Tag: Email
directQuarantine for Outlook Launches Today
Today Vircom launches directQuarantine for Outlook, a Microsoft add-on for Outlook designed to relieve IT administrators from time-consuming quarantine tasks. Users can view, sort, search & release their quarantined email directly within Outlook. (Apr 19, 2011)
How to Analyze Spam Email Headers
Spam characteristics appear in two parts of an email: the message header and the message content. Headers are important to examine because they show the history of the message delivery path as well as some common characteristics of spam. When a message is initially generated, it should include standard header fields such as From, To, Subject, Date, and Message-ID. Other standard headers include Received, Cc, Bcc, etc. (Mar 22, 2011)
Email Overload: Cleaning up old emails, is it worth it? Part 4
The next step in my on-going battle with Email Overload is to go through older email and determine whether it is worth keeping. To some this exercise would appear of little value, but I thought it would at least help me figure out what value I actually attach to email and help me better understand how to manage it. (Mar 17, 2011)
How to properly handle email marketing opt-out
It is very important to make it easy for your recipients to opt-out from your email marketing communications. (Mar 09, 2011)
Email vs. Social Media: Email Is Still the Killer App
Every now and then someone offers up their opinion about why they think email is dying, and social media and other communication formats are taking over. (Feb 24, 2011)
Email Overload: Did I actually get to Inbox Zero? Part 3
Success! Turns out getting to Zero Inbox is not that hard after all, and staying there is even easier. Of course, is it worth doing at all? That it still to be determined for me. (Feb 23, 2011)
Have You Checked Your Email Server’s Reputation?
Most ISPs (big or small) are not aware of their company’s status on the Internet; let alone what it is and how to check it. In fact, it is called a reputation, and this is the grade that is given to either your domain name (or the domains hosted on your system) and/or the IP addresses that you use to send mail out. (Feb 17, 2011)
How to Troubleshoot 501 5.7.1 Errors with Exchange
If you’ve ever had “501 5.7.1 This system is not configured to relay mail from…” errors when relaying email through Exchange, it means that your email client did not properly log on to the mail server because it failed the SMTP authentication check. (Jan 31, 2011)
Dictionary Spam Trends
Spammers often like to use a dictionary type of attack to reach users’ Inboxes. You have probably noticed that most spam now appears to come from your own email address. A dictionary attack is where spammers create or work off a list of addresses starting with the letter A, and move down the alphabet. (Jan 28, 2011)
Troubleshooting your mail server part 2
In Part 1 of Troubleshooting your email server, I showed you how to use telnet to determine whether or not your mail server is having communication problems on port 25. In this part, we’ll see how to test address resolution to check for DNS Server problems (Jan 27, 2011)
How Windows Search in Windows 7 flattened my email life
From XP to Windows 7 now, search has been getting progressively better on the Microsoft desktop. It is now getting really effective, quick and accurate to do searches for emails with Windows Desktop Search. (Jan 25, 2011)
Email Encryption: Is your email secure?
So, you’ve secured your mail server and implemented all the necessary security policies. You think all your data is safe now and your privacy is protected? Think again. What about your correspondence? (Jan 24, 2011)
Troubleshooting your mail server part 1
It’s not unusual to get an end-user complaint about problems sending email or login attempts timing out. These issues often point to a specific client configuration or browser setting. But what if the situation involves more than a simple client feature, and has been reported by many end users? The first step is to determine if there is indeed a server communication problem. (Jan 17, 2011)
25 Most Common Mistakes in Email Security
The 25 most common mistakes in email security. (Jan 14, 2011)
Email Overload: Clear your inbox in a few easy steps
A few steps to help you use your inbox properly and quickly clear it. Based on methods proposed by Mark Hurst in his excellent book, Bit Literacy. (Jan 10, 2011)
How to prep your email system for the holidays
About to leave for the Christmas and New Year's holidays? Don't forget about your holiday admin checklist! (Dec 22, 2010)
The Spam Before Christmas
The Spam Before Christmas [Video]. ‘Twas the fortnight before Christmas, and all through my email / No good messages were stirring, just illicit retail; / There were Viagra and Cialis, and their load of bunk, / And watches galore – really, who buys this junk? (Dec 08, 2010)
Smishing and Vishing: Scammers are targeting your cell phone
Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. (Nov 29, 2010)
Word of the Week: Bacn
What? Wait a second…we’ve heard of spam (and dread it) but what is this bacn you speak of? Mmm bacon (a la Homer Simpson). Nope, not that kind! Bacn, as described by Wikipedia, is all that email that you have signed up for (think: countless newsletters that seemed necessary at the time) but are often not read by you for a long period of time. (Nov 23, 2010)
Latest spear phishing wave targets companies
Let’s say your name is Jim and you get this email. It looks like this Michelle knows you but you can’t really remember who she is. Since you have 8,641,037 friends on Facebook, you decide to trust the email (it’s not perfect, but it’s not as full of typos as typical spam, so that’s a start!). (Nov 12, 2010)
More Recent News
Recent Spam Survey Winners
We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes. (Jan 23, 2012)
New Year's Resolution
We spend 8 to 10 (or more) hours a day at work - more time than we spend anywhere else - and our desks/workspaces are becoming our kitchen tables. But, do you realize that our desks are covered in more bacteria... (Jan 20, 2012)
Email Usage Survey
We are currently conducting a market research on email usage at work. Thank you for filling our this very short survey. (Jan 12, 2012)
