January 23, 2014
The last 6-8 months have been pretty hectic for me, both at work and with other “real life” stuff and I’ve noticed, as a result, that my email handling has really suffered. I can’t even say it’s begun to suffer because it’s entirely snowballed …
December 28, 2013
So, playing around with MailMate I’ve found you can create keyboard shortcuts. It comes with a standard keyboard shortcut list, one for Postbox (a Thunderbird-based email client), and Gmail. My main need here to is to map “delete” to “Archive …
December 28, 2013
To begin with, I liked Apple Mail in Mountain Lion (and Lion also). I’ve been using Apple Mail for a while now for my personal email on my mac, and mutt for my work email on my Fedora box. It works well, and I’ve gotten used to using a GUI for my personal email and …
April 29, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Upload your old email to Google Apps. If you have a Google Apps account, rather than a GMail account, you can use the Google Email Uploader tool to upload old/existing emails from a local client to Google Apps. This is great if you want to have …
January 4, 2010
Ran into an issue today where I needed to convert a Maildir containing over 50k messages to mbox format and couldn’t really find any good tools. So I found this blog post about using mutt to do it. Unfortunately, it converted one Maildir to another. =( One crucial piece is …
October 28, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Keep IMAP email messages locally using OfflineIMAP. OfflineIMAP is an extremely cool program that lets you treat IMAP mail as local with two-way synchronization. Works awesome with mutt and allows you to keep a local copy of stuff for grepping or …
January 22, 2009
Well, due to some changing circumstances, I decided I’d try to get a better handle on my email and maybe move to using IMAP instead of downloading all my mail. There are some really irritating reasons why this is a bad idea (in my case). Google’s use of labels is …
November 18, 2008
This week’s TechMail is Use Dovecot for POP3/IMAP services which discusses how to setup and use Dovecot to provide POP3 and IMAP services. I’ve become quite the fan of Dovecot after having used it for a while; I used to use Courier-IMAP for the longest time and much …
July 2, 2008
And finally, this last week’s Techmail was Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system which discusses using eSMTP to send email instead of setting up a full-blown postfix or exim or whatever server.
June 17, 2008
Has anyone encountered this, or more specifically, know how to fix it? I’m using gmail to host my linsec.ca mail, and accessing it via POP3 (fetchmail->procmail->mutt). When I send mail out, I send it out via gmail’s SMTP server. The problem is that I never see …
January 28, 2008
A friend of mine has moved his domains over to Google mail, which can now do full domain support for email amongst their other appliances. Standard edition is free, but the premier edition is fairly pricy ($50USD per year per email account). So I signed up for the standard …
December 18, 2007
This week’s TechRepublic tip is Filter for unwanted mail and mailing lists with procmail, which goes into procmail recipes a little more in depth than last week’s tip (size restraints on these tips sucks sometimes, so we end up with two-parters). Shows how to build …
December 13, 2007
This week’s techmail is Filter mail with powerful procmail, a brief introduction to using procmail. For those who don’t get to use procmail, I feel sorry for you. Procmail is the best filtering system for email, bar none.
December 4, 2007
Today’s TechMail is Get more e-mail flexibility with Fetchmail, which discusses the use of fetchmail. It doesn’t go into too much depth, more of a primer on fetchmail than anything. I think an upcoming tip will discuss procmail a little bit more.
September 25, 2007
This week’s TechMail is Getting things done with mutt, a look at using the GTD concepts with my favourite email client.
August 31, 2007
Well, I’ve decided to try and take the plunge and implement some GTD philosophies in my life. While it encompasses a lot of different things, the first thing I aim to try is to reclaim my email, which has been getting way out of hand lately. I remember about 2 years ago I …