Email, Acronyms, and You: The Different Ways that Email Gets Delivered

With email becoming nearly as common as television and cellular phones, it’s easy to send and receive emails every day without giving any thought to what’s going on behind the scenes. While it’s tempting assume technology just works, there are in fact three standard methods used to deliver email. Furthermore, the method you use for [...]

Hi, I am both a Mac and a PC

Lately, both Apple and Microsoft have really ramped up their ads claiming superiority in the computing world.  However, as much as Microsoft and Apple bash each other, they still both make their flagship applications compatible with one another. Windows makes their excellent Office Suite for Mac and Apple has a version of both their web [...]

Bulk email or Spam? How to Send Email Blasts and Newsletters and Avoid Blacklisting

So you need to send out a newsletter, and you have an email list containing hundreds or thousands of addresses. Before you hit send, there are several things you should consider that could save you a lot of headaches down the line. While your email isn’t  technically “spam”, it is bulk mail, and in order [...]

Mailbox Maintainence – Keeping Your Mail Application Running Quickly

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Did you know that when it comes to slowness in Entourage and Outlook, it is usually not because of the size of your mailbox but because of the number of emails you have?

It’s true;  it isn’t the size of the mailbox that impacts performance, it is the number of items in the folder [...]