'm greeted with an error message from people hub:
This app uses email ...
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How to open/browse an mbox file?
Specifically an Apple Mail .mbox file. I'm looking for a way to browse the emails it contains short of just importing it back into Apple Mail and cluttering up my currents emails.
I don't mind having ...
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Do webmail clients render emails with the browser they're loaded in?
I'm generating content rich emails and want to ensure it will look identical on all clients. In order to test Gecko, Webkit, Trident and MS Word I've viewed my email in Firefox, Safari, IE and Outlook ...
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Importing e-mails from thunderbird to outlook 2007?
IS there a better solution then what is offered here ?
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Stop sending mail to myself when choosing Reply All in Outlook
My company has set up each mail account with serveral aliases. My default account is firstL@mycompany.com. I also have:
first.last@mycompany.com
flast@mycompany.com
first_last@mycompany.com
The ...
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How to insert image inline, in email composed with OWA?
When I am composing an email message in OWA 8.1.359.2, how do I insert an image in the body of the email, inline with text (not attachment)?
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Send Email via Gmail from Command Prompt
I've got some backup jobs running weekly and would like to have the log files sent to me automatically via email so I don't have to manually check them.
On a Windows system, is there a tool that I ...
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How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
How can I use my Gmail contacts within Alpine/pine?
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How can my clients easily send me passwords securely? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can clients easily and securely send me passwords?
I often need to get passwords from clients for FTP, SSH, MySQL, Authorize.net, etc.
What's an easy way for them to ...
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Track unanswered mails in Thunderbird
Sometimes you sent people an email and remove the issue from your mind but they never answer it.
Is it possible to identify such mails in an easy way? For example by some kind of search folder?
It ...
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Why is Outlook 2007 resizing images in outgoing and incoming HTML email? How can I fix this?
In my Outlook 2007 client, embedded images in incoming emails appear resized when the message is viewed. The incoming images are resized to 198px wide, despite the original size. If it was larger, it ...
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Bounce mail spam in masses. What to do?
when I got up this morning I found more than 300 emails in my mailbox with numbers growing by the minute. ALL those mails were bounce mails coming from Russia.
Looking at the attached original mails ...
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HTML or rich e-mails do not work with Enigmal in Thunderbird
I would like to be able to receive HTML/rich e-mails, but since I installed Enigmail for Thunderbird, this has not been possible. All e-mails are shown as plain text or not shown at all. This has some ...
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Understanding encryption Keys
I'm really embarrassed to ask this question but its the fact that I don't know anything about encryption. I always avoided it. I don't understand the concept of encryption keys (public key, private ...
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Is there a webmail client which can handle mutiple mail accounts? [closed]
Everyone here must be aware of mail clients which can handle multiple email accounts simultaneously(eg. Thunderbird or Outlook). These are desktop clients which should my installed on the clients ...
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Edit subject line of received email in Thunderbird 3.0
Is there a way to edit the subject line of emails you've received in Thunderbird? I use email a lot for work and it would be a lot easier if I could change subjects to make things easier to find ...
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Thunderbird 3 - leave messages on server option
I just installed a new Thunderbird 3 on a few computers and immediately saw that i could not find the "leave messages on server" option... can anyone point that out to me ?
On my personal pc i ...
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Email address validation tool - recommendations/experience?
I recently came across a tool which will take a list of email addresses, and attempt to cleanse it of the nonsense addresses that people use when wanting to download/sign up for something without ...
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Thunderbird 3: see size of folder?
In Thunderbird 3, how do you see the size of a folder? I.e. the total size of all emails in a certain folder?
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Email service without SSL authentication
Does anyone know an email service that doesn't require the SSL or TLS authentication to send mails throught smtp?
Edit: I don't know almost anythings about smtpm servers; the PC of my customer is ...
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How to setup MX Record?
I am trying to setup a mail server in my PC for my LAN network and I opted for Postfix but the configuration ask me to configure the MX Record, something about DNS configuration but I have no idea of ...
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Easy way to share a changing email group listing?
I have a group of friends and acquaintances that participate in a periodic activity during lunch hours at work (for example getting together to play cards, or a game of soccer, etc). The problem is ...
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download/export emails from webmail
I'm just switching my hosts and I want to move the emails from my accounts too. In order to have my current emails on the new host I want to download/export them and to import at the other host. In ...
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Embedding an Excel sheet in an email
I'm trying to embed part of an Excel sheet into an email. I tried saving the Excel file as a .HTML and then emailing that, but the .HTML doesn't preserve text colors! Anyone have any ideas?
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How do I get a remind for emails I sent that remain unanswered after a period of time?
Here's a simple scenario I can't find any free solutions to:
I am sending an email to a client to which I want to get a response within 3 days.
If I get a response, I don't want to be bothered with ...
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How to situationally show the Envelope icon in the system tray in Outlook?
I'm using Outlook 2010, but I suspect my question applies to all versions. I'm part of some distribution lists that send an email to me every ~10 minutes. I want to receive those emails, but treat ...
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Group emailing with custom greeting
I have to email 50 people about a date change for an event. Normally I'd just BCC them but the request this time is that I make the emails more personalized and have them begin with "Hello First ...
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In Thunderbird, is it possible to block message formatting for some senders?
Some people use big ugly fonts with ugly colors in their mail. However, since these people are colleagues, I'd still like to read their mail, but without hurting my eyes :)
I'd also like to keep html ...
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Emacs email reader with “conversation view” support
I'm a happy long time Wanderlust user. Since I adopted Inbox Zero, however, I feel that archiving read emails does not work very well with Wanderlust and ordinary IMAP folders, because when a new ...
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Read mail attached excel files
Is there an easy way to data read excel files that are attached in emails in Outlook? Im sure this is scriptable, but I dont particularly want to write it.
Is there a program out there that can ...
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Is there a free Mac OS X MS Exchange e-mail notifier?
I have searched high and low for a simple menubar / background notifier for an MS Exchange account, preferably something that could connect to Growl, but no luck. If you know of such a thing, I would ...
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Is it possible to override Outlook's contacts renaming the “From” address?
I'm not sure how better to phrase the question, so I'll try to be clearer in the question. We've got Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010 all being run.
In a SharePoint application we run, emails are sent ...
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Suddenly can't send E-Mails with Apple Mail to Gmail SMTP
I have a weird problem that started just today. I am using Apple Mail on a Leopard machine, connecting to Gmail. Fetching e-mail works just fine. My SMTP settings are also correct. Still, I can't send ...
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How do I enable internet-style quoting in Outlook Web Access?
How can I enable internet-style quoting in Outlook Web Access? I have found several guides on how to enable it in Outlook but not a single one on Outlook Web Access. We are running version 8.1.
I ...
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What's a good frontend to ~500k mails?
So far, I've been using IMAP to read my mail. However, I have about 350k mails by now (accumulated over the last three years) and most email clients are tried don't work with such numbers very well. ...
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Who knows an alternative to thawte's discontinued personal mail certificate service?
Here's the news: Thawte delivered the message about stopping it's free mail certification a week ago (by means of an an unsigned email).
StartSSL offers similar service, as well as CA Cert. But I ...
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Outlook 2007 “Mark as Not Junk” Dialog Confusion
Outlook 2007's "Not Junk" button opens the "Mark as Not Junk" dialog. The dialog works correctly if I keep the "Always trust e-mail from <email address>" option checked. That is, the message is ...
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How can I send an email to a 'Company' (or any other field) by default in Outlook 2010?
When you start typing in a name in the 'To' field in a new email the email address of said person will be automatically selected. However, this only works with the contact's First and Surname, is ...
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Sharing Outlook mail rules
If one user has a set of useful mail rules they want to give to someone else, Outlook doesn't appear to support this properly. Even if the destination mailbox has all the correct folders created with ...
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Outlook 2007: Automatically mark a mail when printed
I am looking for a solution for my Outlook 2007. I don’t know if it is possible, but what I need is, that each time I print a mail, it automatically get marked in some way, either by a flag or a ...
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How to improve the HTML formatting in Evolution mail client
I have a question about viewing HTML emails in the Evolution mail client. Basically, I am receiving some emails that look lovely in Thunderbird but not in Evolution because the HTML rendering of ...
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How do I integrate GPG with alpine?
I have tried a couple of howtos, but they seem to either be too out of date or just plain don't work (don't work for me, at least).
How do I sign and encrypt messages, as well as check integrity of ...
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Word 2003 .DOC formatting lost in HTML Emails
A Word .DOC I've created and would like to send via HTML email loses it's formatting
when sent in an email. With Word DOC open can choose "Save as HTML" and it looks fine as long as viewing from ...
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Multiple email accounts vs. a single email account?
What's everyone's take on this?
Is it better to have multiple accounts for different types of correspondence (i.e. a business address, a family/personal address, an ebay address, a spam address, ...
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Looking for web mail where entire session is SSL
I am looking for a web-UI email service where the entire session is SSL (encrypted). Gmail and Yahoo Mail are both web applications but SSL is only used for the login page, the rest of the session ...
