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managing email addresses – the good ol’ fashioned way

Sometimes I have questions which really take me back to the basics.
Today I had a question from someone who is excellent at what they do, but not terribly literate when it comes to computers.  And that’s ok, they don’t have to be, that’s why they have me to help them out :)  Anyway, they simply wanted to manage a small (under 25 names) sub-group of their address book for sending once a month emails and not interested in a lot of fuss Continue reading »

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Spam!

I went to my P.O. Box (you know – that thing at the post office) and there were credit card solicitations and circulars from the grocery store and hardware store. I said to postal worker- “Hey, can’t you do something about this?” Well, the answer was Continue reading »
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Blue and white Mail folders explained | E-mail and Internet | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld

If you use Mail and organize your messages into folders, you might find that some of your folders have a white folder icon, while others have a blue folder icon …

Blue and white Mail folders explained | E-mail and Internet | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld

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Deleting email from the server

We recommend deleting messages off of the server.  Below are instructions for setting your email software to delete messages off of the server after downloading them…

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I’m an Apple guy …

I got a call today to help a client whose email just stopped sending. Bad news, since I personally just set up her new email accounts a handful of days ago. I rearrange my day, drive over; check it out. Yep, it won’t send. The email client (Outlook) on their desktop machine constantly asks for the login info. I finally eliminated all other possibilities (including deleting the account I so very recently installed) and since the error persisted I concluded that it MUST be the ISP – give them a call. So the client called them. To make a long story short – the ISP made changes without telling anyone. My client called and there was a voice mail stating the same. Sigh. Thanks.

All this time, while my client was on the phone, I was exploring their brand new Windows 7 laptop – looking for the email client – such as outlook – so I could setup email on that new computer. I looked, and looked and looked. Am I dumb or what? I can’t find any email client. Feeling quite low IQ, I searched the internet. It seems Windows 7 doesn’t have an email client installed …. :P

Downloading Thunderbird and installing. Nice.
Back to the 21st century.
What IS Microsoft thinking with that?

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