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As you may have seen on Lockergnome (or heard from Chris Pirillo himself), SolarWinds just released another FREE tool — SolarWinds Exchange Monitor.
SolarWinds Exchange Monitor is a desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange servers to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. You will be able to:

Quickly identify […]

This past weekend, I spent time setting up four new laptops for one of my business clients. Out of habit, one of the things I do when I get to the point of setting up e-mail is send test messages. I didn’t have any reason to believe that e-mail wouldn’t work, but I’m glad I […]

Do we take email reliability/deliverability for granted? I’m talking about email that traverses the Internet (e.g. outside of internal corporate email delivery, which there should be no question about reliability).
It seems to me that I’ve had an increase in the number of complaints/reports from some of my clients about lost emails in the past […]

Gnomie Tyler Jones writes:
I receive about 220 emails a day (I know that’s nothing compared to what you get, Chris, but it’s a lot for us normal folk), and I sometimes find it hard to manage my inbox. Over time, I’ve made these tips for managing my email more efficiently, and I thought that I […]

Recently my Outlook 2007 connection to my Google Apps mail account became increasingly slow and sluggish, to the point of extreme frustration. Slow syncs and a general sense of bloat were ruining my experience and making it close to unusable. During email syncs my system would practically hang as Outlook churned away.
Not acceptable. I either […]

Have you ever lost your massive email database to a hard drive crash, inadvertent deletion, program failure, or monsoonal winds? MailStore Home is a solution for people who have a need to back up their emails in a straightforward and simple fashion. It works with all POP3 and IMAP accounts (as in Gmail), as well […]

There’s been a slight lack of specific information about the actual Gmail IMAP rollout timeframes (the phrase being thrown around - “a few days” - is sufficiently vague, yet it tends to make one think of the number “three”), as well as a lack of information about Google Apps email service and IMAP on that […]

Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox discusses newsletter usability and the competition for user attention. Nilesen reports that the original findings remain true today: “email newsletters are the best way to maintain customer relationships on the Internet.”
I love newsletters as a marketing tool. Done right, you provide valuable information to readers without annoying them with sales-speak. I […]

When I find my way to a Web site, I may have gotten there through a search engine or through a link from a colleague or Web site. After I’ve scanned the content and fiddled around in the pages, the site may impress me if the information proves valuable.
What do I do then? The possibilities: […]

I recently (meaning a couple months ago) dumped my increasingly unreliable and time-consuming self-hosted POP and SMTP email server in favor of one of the big hosted service options available for free from a variety of sources. In my case I looked at several of the more ubiquitous options, and chose to go with Google […]

I recently moved the greghughes.net domain (web site, mail and everything else) to a godaddy.com virtual dedicated server. In doing so, I lost the anti-spam services that were previously provided by my old web host. Needless to say, the resulting load of spam was fairly overwhelming. My prior host had an appliance out front that […]

I’m in the process of moving my email for the greghughes.net domain to a new mail server, and I’ve realized - once again - just how complicated spammers have made our lives. Especially from a technical standpoint.
PTR records in DNS and RBL records on services that no one ever heard of and which have no […]

How do you truly know when email has become a problem without a good solution? Simple. Take a vacation. This is a clue…

Do you struggle trying to locate items in Outlook? Do you spend far too much time searching through your Inbox and various other folders in Outlook trying to find the item you are looking for? If so, you might want to consider using Categories.
A category is a specific word or phrase that you can […]

Every business that uses e-mail as the main communication tool should put together an e-mail etiquette guide outlining proper use and company expectations. Many of us often forget that there is indeed a person on the other end of an e-mail and this leads to misuse. Some people may not even be aware of the […]

More often than not, when a problem presents itself the answer to it is sometimes more strange than the problem. Not too long ago, Bell Canada (Sympatico) made a deal with Hotmail to use its servers for e-mail. Any new customers that join Sympatico and have the Basic Lite DSL service have their mail […]

Ever need access to an SMTP server so you can send e-mail when you’re out doing the mobile computing thing?
Use Gmail: Set your e-mail client to drop outbound mail to smtp.google.com, and use your Gmail login credentials. It even supports using an SSL connection, if you like.
Gmail is a free webmail service, currently in beta […]

E-mail has become the most popular ways for people to communicate in the workplace. If I need to get in touch with a coworker or client, most of the time I prefer sending an e-mail as opposed to picking up the telephone.
In order to be savvy in the e-mail department, there are certain rules that […]

“Hey! Did you get my e-mail?”
Ironically enough, this is now one of the most frequently asked questions that most of us - even Fortune 500 executives - get asked these days. “Of *course* I got your e-mail! I just haven’t had time to sift through the pile of bytes yet this morning. Or maybe your […]

TNPCers, do I have an anti-spam solution for you. Our good friend (and
collaborator on utility development), Mike Craven, has devised a most
excellent Microsoft Outlook add-in called Junk-Out.
The software comes in two flavors: Basic (US$20) and Pro (US$30). If you are
reading this, however, your level of computer knowledge is such that you
should be buying Junk-Out Pro […]