An all-too-common story from New Zealand where someone’s name causes their email to be refused. A somewhat funny email story from New Zealand this weekend shows how email filters have to be configured very carefully. Gay Hamilton sent an innocent customer enquiry to NZ Telecom (the major telco) and was surprised to see the message […]
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a neat explanation of how to ‘accidently’ delete email in Outlook. For a bit of fun, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently explained how you can ‘accidently’ delete emails in Outlook. We’re not getting into the political elements of this — we thought it was funny and […]
Do you know all the email addresses you have available? Remember when you got your first email address? What an exciting time, giving it out to friends and hoping for incoming emails. Even your first spam might have been interesting. These days the problem for many people isn’t one email address but the many they’ve […]
The ‘Privacy’ option at Google Checkout does more than you might expect or want. At Google Checkout (Google’s online payment option) you’ll see an option like this: ‘Keep my email address confidential. Google will forward all email from to ‘. This option creates an email alias (eg ‘some_long_string_of_letters_and_numbers@checkout.google.com’ ) which is re-directed to your normal […]
What happens if you need to access webmail for someone who has died? And what should you do to prepare? An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald about access to email accounts after the account holder dies. This caught Peter’s eye because in a previous decade (pre-email) he worked in managing the assets and […]
