Archive for the ‘Email Tips’ Category
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Both Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes (Domino) have a feature called "Message Recall". They both have serious limitations and it is only under rare exceptions do they work. They ONLY work within the local mail system (not with messages to the internet, for example) and ONLY if the recipient ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Your office should go paperless. Why? Because you can save money and help make the planet cleaner. You care about your grandchildren don't you? You want them to have trees to climb and shade to relax under and clean air to breath, right?
You can use modern technology (specifically email) to ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Spammers will ignore MX records sometimes and use "mail.somedomainname.com" to relay spam to. If you have an off-site email filtering service provider and you set all your MX records to their server, all your mail should go to the off-site email filtering provider's servers, according to the MX records, but ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
We've covered email headers in the past two posts. Today we'll cover how to display them in two popular email clients, Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Here is how to display the internet header in Microsoft Outlook:
Right-mouse click on the email item for which you want to view the header.
Click "Message ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about Email Headers. Today I will zoom in on the Received headers. We will take an example header and break it down line by line. Consider the following set of received lines from an email header:
Received: from mx1.sentinare.net (lausanne [10.2.28.23])
by mailbox01.sentinare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
An email header can tell you a lot about an email. It tells you the date it was composed and the sender of course, but it also can tell you the path it took to get to your mailbox. According to the internet standard which describes email body format, RFC-2822:
Header ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
An MX record is a public record in the global DNS (Domain Name System) that specifies which servers handle mail for a given domain name. MX records also specify the priority mail servers should be given in delivery attempts. Consider the following MX records:
yourdomain.com. IN MX 10 mx1.sentinare.net.
yourdomain.com. ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The first two pieces of information a reader sees for each new email item is the sender and the subject. A good subject informs the reader as to the content of the message and helps in managing the inbox.
Here are some thoughts and tips for creating effective subjects:
Courtesy: A meaningful ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Good email security means nothing without a good password security strategy. Too many people have simple passwords and use the same passwords in multiple places. With the rise of identity theft, there is grave danger in using the same easy password for every online login you use. Here is a ...
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