Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta 2 – First Impressions
Well, I have had about 24 hours with Mango Beta 2 for Windows Phone 7 and wanted to share with you some of my first impressions of this forthcoming update for this mobile platform. While it’s...
View ArticleAn Easier Way to Monitor Google Apps E-mail Accounts
This tip is aimed at those of you who are using Google Apps with your personalised domain name and want to monitor the e-mail communications conducted under each e-mail address. For a variety of...
View ArticleHotmail Gets a Little Smarter
If you are a user of Hotmail and Windows 7 then you might find this little tip rather handy. Some websites offer extended functionality if you pin them to the taskbar in Windows 7 such as Facebook so...
View ArticleIMAP – Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
A while ago, I recommended using IMAP instead of POP3 as the mail protocol of choice for when you want to keep your mail in sync across multiple devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones. I...
View ArticleGiving Office 365 a Shot
Just a quick update. You might have read about my e-mail woes in yesterday’s article and not wanting to leave things lingering for too long I decided to pull the trigger and try out Office 365 free for...
View ArticleAlternate POP3 and SMTP Port Numbers
Here’s another quick tip. Some larger ISPs restrict the traditional ports for POP3 (incoming e-mail) and SMTP (outgoing e-mail) to only work with their own mail servers. This can be annoying...
View ArticleSMTP Error 452 – 4.3.1 Out of Memory
A more technical article for today based upon something that I encountered yesterday. The automated reporting software (Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1) with which I work uses an SMTP server to send...
View ArticleWi-Fi Done Right @ The Peninsula Hotel, Bangkok
In the past, I have written about the woes of international travel when it comes to keeping connected online with many hotels choosing to slug guests heavily for Wi-Fi in rooms with little or no...
View ArticleUseful Commands When Using Telnet on a POP3 Mail Server
This article in the series of telnet articles will give you some handy commands to use when connected to a POP3 mail server. You would not normally have reason to get at your e-mail in this fashion but...
View ArticleUsing Telnet to Delete Mass Amounts of E-mail
For whatever reason, you may end up with a huge amount of e-mail stuck on a mail server and it all just needs to go. Maybe you’ve been lax in clearing e-mail, your e-mail application isn’t managing...
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