Well, it finally happened. I’d been telling a client that their email passwords were not strong enough for months, but we’d been unable to nail down a time or strategy to fix it. In a slightly passive aggressive move, every time they asked me to set up a new email address with a simple password I ignored that and used
We get a lot of contact from people who say that at odd times they get a bunch of old emails through- and sometimes multiple times, leading to doubling or tripling of each message. So what to do? First we need to look at how email works between client and server. When you have a POP3 account, your email client
This post isn’t going to be very interesting for most people but it’s the results of a conversation I had online recently about what sort of maintenance to do for a VPS (Virtual Private Server). These things don’t require much manual help, but whatever you don’t watch will eventually fail, so I wanted to come up with some good strategies
There has been some confusion about Mail setup when using our hosted email system, so this tutorial is to assist you in selecting and entering the correct data. We are going to set up a new account with the following credentials Name= New Person Email address = newsperson@servicemax.com.au Password= XXXXXXXXXXXXX First, open Mail and go to Preferences/ Accounts, and
We don’t normally expect to use the word ‘cool’ in conjunction with ‘PDF’ however give me a minute of your time…… this is quite a cool trick! I was entering a race that requires a PDF to be printed, filled in, signed, scanned and emailed and I wondered if there could be a better way. Along comes Preview. Yes, that’s
This article came about because of a client who is overseas. He wrote me an email saying that he couldn’t figure out where all of the space on his MacBook Air SSD had gone. This question doesn’t have a simple answer, so I’m writing this to help him, and everyone else out. Here’s the problem- There are lots of similar
I want to acknowledge the huge help that Andre LeBranche of Apple has been with this issue. You rock! Here’s what we were trying to do- in Lion Server v10.7 Get iCal server to send and receive invitations via email to people not on the local network from a server on a private network (no FQDN) where the clients email
What do you do when your internet connection goes down? Do you sit and twiddle your thumbs until it comes back up? Or do you realise how much it is costing you in lost productivity and yell at people until something is done? Recently my ISP (who shall remain nameless) caused me a great deal of heartache and a
Here’s another little spam prevention tip- The email is most likely using a forged ‘from’ address- meaning it probably does not originate from your machine, or even your network. Someone has found your email address somewhere, created a spam email, and is using your address as the ‘from’ address. Sadly, this is easy to do. If this is the case,
Passwords should evolve -Until we find something better! I was having a look recently at an interesting article on Ars Technica about how a normal guy with no particular hacking skills was able to break some reasonably complex passwords. It’s scary stuff, and should make us all have another look at this aspect of security. I’ve recently been evaluating a free
