Tag: Mail
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 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)
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)
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)
Slow Mail Server? Not so Fast!
You just completed installing a brand new mail server, and the mailboxes have been configured and enabled. The newly mounted server is a monster: able to take punishment, heavy loads, and process data in a flash. (Dec 01, 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)
Is my hard drive healthy?
The hard drive is rarely considered the primary cause in bottleneck cases; we usually tend to suspect the applications installed on the server. People often think the source of system performance issues is either disk corruption or insufficient disk space, but Physical Disk: %disk time and Physical Disk: Current Disk Queue Length are equally important metrics that work in parallel. There are few other ways to detect hard drive problems using other metrics, but for now I will only focus on these two performance counters. (Nov 17, 2010)
Facebook Mail Rumor: Friend or Foe? Gmail killer?
The feature hasn’t even been officially announced yet and already the “Will Facebook kill Gmail, Hotmail, etc.” speculations are popping up all over the Net. I don’t know about ‘kill’ per se, but Facebook will definitely give the big guns a run for their money. (Nov 12, 2010)
Word of the Week: Email Bomb
An email bomb is the act of sending copious amounts of e-mail in an attempt to overflow a mailbox or crash the mail server. (Sep 29, 2010)
You might be an IT Nazi if…
When it comes to email content and filter settings, let’s suppose you have to keep a tight lid over what users can and cannot access. Or maybe you’re just too keenly aware of how people can get themselves into trouble and all the man-hours required to clean up the resulting mess. You might be an IT Nazi if... (Sep 22, 2010)
Cool Tool: IMAPCOPY
Have you ever had to migrate mailboxes from server X to server Y? Unfortunately, each type of MTA natively stores mailboxes and folders differently from other MTAs (Sep 08, 2010)
Spear Phishing: Is Your Boss a Whale?
Spear and whale phishing 1have been around for a while now, but recent social engineering efforts are focusing more on company executives. An example is this type of email: it certainly looks legit at first glance; even the phone number and address – right down to the floor number – are correct. But take a closer look at the URL used in the links: the real site has no relation to puzzlejs-mailing.com. (Jul 29, 2010)
Privacy vs. Data Leakage: What’s More Important to You?
In an earlier post, I discussed why your business needs Policy Management and the different causes of Data Leakage. In today’s post, I will take a closer look at one of the causes of data leakage protection and how it can be prevented: let’s look at the case of the Disgruntled Employee. (Jul 08, 2010)
Honest, I don’t want an email security appliance!
Vendors have their own very special reasons for pushing email security appliances, instead of virtual machines or straight software installations. You may find that their reasons do not always align with your own. (Jun 14, 2010)
Here come the spam police
The German courts may have just opened the floodgates. Their top criminal court ruled this week that home wireless users can be held responsible for not password-protecting their wireless connections. If the unprotected connection is used for illegal file downloads, the owner can be fined up to 100 Euros (currently $126). (May 17, 2010)
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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)
