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How to send email from IMAP-synonym?

Recently, I have set up a webmail account at gmx.com. This is a simple webmail with IMAP capabilities. I have Thunderbird installed on my computer and I can use it to read my webmail with IMAP. This ...
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How can i download current emails on server using outlook

A friend of mine used to read all his email using the squirrel webmail client and now he wants to start using outlook. The problem is that when we configured the client with imap, none of the ...
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Use Exchange webmail with a full mail client

My university uses exchange. Unfortuantly, they block the Exchange ports, so the only way to use the university email from a non-campus PC is to use webmail. The webmail is very basic unless you use ...
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How to backup and restore mails from online services

Is it possible to backup all mails from a Gmail or Yahoo mail account to my computer and then again restore them? I use Windows XP on my machine.
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does Gmail or any other popular webmail service scrub javascript from html emails? if not, any reason why?

I have seen claims that some email services mark emails with javascript as spam. But I have not seen mentioned that any sensible service would just optionally scrub any embedded javascript entirely ...
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Security difference between webmail access and desktop email client? [closed]

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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Can't figure out why winmail.dat file occurs only in webmail

I have a client who mainly uses Outlook to send emails. We have set all the settings to use HTML as outlined in other winmail.dat solutions. Her problem is a little more weird. She can send an ...
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configuring mail on ubuntu server

I installed "mail server" on ubuntu using tasksel --section server I don't know how to configure it, and I'm failing at proper google searches. Please help: I need to set up appropriate responces ...
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How can I safely open a suspicious email?

Suppose I receive an email that I highly suspect is some form of spam but I'm not 100% sure. Suppose also that I'm using form of webmail (like Gmail) with good spam filters, but this message made it ...
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How to set up a personalize web-based email (not with google app)

I have a humble community site running on a tiny ubuntu VPS. I need to set up and use an email like contact@mysite.com to handle my 'official' communications. I don't want to rely on google app ...
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How to view POP mail in a web browser

I have an email account with my hosting package. Is there a web service that will allow me to view my emails from any web browser (to simulate a Gmail like experience). So far I only know how to do it ...
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Is there a personal web based email aggregator application that can be installed on your own server?

It seems like there is an influx of email aggregation web sites that work similar to GMail in the way that they can aggregate emails similar to a traditional Desktop email reader application but that ...
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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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Security implications of mail stored locally vs. webmail

I've always used webmail instead of a client to download mail to my local machine. That seems more secure to me, because if someone steals my notebook, they won't have access to my mail. With a ...
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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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Why NOT to use GMail? [closed]

I've been a mutt user for years and I was skeptical when I came to know about gmail. After I started using it though, I started to see all the good stuff, mostly the ability to access my email with ...
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Free Tool for reading everyone.net Webmail in Thunderbird

Does anyone know of a free tool that I can use to read my everyone.net basic webmail account in Thunderbird? If not, is there a good way for me to migrate my email out of my everyone.net account? ...
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How to prove that an email has been sent?

I have a dispute on my hands in which the other party (landlord's real estate agent) dishonestly claims to not have received an email that I truly did send. My questions is, what are the ways to ...
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What webmail client works well?

My webhosts installed Horde as the webmail client, but it is quite terrible in comparison to modern software like Gmail. I installed the Free and opensource RoundCube via FTP, but probably due to ...
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What are free webbased email providers that don't ask stupid questions?

What are free webbased mail providers out there that have a relatively decent interface, and don't ask stupid questions while opening a new mail ? By stupid question I mean: "what is your mobile ...
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Email clients vs Webmail - which use which protocols?

Here is my understanding: Webmail (gmail, etc) uses http for sending/retrieving emails. Email clients (thunderbird, etc) use SMTP for sending emails, and POP3/IMAP to retrieve emails. (Or, do they ...