Questions tagged [email]
Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.
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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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How to save emails from Thunderbird as .eml
Thunderbird officially supports the format .eml-file but I am not able to save mails into this format. Please advise how to do this.
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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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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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view two maildirs as one in mutt/neomutt
Simplifying another question about merging multiple email accounts:
I have two maildirs. How do I get a combined listing of both - either in Mutt or NeoMutt? This means where the messages are sorted ...
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How do I back up all my email messages from Mail to Dropbox?
My goal is:
Take all of my email messages in Mac Mail, and compress them into one file.
Upload that file into Dropbox.
Even if I do not use Macs in the future, I should be able to see all my ...
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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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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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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 ([email protected])
John Doe (john.doe@gmail....
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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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Are .eml attachments a security risk?
My email service provider blocks mails with attached .eml files, apparently for security reasons, with the result that I loose relevant mails.
I have tried to find a description of the current ...
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How to export email addresses from Apple Mail?
When sending an email to someone in Apple Mail it remembers their address, so if you try and send another email to them it'll prompt you with it - even if you haven't added them to the address book.
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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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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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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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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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What can cause an Outlook 2007 email to suddenly become uneditable while composing it?
I'm my boss' personal help desk, but that's another story...
He has this consistent problem where he'll create an Outlook 2007 email (HTML format is the default), and while composing it, happily ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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How to use metamail to extract mail attachments without interactive input?
I am looking for a way to save all attachments from an IMAP folder with 3000+ DMARC reports each of which is attached inside the individual messages as .zip or .xml.gz file. I am using Claws Mail ...
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Outlook rule for messages for while I am the only name in the "To:" box
Similar to this question I'd like to filter my messages based on how prominently they feature me in the address list. I often get important messages that look like this:
To: <me>
Cc: <one or ...
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Postfix not sending to gmail [added spf & dkim]
Hello i've been struggling for a while now. I will give all the details i can.
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Server: DigitalOcean (Droplet)
Domain Registrar: Namecheap
I hope i did not change up somethings with ...
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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 ...