Up until today I have never tried to send an executable file via Google’s email service. When I tried that today, it looked at first as if it was not a problem. The file was uploading fine and showing up under attachments in the send message window. When I tried to send the email however, [...]

Categories: Email, Google

One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. If you move away, the operation breaks and you have to start all over again. Background Send is a new Google Mail feature [...]

Categories: Email, Google

More and more I see spam coming from friends when I open my e-mail. In addition to this, people are telling me that they think their e-mail accounts have been hacked. Signs can be friends receiving messages you did not send, mail is marked read that they never saw, settings are changed, or anything else [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Roman messaged me yesterday about a problem one of his friend’s was experiencing. His friend’s Gmail account was more or less at the storage size limit which meant that the friend either needed to buy additional storage from Gmail, or delete emails. Deleting the largest emails in the inbox should free up some space. But [...]

Categories: Email, Google

I have more than 1000 contacts in Google Mail, all people that I know and hold dear. Just kidding. Everyone, and I mean everyone, who send you an email in the past was automatically added to your contacts, as was everyone that you send an email to. That was not really comfortable considering that spammers [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Cloud based email is great. Providers such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail offer web access to their email services that allow users to access their emails from everywhere, provided that they have an Internet connection and compatible web browser at hand. A minority of Gmail users recently noticed that all of their emails were [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you can’t log into your Gmail account this morning it could be because engineers at Google are trying to recover all your emails that they accidentally deleted last night. Some estimates say that as many as half a million Gmail users have had their inboxes wiped as a software bug has reset some accounts.  [...]

Categories: Google

If you’ve used Linux long enough, you know there are some seriously cool tricks you can pull from the command line. Some of these tricks are just for fun, but the vast majority of them actually serve a purpose. It is the latter type of trick I want to highlight here. The purpose they serve [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Lets say you have used the Mozilla Thunderbird client for some time and have decided to move to the cloud, more precisely to Gmail or Google Mail. Question is, how do you get your emails and the folder structure over to Gmail? Sure you could do that manually; Create the folders over at Gmail and [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows