Mail.app leaves some deleted messages lying around?
After my transition from Mail.app to Thunderbird today, I discovered that quite a few messages that I had deleted long ago in Mail.app had reappeared in Thunderbird. Here's my theory of how it happened...
View ArticleAn open letter to Shawn Casey
Even the big boys sometimes shoot themselves in the foot. Something Shawn Casey is doing is hurting his email deliverability and probably his response rates, and while I know why he's doing it, there...
View ArticleConfused Spammer Blames It All On Messed Up Childhood
I've noticed something a little odd in the spam I've been getting lately. The message begins "Hello! I'm bored tonight. I am nice girl that would like to chat...". So far so, uh, bad -- nothing unusual...
View ArticleAWeber’s Most Irritating Problems
AWeber is a great service, and for the most part I'm very happy with it. But it does have a few irritating problems. Here's my list of the worst. Have any pet peeves that aren't listed? Share them in...
View ArticleIs One Of These IP Addresses Yours?
Ever wonder just how much of a problem spam email is? To give you an idea, here in no particular order are the 1,231 IP addresses from which my email server received at least 3 messages sent to invalid...
View ArticleAnybody Wanna Join Me In A “Day Without Email” (SMTP)?
I've had it! This morning I could barely connect to my server because it was so overrun with bounces of spam sent by people spoofing my email addresses (ie. spammers sending email with an email address...
View ArticleDay Without Email: What If I Can’t Shut My Mail Server Down?
Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we'd all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn't send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn't get...
View ArticleAWeber Bugs Again
For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they've got a few really irritating problems. Here's my latest gripe. About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my...
View ArticleGMail Marks Own Message As SPAM!
Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I'd specified. That email address forwards everything...
View ArticleHow Very Ironic of You, SpamArrest…
I got another of those emails from SpamArrest today asking me to verify that one of the emails to my mailing list wasn't spam. This time, something on SpamArrest's website struck me as ironic, if not...
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