Many service providers have started encrypting the statements that they send you. While at some level, it does add some amount of security when the path to your inbox is not very secure. However, it is sometimes a major pain when you want to archive your emails. This is because every provider has decided on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'email'
One liner to convert Maildir/ to mbox using mutt
January 7th, 2009 · Comments · General
If .news/ is the maildir that you want to convert to the mbox news, this one-liner will do the job for you.
mutt -f .news/ -e ’set confirmcreate=no; set delete=no; push “T.*<enter>;snews<enter><quit>”‘
(Gleaned from this mailing list post )
My first 419 mail in hindi!
June 21st, 2008 · Comments · General
My first 419 mail in hindi!, originally uploaded by Sandip Bhattacharya.
Came to the moderator address of ILUGD. Interestingly, it was sent from a gmail account but asks you to mail to an yahoo account instead.
Forwarding jokes, are you?
July 3rd, 2007 · Comments · General
Stop! I get too many forwarded jokes on my mail/cell already.
And then there are those valiant souls who take upon them the moral responsibility of their entire generation by laboriously collecting snippets on a daily basis from all their “sources”, taking care day after day that their “friends” don’t miss any of the gems. As [...]
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Yeah, and a J to you too!
June 12th, 2007 · Comments · General
I finally figured out why I kept seeing a mysterious “J” frequently in mails. I use Thunderbird, and it never struck me that what was common between all these mails is that they are all from Outlook users. It seems that in all its wisdom, Outlook converts any smileys (like : – ) ) in [...]
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Gmail’s crazy dot-in-your-email-address policy
December 15th, 2005 · Comments · General
According to this Gmail FAQ,
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations.
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If you created your account with a dot in your username and you wish you hadn’t, you can change your ‘Reply-to address.’
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Please note that to log in [...]
