Category: Email

forwardOn

| February 8, 2009 | 0 Comments

I recently learned about a site called forwardOn. The folks behind this site state their mission as trying to reward users for preventing the potential negative effects of forwarding email (wasted bandwidth and storage, viruses and scams). ForwardOn is free to join. To use forwardOn all you need to do is strip your email of [...]

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10 things to consider before emailing

| December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

I get a lot of email. on a typical day I get no less than 100 different emails. Hating a cluttered inbox, I try to go through them and handle them appropriately right away. More than a few things aren’t relevant to me or annoy me so much that I just delete them. Here’s some [...]

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How to properly email a group of individuals

| October 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

You’re wondering why someone would write a how to about sending an email, aren’t you? Here’s the deal. Anyone who works with email a lot has seen this happen. You open an email and it’s been send to you and twenty other people. Not necessarily the worst thing except you don’t know them and now [...]

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Wildfire email phishing scam

| November 13, 2007 | 0 Comments

The Internal Revenue Service recently put out a warning that there are some fake emails or phishing schemes being spread around that claim to be requesting donations to benefit victims of the California wildfires in the name of the IRS and the US government. Just in case you don’t know what phishing is, phishing is [...]

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Anyone at Mozilla listening?

| October 26, 2007 | 0 Comments

If anyone over there at Mozilla is listening, thank you! Two days ago I blogged that I had abandoned Outlook for Thunderbird for my email, and that I use the calendar addon called Lightning. The only thing I was missing from Outlook was my todo list. This morning I turned on the computer and opened [...]

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Do you keep a calendar on your computer?

| October 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

I loved Outlook. I am Microsoft certified in Outlook, as well as other programs. I used most of the built in features quite a bit especially the calendar. But I was having so many problems running it I switched to Thunderbird. I missed my calendar for a short while, but then I discovered there’s a [...]

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How to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird

| September 22, 2007 | 0 Comments

Since installing Thunderbird and not using Outlook and Outlook Express a couple of weeks ago, my computer has behaved a lot better. Thunderbird is an open source email client and it runs on Windows and Mac. If you’re interested in switching to Thunderbird, for whatever reason, here’s the instructions on how to get it going. [...]

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