Tag: Email
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Set Up Exchange Email on your Android device
Need to know how to add your company/corporate email to your new Android phone or tablet? Here some nicely detailed instructions on how to set it up. I am always walking people through these steps over the phone and without an Android device in front of me this can be tricky. [update] Here are some…
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Outlook 2011 for Mac
So I got Outlook 2011 the other day, thinking that it might be a better solution than Thunderbird + DavMail. It works well enough with exchange 2007 and 2010, but if you’re connecting to exchange/sbs 2003…forget about it – it’s not supported. That got me thinking…if an iPhone can connect exchange 2003, why can’t the…
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Get your Exchange email in Thunderbird
I found a small java application called DavMail. This tool is essentially an OWA -> IMAP translator. It runs locally on your system and will connect on demand to your OWA account, download messages and deliver them via IMAP to any mail client of your choice. It also proports to translate calendar to CalDav and…
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Paste as plain text in Outlook
I use Outlook at work and a lot of the information I send out in messages is copied from various sources to the clipboard and then to the pasted into the new message dialog. One thing that has always annoyed me about this process is that by default in Outlook the underlying styling/formatting of the…
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DIY Forms Solved by WordPress
If you use WordPress, you’re probably familiar with the admin interface’s widgets tool. It a super easy user interface (UI) that allows users enable/disable elements by dragging them into a designated area. Gravity Forms has ingeniously utilized this concept to allow users create web based forms by dragging and dropping fields. But wait! There’s more.…
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Email & track a thousand subsribers for free
MailChimp is the email campaign service I’ve been looking for. It offers free beautiful email templates, ISP feedback loops and subscriber response tracking. Signing up for a free account will let you generate beautiful email campaigns for up to a thousand subscribers and let you send six thousand emails a month.
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Archive your corporate e-mail, it’s the law
As of December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) rules have been amended to require institutions to archive their email and other electronic data so they can present present it as evidence in civil litigation. An entire industry has sprouted up to help companies comply with what is commonly termed eDiscovery law. The…
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Google Apps limits outgoing emails to 500 a day
Before I start my rant, I’d like to mention that I’m still pleased with the overall functionality of Google Apps and I’ve posted to that effect here. That said, here are a couple of things I dislike about Google Apps & Google Apps Premier. Both have impacts on small business clients of mine. First Google…