Tag Archives: email

Mail attachment size increases when sent

Jeffery Jones explains why.

A non-text attachment must be encoded to be sent by email protocols. The encoding process makes the file 35% bigger.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Mail attachment size. ….

Outlook Plug-in Keeps Tone of Your Email in Check – PCWorld

Outlook Plug-in Keeps Tone of Your Email in Check – PCWorld.  Software regulating behavior.  Seems like it would be easier to just work on yourself.  If you are this way at work, what are you like at home?

Mail.app Unable to send messages

topspin has the answer.

Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes. Locate the Outbox.mbox folder and delete it — Mail will create a new one when it needs it. Relaunch Mail and test.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Mail.app Unable to send messages ….

Jaamun – offers Email on any phone. Without GPRS (via Virtuosity – Yet another blog)

This is helpful if you have a cell phone that doesn’t support email.

Jaamun - offers Email on any phone. Without GPRS Ashamed to pull your phone out in a gathering? If you have a phone that would be hidden in the darkest corner of a museum of phone-snobs, all is not lost yet. Thanks to Indian entrepreneurs ‘Jaamun,' you can now whip out that museum piece and check email on it. Oh yes, and without those GPRS charges too. ‘Jaamun's tagline is “email on any mobile,” and this simple service is what they are providing — for the simplest of phones. ‘Jaamun' is a ventu … Read More

via Virtuosity – Yet another blog

E-mail Etiquette: 8 Tips to Avoid Communication Blunders (via G3nt00r’s Blog)

Some good suggestions if your emails aren’t getting the response that you hoped.

– Meridith Levinson, CIO May 19, 2010 Think e-mail writers have become more effective and polite in the last decade? Maureen Bertolo begs to differ. Not only do the dreaded "reply all" and SHOUT e-mail blunders persist, but also, Twitter and texting are making e-mail manners worse, says Bertolo, who began her career as a computer programmer and has been teaching e-mail etiquette classes for 10 years. Unfortunately, she says, people express the sa … Read More

via G3nt00r's Blog

The Ultimate Email Marketing Guide: 15 Tips To Fast Email Marketing Success! (via Jesse Light – Email Marketing Optimization)

This is a good starting point if you are considering doing email marketing.

A practical “how-to” list for email marketing success, from small to large business. Email marketing is easy (–ponder–) if you know how to do it. Wow, you have heard that one before, I’m sure. Is that not always the case – with almost anything? So, why even say it? Because – in this case it is really true. However, so many small businesses make it more complex than it is; they don’t fully understand or grasp the impact of list building, what tool … Read More

via Jesse Light – Email Marketing Optimization

Having problems with Comcast and email on your Mac?

Make sure it isn’t a password issue by resetting them.  That is what happened to this guy.  Strange thing is that he had one computer working and one not working.  I wonder if they both had the same DNS server and were contacting the same mail server?

Fastmail for email no longer reliable

Some terrible experiences that one user had here. Does anyone have any suggestions for safe reliable email?  I have never had a security problem when I used to use MobileMe or now using Gmail.

Do you ever see E-mail marked light-green in MobileMe?

Apparently it is because it is from an alias.  He learned this trick from his neighbor.  Thanks Good Fella!

Is Email a toxic system?

Mr. Suster wrote an article explaining how his perceptions of inefficiency.  I must admit that using other forms to communicate like Twitter took some doing.  I used to love doing IRC when I was younger, but I was hesitant to change.  I was encouraged by a younger friend to do Twitter and now I appreciate it for its helpfulness.  If email tends to lead to wordiness, and twitter to spartan, is there a middle ground?  IM is wordiness too since it’s not always clear how much time the other person has.  I like the asynchronicity of twitter vs. IM.

Can’t set up blueyonder email

This post gives the details that work.  The setup instructions are apparently out of date.

Does your secondary email account on your iPhone not work?

It could be because of the icon cache filling up the space on it.  You can read Allan Sampsons great solution here. “Create your MobileMe account on your iPhone and turn Contacts and Calendars on for over the air syncing with your MobileMe account settings on your iPhone. If you have a MobileMe account and are syncing contacts and calendar events over the air with your MM account on your iPhone, you don’t need to sync contacts and calendar events direct with the Address Book and iCal on your Mac via the iTunes sync process.

Try syncing iTunes content including the music, video, podcasts, and 3rd party apps you want transferred/installed on your iPhone, but don’t select anything under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences.

If no problems with this, try selecting the single iPhoto album you want transferred to your iPhone under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences. If the same error message is provided, this narrows it down to transferring photos only which means there is a problem with what is called the iPod Photo Cache, which can be deleted from iPhoto.”

and also: “You’re welcome.

This link includes instructions for removing the iPod Photo Cache from iPhoto. Doing so should resolve the problem.”

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

Does email crash on your iPhone when you try to delete?

Then what should you do?  Turn it on airplane mode and thank doctorbuck. If that doesn’t work try PhotoLife’s suggestion. On the iPhone:

1. Tap the Settings icon and switch to airplane mode (just to make sure no other e-mails come in).

2. Still in Settings, Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap Fetch New Data and tap Push to “Off” and go back to Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

3. Tap “Preview” and change it to “None”. I think this was the solution because it prevented the problem e-mail from opening again.

4. Turn the iPhone off and then back on again just to make sure.

5. Open Mail.

6. Go to the inbox and look for the culprit “Mail Delivery Failure” message.

7. Delete it by sliding over it (don’t open it!).

8. Go back to the trash and and delete it again as in step 7.

9. Go back to your inbox – if it worked you will now be able to access your e-mail.

10. Turn off airplane mode and return your e-mail settings to the original settings.

Wanting to do Email Marketing?

You can find a great overview here. It also lists companies that can help you manage an email campaign.  I have worked with companies who did this in the past and they achieved a 1-3% response rate.  While that seems small, it was enough to pay for the costs and be worthwhile to do.

Apple Mail reports home directory is full when opening program

This is interesting.  This has never happened to me.  I wonder how many messages she has.  Turns out you just need to follow some simple instructions.

Considering some options for Business email?

I have worked for a company that used Rackspace and on the whole they have a good technical support.  Unfortunately they also had some notable outages as Gene has reminded the reader.  Those were painful and embarrassing.  I would rather go with this suggestion than deal with GoDaddy.  They have been disappointing as well.

Want to store your email on Googles server and have a Mac?

You are in luck!  There is a great tool to do this. This is a great way to migrate mail if you are using Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Eudora.

Limitations to observe with names in MAC OS X Server

It lists them in this article. Still its not too much to ask if you limit the size of the path to 255 for an all Apple environment and 89 characters for a mixed environment.

Tired of Mac Mail, Outlook or Windows Live Mail? Try Thunderbird

A new version 3 came out and provides some but not all of the features the other ones listed here provide.  Click here to get more details.

6 Ways to Keep Your E-mail from Hurting You

Some practical suggestions.  Click here to read the PCMAG.com blog.

How to create an html email with Apple Apps

Very good step by step instructions.  Click here.

When to use Twitter instead of e-mail

Joe suggests four situations when this might work better.  I think it is a thoughtful commentary.  Read more here.

Having problems reading forwarded email as an attachment on your iPhone?

So is everyone else.  Read here for others who share this problem.  One person suggested “Best work around I have found so far is to change your rules that Forward to a rule that Delegates. That will get you the main text, but again no attachments.”

Move PC Outlook email to Mail.app

Move PC Outlook email to Mail.app Kind of involved but it works.

MobileMe: Configuring third-party email applications

MobileMe: Configuring third-party email applications Has Outlook, Entourage, Vista Mail checklists for install.

Eudora – No longer supported

Its working under life support in Snow Leopard.  Eudora from the excellent Macintouch site.  The developer is working on an open source version.  Learn about that here.

Apple Mail Privacy Hole

Apple Mail Privacy Hole If you use Apple Mail it loads remote content by default.

Snow Leopard: Mail’s Hyperlink Bug

Snow Leopard: Mail’s Hyperlink Bug Doesn’t always show the underlined link for clickable links.  Will revert to normal and expected behavior in other contexts such as replying to message.  Other small bugs in Mail 4.  Another Odd Mail bug in Leopard

Gmail Users Get Real-Time Updates in their Email Messages

Gmail Users Get Real-Time Updates in their Email Messages Enhanced content explained.  ”Super spam”

10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte

10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte Thawte is just one certification provider but this can be modified for any certificate provider.

What Mac email program should I use?

This Apple forum post Why Mail over Entourage gives some reasons why a person should choose one over the other.  I think the decision is simple for someone.  If you have to connect to an exchange server usually in a business environment get Entourage.  Yes Mail does have some support for Exchange but this is a new development, and Entourage is proven to work.  Most everyone else can use mail if they don’t webmail.  The case for Entourage on Snow Leopard

Multiple Copies of Emails