Hello everyone! I have instituted a new policy for subscribers to this website. I have been overrun by spammers who would register an account, and then do nothing with it. They wouldn’t post a comment, do a track-back, or do anything to show they were interested in interacting with the site. I then started to get posts with spam content from those registered accounts, which I manually deleted at first.

However times have changed. I am tired of deleting junk, so now if someone doesn’t comment on a post, do a track-back or any activity to interact with the site your account will be deleted after 7 days. Comment spam is a growing problem for blogs, and since I don’t have advertising this is costing me time/money that I won’t waste on garbage. I am using a great plugin called “User spam remover” which is working great. It automates deleting dead accounts.

Why have subscribers at all when people can subscribe to the RSS feed? Not everyone likes RSS and for some people its easier to get email notifications. Also by having subscribers I can reduce the amount of comment spam that I have to filter. Blogs take effort to maintain.

Has anyone got a spam email that said they wanted to buy your domain? I received that today as a generic email sent to my primary email account. I deleted it of course, because it is silly that someone would want to buy my domain. I don’t have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for a commercial interest. Spammers are getting more creative in trying to verify addresses aren’t they?

Also is anyone else getting spam emails from Poland and other countries? Is it just me, or  has spam been less Nigerian money scams and more attempts to exploits public information?

I use Apple mail for email.  When…: Apple Support Communities. Nice solution. I haven’t had a problem with it. Thanks Tom.

When you add a photo to an email, control > Click on the photo in the message and selct “View as Icon”.

This may help.

Outlook 2011 to Mail in Lion: Apple Support Communities. Easy instructions. Very little data loss. This is probably good enough for most people. Thanks Bob Christensen.

The simple answer.

Mail can import mbox files. Outlook will export mbox files but only if the export is accomplished by dragging an Outlook mailbox into a new folder outside of Outlook. In my case, I dragged the entire Outlook Inbox into a new folder on the Desktop name “received”. I then used the Mail “File/Import Mailboxes/files in mbox format” command to locate the file insdie the “received” folder, which was an mbox file of all the messages inside the Outlook Inbox.

Interestingly, the effort lost 7 messages out of 2100 in the Inbox and 4 out of 700 in the Sent folder.

 

MyEmail.com – Web Access to POP and IMAP Email Service Review – About Email. I had a friend sign up for this and when we tried to use it today it gave an error. We tried several times over several hours and it always said internal error when she logged in. Very disappointing service. I would avoid this company. They also have an F at BBB.

Thanks Ernie Stamper.

Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and locate the Outbox.mbox folder. Is there one? If you open it, does the Messages folder within it have any content?

Drag the Outbox.mbox folder from its location to the Desktop. Relaunch Mail, and attempt to send. Then in the Finder again, check to see if Mail has created a new Outbox.mbox folder, and to learn if this new message was in fact sent?

via Sending from Mail: Apple Support Communities.

Ron Guest fixed it. This is a generally good idea to delete and re-add email accounts. It fixes many mysterious issues. The next upgrade is just to delete his MobileMe account.

OK. I self-solved this one. I deleted the MobileMe account on the MacBook Air, quit Mail, then started it up again and re-added the MobileMe account in Mail. Now I can send just fine.

via Unable to send mail using MobileMe…: Apple Support Communities.

Looks like tinoberlin found the solution. Another suggestion is to rebuild the mailbox.

Alright, editing the .emlx file in the directory /Users/Username/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes using TextEdit seems to be the only way to remove attachments from any email. You open the email, delete everything below your message, save it, close Mail, re-launch Mail, and the attachment has gone.

via Remove attachments in Mail: Apple Support Communities.

Pages no longer shares via mail: Apple Support Communities. Forum Member TPryts has a good workaround. Other people post other suggestions on the thread as well.

Work around for Pages not sharing via Mail.

I discovered that when I created a test pages document. ( This is a test and only a test of the Pages share via Mail script) and shared it via Mail all was well.

So it must be the org document I was working with.

I copied the content into a new blank and saved it under a different name.That worked

I got to thinking about this and tried the org document again it still would not work.

This time I re-saved it as another name. That also cured it.

I’m not sure what in the original document caused the fault. Could a file name cause it?

Thanks for the feed back

Tom

I ask because I just read an article that said that the number of online email jumped from around 4% in 2009, to 20% in 2010. I was thinking about this and my own history with email and I think I have some reasons why this is happening.

1. Levels of spam. If you don’t have great spam filtering which most desktop clients do not, you tend to get stuck with a high garbage to useful email ratio. Online filtering has been better than any kind of spam filtering on the client side, even using highly regarded spam filtering products.
2. Importance of email as a communications medium. Email has some good qualities, but I think that people are seeing the limits to sharing their data. Now with services like SugarSync, and cloud storage, one of the major reasons people use email (to move files) is becoming less important. People are creating videos on their phones/ipads/cameras and traditional email isn’t an easy way to transfer it. Most email providers have size limitations, and most people’s internet connections are not reliable/fast enough to make this process easy. So I think people are uploading their video to services like Dropbox or Google documents and sharing them from there.
3. Rise of Twitter/social networks, plugins to text for free on smartphones. I think that the immediate and easy nature of these apps bypass the ability of marketers to spam their messages. People are learning to control what information they take in, just to be able to deal with all of the information they are asked to absorb. So naturally they want to eliminate things like advertisements in Gmail, or things like Aol/Hotmail advertisements as well. They are using plugins in their browser to secure their privacy, and putting their numbers on Do not Call lists. People are sick of being spammed with email “newsletters” that every website seems to assume they want when they only want to finish reading an article they found interesting.
4. Email is an older application like Gopher, and like older applications, new generations want to explore new ways of communicating. With the mainstreaming of Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter, they are seeking new ways to connect. So apps that are mobile will probably be the new communication method. Younger people seem to like distributed and peer-to-peer applications that don’t depend on a central server to verify and maintain their information. Apps like Tiger text which provide anonymity I believe will grow even more popular.

I don’t see the death of email, since lots of older users like me find it easy. I do see it being subsumed by Skype, or other online video like FaceTime that is only a component of their full services. One day typing a message will seem as quaint as using a telegraph machine. Kids will ask, did you really have to “type” out messages? Why didn’t voice recognition just send it? Why indeed?

Why do email marketing?. Apparently 72% described email ROI second only to organic SEO. Lots of other interesting facts. I once worked for a company that offered e-mail marketing as part of their ROI for business. It is amazing the return on the investment that is possible.

Maximum PC | 27 Tips for Complete Email Mastery. If you use email you will learn something from this article. Especially helpful if you use Outlook or want to understand its capabilities better.

I have read many social media experts who suggest that posts should be a mixture of different styles and lengths. I tend to either write medium or short ones. I have noticed that when articles are multiple pages I am often disappointed with them. Perhaps it is because much of the writing I read on the internet is unfocused, or perhaps my attention span is decreasing.

As a reader what size of posts do you find the most valuable? I tend to like things between 500-1000 words myself. Anything less than 500 feels unsatisfying and very shallow. I know that I have been guilty of that in the past, so I am going to have longer articles unless I get feedback.

Since what is missing in my writing is stream of consciousness things I will incorporate more of those as well. I am watching a movie called “A New Life”. It is interesting so far. Has anyone else seen it?

Staggeringly large, although for the sheer scale of the thing, the Internet has managed to keep it personal, for example if you send an email to me@backhome2.me the email will find it’s way back to your inbox. Amazing! … Read More

via minceaboutthebush

Look at this email I just received. Is this my path to riches? You can read about other people who had the same issue.

Greetings,
I am sorry to encroach into your privacy in this manner, I found you listed in the Trade Centre Chambers of Commerce directory here in Japan, I find it pleasurable to offer you my partnership in business, I only pray at this time that your address is still valid. I want to solicit your attention to receive money on my behalf. The purpose of my contacting you is because my status would not permit me to do this alone. When you reply this message, I will send you the full details and more
information about myself and the funds. If interested, please reply through my
alternate Email: oy_takashi81@rediffmail.com

Mr. T. Oyamada
Chief financial officer
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Japan
oy_takashi81@rediffmail.com

Pingdom takes a look at Email vs. Snail Mail. … Read More

via Teknophilia

I made that mistake 3 weeks ago.  After a sales associate asked me to sign me up for the card to get a 10% discount for my friend, I started to receive emails the next day.  I received an email each day until the 4th day I had enough.  I called up and asked for my email address to be deleted and I did not wish to be contacted.

“No problem buddy” he said.  ”It is effective immediately.”

Imagine my surprise the next day when I kept receiving emails about their online service.  I called back and explained how I had contacted them before.  ”Oh well it can take up to 7 days to stop.”  After that it will stop.

Guess what happened the next week?  That’s right, everyday they sent me emails.  A week and a day later I called back.  ”This is the third time that I’ve called about this issue.  I don’t wish to be contacted.  Please remove my email.”

“Of course sir.” the woman responded.  ”You don’t want to use your online account?”

“No. I just want to get the 10% discount.  Please just delete my email.” I asked nicely.

“If you do then you won’t be able to set up an account.” she said.  At this point I began to wonder if they felt their customers were stupid or if she was just reading from a script.

“I understand that.  I was tricked to give my email address.  What do I have to do to take it off?” I asked.

“Just a minute I need to put you on hold.” she asked.  She came back and said “Ok it’s removed.”

“Great.  Thank you very much!” I said.  Click.

I will never again give anyone my email address no matter if that is a requirement to receiving a discount.  I will just say I’m sorry to hear that and walk out.  Why do business force something that a customer doesn’t want? That is not a good long-term customer retention strategy.

Apple – Support – Discussions – Does the iWeb Created Email Button ….  Turns out it doesn’t by default.  Thanks Old Toad for the instructions on how to protect your email address.

No, it does not. You can encode your email address as shown in this demo page: 2 ways to encode an email address.

Or you can use a form provider like Wufoo to create an email me link. The email is send to you from their email server and there will be no spider issue. An example of the Wufoo form can be seen at the top of the linked page above.

eddieb figured it out: (It makes sense that it wouldn’t understand two different accounts)

I figured out the problem on accident. Very long story short here. I use a MobileMe email account. When I set up the iPad, it set the account up automatically for me based on my email address, etc. But I just ran across the fact that when it set up the account automatically, it used the “@me.com” suffix on the email address. I use the “@mac.com” suffix instead. For those not familiar with MobileMe, you can use either interchangeably in the email address.

But when doing a reply all, since the email address I normally use and the one in my account settings is different, it didn’t eliminate my email from “Reply All”. So I changed the account email address (actually had to delete and recreate the account) and all is well.

Although your stabs at the problem didn’t help me Doug, the one about the alias is similar to what the problem was and should have helped me, so I’ll mark that down as “Helpful”. Thanks!

via Apple – Support – Discussions – When I.

The OP figured it out himself.  Good work.

Finally figured it out myself after trying many combinations of things. In Home>Mail>Mailboxes, I deleted the whole folder for the account (IMAP-myaddress@imap.gmail.com) as well as outbox.mbox. I emptied the trash and it finally recycled the account and loaded all my mail from the last 4 days. Maybe this will help someone else.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Apple Mail in loop and no other ….

Configuring Mails Junk Mail settings E-Mail.  Some good suggestions and great comments at the bottom.

Looks like ewhainsworth has it under control.

I had the same problem with my gmail account. I found two different things to fix this. First, I deleted my gmail account in Mail, the created a new one. Second, I deleted the Outbox According to this post by Ernie:

With a too large to send message, try quitting Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and locate the Outbox.mbox folder. Delete it, and when you relaunch Mail and next send a new one will be created.Seems to be working properly now.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Not receiving mail / getting endless ….

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. ….

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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.