Have you ever been misunderstood online? We’ve all experienced occasions when an email didn’t quite convey the message it was supposed to. Such problems can take a surprising amount of time to clear up – to establish what was really being said. An amusing email mistake was reported on the
Today I learned how to solve outgoing email problems. The problem: Email was coming into a new installation of Thunderbird but outgoing mail was throwing up an error message. We checked: The details of the outgoing mail server The usernames and passwords of the relevant accounts The security requirements of
I have been very suspicious of HTML-based email for some time: sending an HTML-based email is a bit hit and miss – I have seen so many rendered as just a pile of code and quite unintelligible to the reader. Nobody – especially not when you’re putting out an important
The BBC reports today on companies which are instituting “no-email” days in order, so as – they claim – to “increase productivity”. Some of the companies mentioned include Intel, PBD, Deloitte and Touche. They’ve picked Friday. That doesn’t seem a very good idea to me. As Friday is the last
Debbie Weil writes in the Guardian about one way to deal with an overload of email. Well, we all face it to some extent, don’t we? Two bloggers in the US have declared themselves ’email bankrupt.’ Fred Wilson declared: ‘I am so far behind on email that I am declaring
According to this story on the BBC today, Google is expanding its empire into universities – with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google’s e-mail service. Apparently Trinity College Dublin has switched over entirely to Google’s e-mail. The new Google-based e-mail addresses (which can still be applied to