PMMail 2000 2.20 - Nos/2talgy
Monday May 31, 2004
I've been an avid user of PMMail. In 1995. On OS/2. OS/2 was the best (or at least the better) operating system, of course, and PMMail was the best email ... Read More
Ignore Delivery Failures of Messages You Did Not Send
Monday May 31, 2004
Brazen and shameless denial is always amusing (though not always harmless). Picture the birthday cake thief who confidently testifies: "I did not eat it!" with lots of whipped cream in ... Read More
Send a Message From a Different Account in Mac OS X Mail
Sunday May 30, 2004
How big does a mirror have to be so you can see yourself from head to toe? If you think that depends on the distance to the mirror (like I ... Read More
Buttercup Stationery
Sunday May 30, 2004
Where I grew up, there were tons and tons of buttercups. Fortunately, I love these simple yet decorative bright yellow spots, in particular when they are surprisingly found midst eternal ... Read More
Pine 4.60 - It Flows
Sunday May 30, 2004
Pine, the coniferous email client, gets a number of nice updates and improvements. Pine 4.60 supports format=flowed for better message display, there is now a nice option to quickly re-flow ... Read More
User Questions Mean Great Content for Newsletters
Saturday May 29, 2004
One piece of advice I hear repeatedly is not to give advice you have not been asked for. (I'm not sure if I ever asked for this advice.)
If you are ... Read More
Address Messages Comfortably in Mac OS X Mail
Saturday May 29, 2004
I type a lot, but I also produce a disproportionally large amount of typos. I think it is safe to say the majority of the words I type contain more ... Read More
Find Out How Many Messages an IncrediMail Folder Contains
Friday May 28, 2004
They're nearly everywhere, these bacteria. Depending on your definition of life, they're living creatures. They may cause all kinds of ailments and diseases. They could be an extraterrestrial life form. ... Read More
Email Privacy Bill Passed by Californian Senate
Friday May 28, 2004
The bill formerly known as anti-Gmail has been approved by the California state Senate 28-4.
The bill would prevent email providers from building personally identifiable profiles by scanning
emails and from sharing ... Read More
Foxmail 5.0 - Secure and Filtered
Friday May 28, 2004
Foxmail, the email fox, learns a few new tricks. Foxmail 5.0 includes a learning (though a bit cumbersome) spam filter, it supports S/MIME message security and can access Yahoo! Mail ... Read More
noHTML for Outlook Express - No, Thanks.
Thursday May 27, 2004
The early birds had four wings, say Danish scientists after taking a close look at Archaeopteryx, the legendary flying fossil.
HTML in emails is no fossil, but it has '' and ... Read More
Properly Formatted Email Replies for the Lazy
Thursday May 27, 2004
I've recently used Outlook for all my email for a longer period of time. Since I knew it was impossible to compose replies in a way that has proven very ... Read More
Blue Bird Stationery
Wednesday May 26, 2004
Wherever you look, you'll find a cordon bleu. No matter if you find yourself learning to cook in a cordon blue or cross the Atlantic ocean with a ship carrying ... Read More
New Mail Notifier - Outlook's Got New Mail
Wednesday May 26, 2004
Much to my (and my teachers') regret, I've never been able to remember the proper names for the periods of geological time. And if I knew a name, I had ... Read More
GyazMail 1.2.0 - More Colors, Less Spam
Wednesday May 26, 2004
GyazMail, the "does anybody know what 'gyaz' means?" email client, does not stop getting better. The latest round of updates, leading to GyazMail 1.2.0, brought nice integration with SpamSieve, a ... Read More
Move Folders in The Bat!
Tuesday May 25, 2004
Analysis -› More analysis -› Solutions -› Implementation. That's how you can get your home organized.
If you have already analyzed your folder structure in The Bat! (then analyzed it some ... Read More
Set up Outgoing AOL Email in Any Email Client
Tuesday May 25, 2004
One of the nice things you can do if you use AOL to send an email is unsending it. You can't do that if you send your AOL email using ... Read More
SigChanger - Against Monotony
Monday May 24, 2004
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. (The more things change, the more they stay the same.) French journalist Alphonse Karr signed this famous oxymoronic phrase. And even if ... Read More
IncrediMail Xe Build 1482 - Gets AOL, Cans Spam
Monday May 24, 2004
IncrediMail, the it's better than You've Got Mail and Star Trek combined email client, jumps from version 1358 to 1482. The feature that merits this leap is a simple but ... Read More
Whej Outlook Express Archiver - The Web of Email
Sunday May 23, 2004
If you can turn your kitchen table into a volcano spewing cool red lava, turning the email messages in your Outlook Express folders into web pages is easy:
Whej Outlook Express ... Read More
Dog Days of the Week IncrediMail Letter
Sunday May 23, 2004
Sirius, the brightest star in canis major (big dog), is the brightest star in the night sky overall. It is (or was, before we started lightening the sky during the ... Read More
View the Source of an Email Message in Evolution
Sunday May 23, 2004
A long and sad history of theater fires has turned the theater curtain into an important security device (unfortunately not in Chicago 1903). Usually, it gives way to an amazing ... Read More
Spamgourmet - Spamgourmand
Saturday May 22, 2004
A gourmand, like a gourmet, enjoys good food, but calling somebody a gourmand also insinuates that they enjoy good food a lot.
So Spamgourmet is not just a gourmet, it is ... Read More
Eudora 6.1.1 - Security Fixes
Saturday May 22, 2004
Eudora 6.1.1 has been released to improve security. Not only does this critical upgrade fix a recently reported vulnerability, Eudora 6.1.1 also works to counter a few other potential buffer ... Read More
More Email Addresses Mean More Spam
Friday May 21, 2004
Build it, and they will come.
Build an email address, and the email will come -- maybe not only the right kind of email, though:
Spam behaves a lot like cars. Wherever ... Read More
Set Up a Smart Email Filter in Opera
Friday May 21, 2004
People in a queue are happier and more willing to wait if they see a long line of people behind them (I'm least but not last!).
I bet people are also ... Read More
Set the Default Message Format in Outlook
Thursday May 20, 2004
If we are not satisfied with a default setting, why does it seem we default to not changing the default and override it every time instead? I think I switch ... Read More
Opera M2 7.50 - Less Spam, More RSS
Thursday May 20, 2004
Opera, the web and email aria using a Norwegian formula, now also sings the song of RSS feeds very well. Other notable news in Opera 7.50: faster message search and ... Read More
Old Shack Stationery
Wednesday May 19, 2004
Somewhere in the Swiss Alps and several years ago, I witnessed violent tempests with lightning, thunder and rain, lots of rain. Initially, it was thrilling and frightening and wet, very ... Read More
Every Email Leaves a Permanent Record
Wednesday May 19, 2004
Recently on the tram, I overheard two women talking (and at the same time complaining in an amused way) about a strange correlation: the unsightly things that have somehow -- ... Read More
Turn Off the Message Preview in FastMail
Wednesday May 19, 2004
I don't like previews. I also don't like summaries, excerpts and teasers. You can't have a bit of something. The world known no nuances. "A bit of something" is something ... Read More
Forward a Message with Mozilla or Netscape
Tuesday May 18, 2004
If you want to install something using Windows Installer -- Java, for example -- and get more or less random and randomly mysterious error messages on and on and on ... Read More
SpamGunner 2.0 - Aiming at HTML
Tuesday May 18, 2004
SpamGunner, the spam filter that derives its name from a Scandinavian woman called "Gunnhildr", gets an update that allows it to extract the actual text from HTML emails. This is ... Read More
Mail Watcher 2.8 - Watch, Don't Wait
Monday May 17, 2004
"If you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare." The idea is similar to Nietzsche's finite number of power constellations repeating ... Read More
Insert an Image Inline in an Email with Outlook
Monday May 17, 2004
If you take photos like Inge Morath, you should mail them in style (and maybe in line), too:
If you want to include your photos, sketches or other images in your ... Read More
Take Another Look Before You Send a Message
Sunday May 16, 2004
What do Google and the Lomo Kompakt Automat, originally a Russian clone of a Japanese compact camera produced in St. Petersburg in 1982, have in common? Both have become verbs. ... Read More
Celebrating Flowers Stationery
Sunday May 16, 2004
A few years ago, I tried to learn Czech. Unfortunately, I gave up soon.
Unfortunately, I gave up even before I could discover the enlightening difference between kvetina (flower) and kvet ... Read More
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 - Making Noise
Sunday May 16, 2004
What causes thunder? Lighting, right? No, that's just coincidence. In reality it is the beating of Thunderbird's enormous wings that causes wind and thunder and email to roll:
Mozilla Thunderbird is ... Read More
Autoroute SMTP - Navigation System
Saturday May 15, 2004
It's fascinating to follow the packets from the web sites you visit on their way out of a server farm, around the world, and into your home.
If you travel around ... Read More
Back up or Copy Your IncrediMail Address Book
Saturday May 15, 2004
The internet is probably the best backup system. Your data would be split into small chunks, redundantly distributed to locations across the world, continuously updated and ready for recovery even ... Read More
Specify the Default Signature for an Account in PocoMail
Friday May 14, 2004
Sameness can be a tricky matter. With regard to the relevant category, different email signatures, can be the same:
Sign work emails differently from private messages. Every account in PocoMail can ... Read More
The Unread 1.1 - Tell Me Which Folders You Read...
Friday May 14, 2004
...and I'll tell you who you are.The Unread, your OS X menu bar as a mail announcer, receives an update that comes in as modest a form as The Unread ... Read More
Use a Special Signature for Replies in Outlook
Thursday May 13, 2004
When Edmund Husserl was invited to hold a series of lectures in London, his young assistant, a lad called Martin Heidegger, accompanied the great phenomenologist.
Already on the way to to ... Read More
Group Messages by Thread in Mac OS X Mail
Thursday May 13, 2004
One of the more interesting discussions in history took place between Galilei and other proponents of "modern" science on the one side and classic Aristotelians on the other. What was ... Read More
Coneflower Stationery
Wednesday May 12, 2004
The purple coneflower or Echinacea is not only beautiful, it also seems to have a positive influence on the immune system and helps you deal with colds (maybe not in ... Read More
Use SSL with an Email Account in Mac OS X Mail
Wednesday May 12, 2004
"Secure" means free from care, but if you care for who might intercept your emails, using SSL security is a good (though only first and partial) step:
Receive mail through a ... Read More
Emoticons Mail 3.0 - Incredicons
Wednesday May 12, 2004
Emoticons Mail, the noemotionisanemotiontoo (and deserves an emoticon) tool, now also works with IncrediMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and other web-based email accounts (in Internet Explorer).
Emoticons Mail comes with a big ... Read More
What the Numbers in the Eudora Mailbox Corner Mean
Tuesday May 11, 2004
In medieval numerology, twelve -- 3 (heaven) x 4 (earth) -- is the number of perfection. That's the reason why there are twelve stars on the EU flag, even though ... Read More
Filter Spam Using ISP-Supplied Junk Mail Headers
Tuesday May 11, 2004
Interpretation, says Nietzsche, is what the will to power does. Of course, Nietzsche can easily interpret everything along this interpretation.
I'm just name-dropping, though, limpidly attempting to depict the interpretation of ... Read More
Set the Mac OS X Mail Toolbar to Show Icons Only
Monday May 10, 2004
The language old paintings are written in can be unknown to us regarding them. The figures, objects and landscapes are part of a rich symbolic universe that is different from ... Read More
ICQ 4.0 Lite Edition - Xtra Lite
Monday May 10, 2004
ICQ Lite, the instant messaging client that has always been "beta", now looks a bit like the ICQ home page. The new clutter is not without benefits, though, and gains ... Read More
Add Bcc Recipients in The Bat!
Sunday May 9, 2004
Carbon "provides the fuel for a firework" -- the fuel for an email firework:
Send blind carbon copies (to recipients who will not be listed as receivers in the email) of ... Read More
On the Beach Mother's Day Stationery
Sunday May 9, 2004
Rhea was the sister and wife of Chronos, who, afraid of a revolt, swallowed all their children. But Rhea tricked him into gorging a stone instead of Zeus. That's how ... Read More
Access an AOL Email Account with Outlook Express
Sunday May 9, 2004
It is the rear part of the human tongue that is particularly sensitive to bitter taste. If this taste map was right and you manage to catapult that medicine straight ... Read More
Forward a Message Containing Attachments with Yahoo! Mail
Saturday May 8, 2004
It is Tannin's fondness of binding with ceramics that leaves stains on mugs if you drink green tea. Green tea shows the same attachment when applied to hard drives, which ... Read More
Critical Eudora Vulnerability
Saturday May 8, 2004
Paul Szabo has identified an easily exploitable security hole in Eudora for Windows. Clicking on overly long links in emails can lead to a buffer overflow that crashes Eudora and ... Read More
BlogMatrix Jäger 1.0 - Hungry Hunter's Feeds
Saturday May 8, 2004
In Austria, Switzerland, Germany and parts of Italy, a (Land-)Jäger is a sausage -- a mini salami that doesn't really taste like salami at all. Some people love it, ... Read More
POP Inside Out
Friday May 7, 2004
POP is the classical protocol for mail retrieval. It lacks the baroque exuberance of features and all that jazz found in alternative protocols, but it is solid as a rock ... Read More
Access an AOL Email Account with any IMAP Email Program
Friday May 7, 2004
What do you use to access this web site? Internet Explorer? Firefox? Opera? Safari? w3m? Netscape? OmniWeb? Links? Something completely different?
As long as the sites you visit are reasonably coded, ... Read More
Create a New Message from Stationery in Eudora
Thursday May 6, 2004
Want a template for getting to know a boy, girl, woman or man? Bring a book. (When I do that, I don't have to stare at the wall, at least.)
In ... Read More
Bloglines - Referential
Thursday May 6, 2004
Links are the currency of the web. This is a bit odd if we assume that expensive can be translated to valuable and if what is linked is usually what ... Read More
Mother's Day Swans Stationery
Wednesday May 5, 2004
If you've ever been to Europe (Northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria — that region), you maybe know the little bed-and-breakfast pensions and tiny hotels that have rooms (somewhere on the second ... Read More
Change the Message Priority with One Click in The Bat!
Wednesday May 5, 2004
Recently, the Mayor of Vienna made the first electronic money transfer secured by quantum cryptography using entangled photons. Obviously, security was the priority. It took Anton Zeilinger, his team and ... Read More
Get a Free Email Account for Some Email Anonymity
Wednesday May 5, 2004
Somebody sometime visited a wine château somewhere in France or Germany, I don't really know. In an apparent (and successful) attempt to escape the follow-up calls from the wine makers, ... Read More
The Elements of an Email Address
Tuesday May 4, 2004
The Elements of Style is a thin tome, but thick enough still to contain hundreds of grammatical rules. The elements of nature are but 116, but once in a while ... Read More
SafeMail 1.04 - Backup Wizardry
Tuesday May 4, 2004
According to a recent survey conducted for the Infosec Europe trade show, more than 70% of people would reveal a password if lured with a chocolate bar. A friend of ... Read More
Create a New Message from a Template in Pegasus Mail
Monday May 3, 2004
Denis Papin invented the pressure cooker (called steam digester then) to soft-boil bones. This experiment was not a glaring success itself. It lead to the development of steam engines, though. ... Read More
Teach the Learning Spam Filter in MailWasher
Monday May 3, 2004
What you ate (er, drank) during the first few months of your life has shaped your taste. Babies who got food with a bitter aftertaste learned to like what their ... Read More
Mark All Messages Read in Opera
Sunday May 2, 2004
Reading operas (their libretti) is less idiosyncratic than it may sound. The tragic story of La Bohème is moving even without Puccini's music.
Reading emails in Opera (the web browser) is ... Read More
A Hug for You, Mum! IncrediMail Letter
Sunday May 2, 2004
Hugs make you feel better, they make you better, hugs make you feel and be a better person, they make you and the other better.
A hug sent via email can't ... Read More
ActiveRefresh 2.0 - Memory Master
Sunday May 2, 2004
ActiveRefresh, the whey drink gone RSS feed reader, has seen an update -- an update you will see. Not only is the user interface new, though, ActiveRefresh has also received ... Read More
The Case for Properly Attributing Quotations in Emails
Saturday May 1, 2004
Harvard or Chicago, this is not the question. In emails, the questions is whether you can find out who said what at all:
Do you always know who said what in ... Read More
Change the New Mail Sound in Pegasus Mail
Saturday May 1, 2004
"Moo" is usually onomatopoeic, "quack" just about always, and sometimes even "meow" resembles the sound made by a cat. But how does new mail sound? You decide:
New mail? Sounds good! ... Read More