How to spammers fill their databases with email addresses? They usually buy them in bulk from companies that acquire them by other means. Other means can mean running search bots that crawl websites on the Internet to find new email addresses but also illegal methods like hacking into databases to retrieve all email addresses. You [...]
Gmail POP3 Configuration
I received several emails lately that asked me how to setup email clients so that they could retrieve Gmail emails using the POP3 protocol. The Gmail POP3 configuration is fortunately not that complex: The major problem that most users run into is that POP3 has to be enabled in the Gmail web interface before they [...]
Change The Thunderbird Reply Email Layout
Whenever a Thunderbird user replies to an email a default layout is being used to add information like the original authors name and email contents to the reply. Some users might want to change some of the elements that are added automatically. This can be for example useful if the user wants the replies to [...]
Outlook Express Email Recovery
Mail Cure is a portable software application for the Windows operating system that has been designed to recover accidentally deleted email messages. Unlike other email recovery tools Mail Cure does not only look for existing mail databases and emails but does scan the free space of the hard drive for traces of mailboxes or deleted [...]
Thunderbird 3 Beta 2
The Thunderbird email client team is making progress. They released Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 yesterday for public download. Interested users should keep in mind that this is a beta version of the email client. It feels very stable but it can still produce bugs that might delete things unrecoverably. It is therefor not suggested to [...]
Send SMS Messages When Emails Arrive
GSN SMS Notifier is a free software program that can be used to send SMS messages if emails arrive in a specified account. The software application currently supports both POP3 email accounts and Gmail which can both be configured in the interface. The SMS messages will be send using either ICQ or Skype. Sending SMS [...]
Automatic CC Emails In Thunderbird
The email client Thunderbird does not provide an option to automatically send specific emails to a CC or BCC email address. While home users normally do not need that feature it might be required to send all email correspondence to a supervisor or different department in the company that you are working for. It can [...]
