I upgraded my Bat client this morning to version 2 after I realised it had been out (lots of months) and was pleasantly suprised to see that there was a 30% discount until 10th January on the Christmas edition so I got a bargain. It looks nicer and I’m glad to say that the autocheck of accounts works on my xp installation (which it never did on my 98 or w2k installation)

After rebuilding the server at home, I had loads of unread, spam email in one of my pop mailboxes and didn’t really want to download and delete them with the mail client.POP3 Internet Mail Retriever came to the rescue by selecting all messages and deleting all.

Just downloaded the latest version of popcorn to see if it would stop trying to be the emailserver that I am trying to send to. (when it sends email it sends the command EHLO mail.domain.com if my mail server is mail.domain.com). This causes problems for pipex (unsuprisingly). However the latest versions are no longer freeware, but shareware in that you have to register it if you want to use multiple pop accounts. Thats a big shame as that is what I use popcorn for. So its back to the older 2001 version.

According to the spam email I’ve received from hotmail staff, hotmail is getting a new look later this month and I can click a link to see a preview….All clicking on the link gives me is the same page telling me about a preview…so sneaky even I can’t see it.
Update You need ie to view it which is why nothing happened in Firebird.

I often have a requirement to send emails from an address that is not really mine. Normally this is used for testing relays or sending unsubscribe messages to mailing lists on behalf of people who have left the company or have got on a mailing list they can’t get off. Exchange is really helpful in that it insists you can only use your real email address to send with in Outlook. Blat is a useful command that I use when writing batch files, but its not very useful for sending quick emails as a user. QuickSend from Xtreme Webware does the trick and enables me to send emails by specifying the to,from and email server that I want to send mail to. Works a treat.

I was trying to find this on my work computer after reading about it at home but couldn’t find it anywhere. it’s a 500kb email client. Great for putting on a usb disk (or floppy for those woefully behind the times) and checking email whereever you are. I’ve had a VERY quick play with MemeCode’s Scribe and will use it more when I’m back in the office on Thursday.

GFI have updated their Email Anti Virus and Security Testing Zone with some more checks for recent vulnerabilities. Well worth a scan on your exchange server (as long as you have the approval of your administrator as some of these tests may trigger security notifications). I’ll be testing our server tomorrow morning.

Our remote site got an error message when trying to pull their email from a remote server which said “Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition mode. A quick call to the isp (suprisingly quick actually) and everything was working. Being curious I searched on the error message and it looks like the mail file was corrupt and the first line needed to be changed to be
From: fred@asdadsasd
Thanks to unix managers mailing list

It made the news on several places when email was banned at Phones4U. Seeing as though its a phone company you would have thought they’d have rung each other up anyway! Apparently the boss reckons they waste too much time being tied to email so he’s banned internal emails. From what I’ve seen from the emails that have been sent to me by someone working there (he no longer works there) most of the emails are likely to be funny jokes and flash cartoons and links to more of the same on web pages. It will be interesting to see if they move towards Instant Messaging – something we are looking at, informally, at the office with remote users starting to use it to communicate instead of email.