Category: Email

  • SpamArrest sucks!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I had a lead for a guy today. I sent him an email to tell him so and to put him in touch with the potential client. I received back a Spamarrest email asking me to click on a link to verify that I am not a spammer. A pain in the ass, after all…

  • EmailCloud nukes my (email) spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    Ross Cooney of Rozmic contacted me recently to tell me of their latest product, EmailCloud. EmailCloud is a server-side anti-(email)spam application which is accessible and configurable through a browser. The setup wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped (I messed it up!) but a quick email to Rozmic and I had the solution back in…

  • Gmail adds IMAP support

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    Tom Raftery
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    I noticed that Chris Gilmer reported this morning that Gmail is now supporting IMAP for getting your mail as well as POP. I quickly logged into my GMail account and Lo!, there was the IMAP option – wohoo! Why is this a good thing? Well, previously if you wanted to read your Gmail in your…

  • Monster apologise

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    Tom Raftery
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    I received a phone call this morning from James Mailley, the Sales Director of Monster.ie. James is John Burns’ boss. James was extremely apologetic about what happened over the last couple of days and said he would like to email me a formal letter of apology. I told him that I would publish the letter…

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 2

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    Tom Raftery
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    It is taking me a while to get into this Vista machine. On the Mac, I live in browsers (I generally have 4 running) and email. The browsers on Vista are pretty much the same as they are on the Mac but the email experience is very different. The main choices I have for email…

  • Switching from OS X to Vista (kinda)

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft gave me a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate installed to try out. I have been toying with the Vaio but not using it heavily. To be fair to Microsoft, I’m going to try to switch as much as possible of my work from my MacBook Pro to the Vaio to…

  • Speeding up Mail.app

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read a posting on how to speed up Mail.app (my email client) which involved deleting the Envelope file and allowing Mail.app to re-import all emails and rebuild the file. On doing this I got the dialog box above – 108,741 emails? Wow! I know I have around 10 years email stored but I never…

  • Windows Live Hotmail – when branding goes bad!

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is a post today on the Hotmail team blog called We Heard You Loud and Clear. In the post, Richard Sim, Hotmail’s senior product manager says: As we prepare to launch the final version of our new web mail service, we recognize the importance of ensuring that our 260+ million existing customers come over…