I’m moving domains around to different servers. Last night I moved mag-sol.com. Except I did a spectacularly bad job of it. Oh, I moved the web site. And the subdomains. But I completely forgot that mag-sol.com is where all of my mail ends up (even if it’s sent to dave.org.uk). So I forgot to set… Continue reading Broken Email
Category: email
Patricia Hewitt
I’ve seen some cheeky 419 mail in my time, but this one (which arrived over the weekend) is the first that claims to be from a British MP and former minister. Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 5:06:03 +1000 [31/08/07 20:06:03 BST] From: “phewitt@parliament.gov.uk” <saleimh1@bigpond.net.au> Reply-To: patriciahewitt1992@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Patricia Hewitt MP Dear Friend, I got your… Continue reading Patricia Hewitt
Inheriting Email Addresses
Have you ever inherited an email address? It’s a very strange experience and it’s happened three times to me. The first time was when I worked at a small dotcom company and was given the address dave@small-dotcom.co.uk. It turned out that the same address had been used by a former employee who had left some… Continue reading Inheriting Email Addresses
Why Spam Is Out Of Control
Very worrying article in today’s Guardian technology section. We all know that spam levels are constantly increasing but this article says that 91% of email is now spam. It then goes on to put at least some of the blame on the people who connect completely unprotected PCs to the internet. These PCs then get… Continue reading Why Spam Is Out Of Control
Filtering Spam
A few months ago I changed the way my email server works. Instead of using POP3 to download the mail and then filtering it on the client side using procmail, I configured the system to filter the mail on the server side so that I could read mail using IMAP. At some point during that… Continue reading Filtering Spam
SIDStore are Spammers
(This is me using what limited Googlejuice this site has to get personal revenge) Last June I bought a t-shirt from SIDStore. It was a nice t-shirt. It had a dalek on it. Here’s a picture of me wearing the t-shirt. I was happy with my purchase. All was well with the world. Of course,… Continue reading SIDStore are Spammers
Bad Bulk Email From ft.com
Here’s a good example of how not to run a bulk email list. Some time ago I registered with the Financial Times web site. At that time I must have given them my email address. But I’m certain that I wouldn’t have ticked any boxes marked “send me email”. I never tick those boxes and… Continue reading Bad Bulk Email From ft.com
Replying To Email
Recently I’ve been getting more and more annoyed with people who don’t know the difference between the “reply” and “reply all” buttons in their email programs. You get an email from a friend that goes to a group of people. Perhaps it’s about arranging to meet up for a drink. You hit “reply all” and… Continue reading Replying To Email
Basic Bulk Email
People seemed interested in my recent post about basic password handling so I thought I’d write another similar post. This time we’ll look at another example of basic customer interaction that so many people get wrong – sending bulk email. Note that I’m not a lawyer, so this doesn’t cover any of the legal stuff… Continue reading Basic Bulk Email
Gmail
I just noticed that the number of Gmail invitations that I’ve got to give away has doubled to 100. If you want an invitation and I know who you are, then just send me an email and I’ll fire one off to you.