Questions tagged [email]
Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.
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How to tell from email header if sender address is legitimate
I received an email from [email protected] claiming that I have got an interview for Assistance Manager (exact words were - Result of your application for the position of assistant manager . ...
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Keyboard/mouse shortcut for Inserting signature in Outlook 2003?
Is there a quick keyboard or mouse shortcut to insert your signature in a reply email in Outlook 2003 SP3?
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How do I set up a rule to trigger for emails marked as "complete"?
Related question, but for Outlook 2007: How do I create a rule that moves an email to another file after it is marked complete?
There is a feature of Outlook 2011 which lets you mark flag a message ...
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Filtering Data Excel Data from Survey to Obtain E-mails
Over the summer we conducted a survey for a number of students to indicate their interest in a number of clubs. The way the responses were scanned in gave us a column for each club and a '1' in each ...
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Is there a way to read Hotmail mail with Thunderbird without using the WebMail pluging?
Some sites tell me Hotmail has POP3 access now, but with Thunderbird it doesn't seem to work. The only solution (which I didn't test yet) is a WebMail plugin that helps Thunderbird to read data from ...
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Cannot connect Office 365 email with Outlook 2010
I have an email address of the form [email protected] that I am accessing through this site. I had connected my email to Outlook 2010 and it was working fine. Recently, it started requesting ...
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Why is my own e-mail address not listed in the To field?
I have received a suspicious e-mail. I am not affiliated with the company mentioned in the e-mail body, or the signer. However, I have been using the app they mention in the e-mail. They are inviting ...
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When I send someone a file, are the details (Date created / Date modified / Owner / Computer) sent as well (by default)?
I have created a file asd.asd:
I want to know when I email this file directly to other people, what kind of information (Date created / Date modified / Owner / Computer) will be exposed.
I am aware ...
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Tips to give to end users to avoid having their online email (Gmail, Hotmail, etc) being hacked? [closed]
I'm seeing a lot of online email accounts being hacked lately. I'm guessing someone hacks into the account and then accesses to send the spam I'm getting. (It's happened to 2 friends and one customer ...
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Why do (Russian) characters in some received emails change when reading in David InfoCenter?
I'm using David InfoCenter as email software, and I have troubles with some of my emails in Russian. It's only a few letters, in some emails (sent from different people), like for example the "R" ("Р" ...
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In Outlook 2016 for Mac, how do I find all emails containing either "A" OR "B" anywhere within them?
I've found a bunch of similar questions, but none that seems to address my specific situation well enough to solve it. There doesn't seem to be an "or" search operator available in Outlook 2016 for ...
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How can I automatically edit an email before auto-forwarding it?
Is there a way to automatically edit emails before forwarding them?
I'm getting email notifications from Foursquare that I want to send to my phone as text messages. I know how to send messages to my ...
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Emulate Stack Overflow's inline code span formatting in Microsoft Outlook
Stack Overflow's inline code span formatting is a useful tool for communicating text that includes code snippets or keywords. I find it easier on the eyes than bold, _ underline _ or italics.
I would ...
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Outlook 2010: Can you search a shared mailbox and include subfolders?
I am using Outlook 2010, but I am unable to find a way to search through all the sub-folders of a shared mailbox. I believe this may be a limitation of the software, but I sincerely hope I am wrong.
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How to rebuild missing trash bin (and possible other system) folder(s) in Mozilla Thunderbird
Frequent related problems :
I can't delete any message in Mozilla Thunderbird
The trash bin in Thunderbird is gone missing, causing the impossibility to delete any message
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Printer unable to use Gmail SMTP server
I've been following this Google Apps support page to be able to set up scan-to-email using the Gmail SMTP server. The printer is a Samsung CLX-6260 FW.
I've configured it with the following ...
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Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: Email is too large, limit size to less than 20 MB
I use email with outlook 2013 and imap to my godaddy webmail which is unlimited.
I keep getting this error - ""Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: Email is too large, limit size to ...
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keyboard shortcut to send a file as mail attachment
Is there any shortcut or way to create a shortcut to attach selected file as mail attachment in Outlook. Now, I've to right click the selected file and use "Send To-->Mail Recipient" option. A ...
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How to delete a large block of emails in outlook 2016 / outlook 365
I have taken over from a colleague the monitoring of a large inbox hosted on outlook 365. the inbox has accumulated about 100,000 emails. mostly the messages are from two monitoring accounts that ...
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Why doesn't POP3 synchronize read status and folders?
Does anybody know why POP3 doesn't synchronize the read status and the folder-categorization of emails?
And if there's no good reason for that: why hasn't POP3 been changed yet?
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How to make thunderbird automatically encrypt emails if possible?
When I start to compose a new email in Thunderbird, I want it to automatically enable the Encrypt button after I type a recipient's email address into the To field, if I have that recipient's PGP key ...
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How Do I Grant Full Access to an Office 365 mailbox without it also loading into Outlook?
As the SysAdmin, I sometimes need to grant myself access to someone's mailbox in Office 365. It's usually a temporary thing, just to accomplish a task or two, but sometimes it's somewhat long term.
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Postfix issue : iptables rules and can't receive email from outside
My Postfix server was working fine until last days but now, I can't receive emails from outside (I mean with an email of different domain name like gmail for example). I must make notice that I can ...
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How can I delete an email address from Outlook's email history?
When I type an email address in Outlook 2007 it keeps suggesting addresses that no longer are relevant for me. How can I delete an address that appears in the suggestion list?
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Outlook Categories Not Appearing in Drop Down Menu
This is the issue with Outlook categories drop down menu(in the picture). Problem is that not all categories are appearing. I'm assuming that drop down has a fix number of categories that it can ...
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Thunderbird saves multiple local copies of emails that are tagged with multiple gmail labels
I have Thunderbird v. 68.5.0 set up with a gmail-account via IMAP.
Unlike claimed here thunderbird-and-gmail, in my case Thunderbird saves an email multiple times if that email has multiple labels ...
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VBA Script to Dynamically Change Subject Line on Incoming Emails for Outlook 2013
I have looked at this Outlook script example, which is similar and a great start for me: Outlook Script to edit subject
However, I am in need to change incoming message subject lines on arrival in a ...
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apple mail don't get my mail after a while
I use Apple Mail for my default email reader and it works fine (I set IMAP for my email reader setting) but from a week ago it's stopped getting my mail. I still can send mail to other people but can'...
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Outlook: Automatically set from address when replying
I have a dozen forwarders sending into a gmail account, I have outlook setup using imap but when I reply I don't want it sending from the Gmail address, instead I want it to come from one of the ...
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Store personal certificates encrypted in Windows?
I recently got my self an email S/MIME signing/encrypting certificate. I installed this on my Windows machine, which, obviously, required me to enter the password I used to encrypt the certificate, ...
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Is there a way to recover deleted emails from an Outlook PST file?
A customer has deleted emails from his Junk Email folder, and now we have been asked to recover them from the pst data file.
Is this possible and how to go about it?
Tried using the advice at http://...
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Understanding nuances of Outlook 2010 with IMAP email
This question isn't so much a how-to related to Outlook and IMAP but rather related to nuances of Outlook when doing IMAP email.
In Outlook 2010 we have just a single account set up via IMAP. No ...
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Detect if e-mail has been read by the recipient?
How do I know if the e-mail I sent someone has been read already by him / her. If I heard it correctly, it's called a read receipt. How do I use or implement something like that?
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How do I stop Gmail from opening mailto links in Chrome?
I followed the instructions to set Gmail as my default email client by inserting this:
In address bar of same tab, type/paste this & hit enter:
javascript:navigator.registerProtocolHandler("...
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How do scammers get your contacts when they send emails that appear to come from you? [closed]
Everyone is familiar with ploys where scammers send fake emails to people in your contact list saying things such as "I am in jail in the UK and need you to wire $10,000...". When this happens to ...
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Retrieve Hotmail password with Google Chrome
I have a Hotmail account that I have used since the 1990s. Recently I forgot my password after being asked to change it. Google Chrome still logs in to my Hotmail account automatically on my laptop, ...
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make imap email that are read on one machine show as unread on another machine
if you have a shared email account at for somthing like [email protected] its quite useful for everyone at the company to be able to see all incoming email into that account..
when using imap if ...
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Is there any serious reason not to use symbols in an email address?
My last name is hyphenated. Is there any serious reason why I should not use a - symbol in an email address? e.g. [email protected]
I ask because I have previously been given firstname....
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Convert top-posting email to bottom-posting in Thunderbird
I would like to convert long email conversations from top-posting style to the bottom-posting style so I can paste it to a web page and other people can easily read it from the start to the end and ...
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Add rule to filter multiple from addresses in Outlook 2010
We are using Outlook 2010. We want to add filter to move some mails from particular mail id to one folder. Any option in Outlook 2010 to add more than one "from" address to same rule?
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Where are my .pst files, for Outlook 2013?
This answer introduced another problem with Outlook: my computer lacks .pst files.
4 of 5 email accounts are @outlook.com, and are listed as 'Exchange ActiveSync' under 'Type'. But these 4 are all ...
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How much larger does UUENCODE make binary files?
I remember reading somewhere that any binary files sent attached to an email must be first UUENCODEd, which makes the file sizes considerably larger, hence why it's better to send files via some other ...
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Find other mails of the same thread in Thunderbird
I really love the threaded view in Mozilla Thunderbird. Because of this, I store my sent mails in the inbox, so I can move a whole thread to an archive folder in one drag and drop.
Sometimes I get ...
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Is IMAP (un)subscribe meant to work across mail clients?
I read my IMAP-mail on different computers/mail clients. I wanted to unsubscribe from the majority of my folders in Outlook. Later, I noticed that on another computer, where I use Thunderbird, I was ...
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Sending personalized bulk email using POP3/IMAP
I have a list of email addresses and names that I'd like to send a mass email to. I would like the email to look something like:
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Body: Hi [name], I'm ...
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Email triggers?
Does anyone know of a way to use an email as a trigger to send another email?
I would like to setup a rule that will send me an email wi a specific body hand subject if I receive an email from user X ...
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Prevent Outlook 2016 from deleting event invite emails
When I respond to an event invitation in Outlook 2016 (installed on my PC), it automatically moves the corresponding email to the Deleted folder. I would like to prevent this.
I found similar ...
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Sending *.exe by changing extension failed
I know you can send .exe through email by changing their extension. I've been using this often. But strange thing happen when I tried to send this specific ".exe" file. It failed!!
It's this ...
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1.4GB of E-Mail, Thunderbird all e-mails blank when opened
A friend of mine imported 1.4 GB of e-mail from Outlook 2003 into Thunderbird Portable about a year ago. He never actually verified the import was successful and no longer has access to the Outlook ...
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Render HTML email as PNG
I have an email message in my IMAP inbox. It's HTML email that makes use of fonts, tables, images and such. How do I convert this email message into a PNG image that looks reasonably close to what I ...