Questions tagged [email-client]
Any program used to view email, excluding web clients.
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
I sent a sensitive email with an attachment to the wrong email address. Is there a way to invalidate (or pull back) this email and the attachment remotely? The email was sent out via the aol.com email ...
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Reorder email accounts in Thunderbird
If you have more email accounts in Thunderbird, the accounts are shown in the order of creation.
Now I added a new account and it is shown at the bottom of the list.
How do I change the order of my ...
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How can I graph the # of emails I receive per day
Ideally I'd like to do this in Outlook.
I'd like to find a way to look at the # of emails I get in my inbox for each day. This does not have to be real time.
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Is there a simple way to synchronize Thunderbird across machines?
I love Firefox Sync. Is there a similar way to synchronise Thunderbird?
I want to synchronise account settings, filters and address books. I never download e-mails, so this isn't an issue. There is ...
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Modern vertical layout for Thunderbird?
It's weird that I haven't been able to find relevant information anywhere. Basically what I want is a modern vertical layout for the inbox of Thunderbird. That is to say, the message sender and ...
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Is it possible to perform a HTTP POST from a HTML email?
If I receive an email in any email client be it Outlook, GMail, etc and the email contains a link to a website, is it possible to perform a POST request to the website as opposed to a GET request?
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how to use vim to manage and send emails
I would like to use vim/gvim as tool for mail managent and I found these 2 interesting pages.
claws
vmail
I understood that these suffer from the following limitations
with vmail you can see and ...
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What is this red X icon showing in Thunderbird?
I just noticed this icon I have never seen before in Thunderbird and I am wondering what it is:
Hovering over it doesn't tell me anything. Can anyone provide any insight?
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Unix mail command: Sort by newest first
When I use the "mail" command, it prints a list of messages in my inbox in a format like this: 1 Super User Mon Jun 9 17:13 86/4716 Complete Registration With Stack Exchange However I've ...
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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?
when installing msmtp under Debian/Ubuntu, which package should I choose, msmtp or msmtp-mta? what's the differences between them?
All the help articles I read install msmtp only, but isn't msmtp-...
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Workaround for adding forward addresses to Gmail as aliases
I went to add an alias to a forwarded address (managed by GoDaddy, ie [email protected]) in Gmail, and I noticed that Google changed their system. In the past, after you entered the name and email ...
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Are the Comments and Keywords header fields in IMF (RFC 5322) actually used? [closed]
Internet Message Format (IMF) is specified by RFC 5322. It defines a variety of header fields, such as To, From, and Subject.
It also defines the Comments header field and the Keywords header field.
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Can I make a shortcut to Send Outlook Email from Template?
Using the information provided here, I was able to successfully create an email template and send a message using this template.
However, using this template is quite cumbersome - one must go to New ...
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Maximum capacity of a Thunderbird account?
I know someone who has lots of emails in a Thunderbird account. One day Thunderbird stopped receiving emails and asks the user to either delete or compress old emails to make more space. Unfortunately,...
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Gnus: get rid of ~/Mail and ~/News folders
Gnus (Emacs's mail client) creates directories ~/Mail/ and ~/News. I don't want to clutter my home folder, how can i change this directories to, say, ~/.emacs.d/mail/ and ~/.emacs.d/news/?
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Email client for Linux which can store GPG messages decrypted
Is there any graphical email client for Linux which can store GPG messages decrypted? I have tried Thunderbird with Enigmail and Evolution but if I'm right none of them support this.
(I know that ...
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Thunderbird disable remote content warning for HTML email
In Thunderbird version 12.01, is there a way to disable the remote content warning that appears in situations such as: when an HTML email wants to load images hosted online?
I expected that the ...
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Is it possible to edit the "pick a new color" values in Outlook?
In Outlook I'm a fan of the "Pick a new color when replying or forwarding" option, as each reply getting its own color helps me with tracking/rereading complex conversations.
The one thing I don't ...
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What is an e-mail client?
What is an e-mail client? Why might I need one? If I am sending e-mail, I log on to my service provider (e.g. Yahoo!) directly. Where does an e-mail client fit in in this scenario?
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read localhost e-mail with thunderbird
What would be simplest IMAP server allow Thunderbird to read messages to user@localhost for Ubuntu Linux?
My assumption was that if mailutils could read mail with the "mail" command then IMAP or POP ...
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Script ThunderBird filters
Is it possible to write your own filters for Thunderbird, I don't care what language is used.
I want to be able to do a full analysis of the email (headers and text) and take certain actions based on ...
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Windows 10 default mail app - how to mark all unread as read?
Trying to enjoy Windows 10 on my ElitePad 900 tablet.
Have been searching for this and have not found any solution. So the idea is to mark all unread mails as read ones. Is there a shortcut key or ...
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Why mail clients do not use directly the SMTP server of recipient
Normally in a email client you need to configure an SMTP server to use to send mails.
When you send a mail, your configured SMTP server simply resolve the domain after the @at in the email address of ...
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Outlook hangs on emails that have images with invalid network paths
At first I thought this could be an isolated problem, but several email from different sources are presenting the same problem. Whenever the email contains an (AFAIK malformed) youtube thumbnail URI, ...
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Windows 8’s Mail application does not support TLS/STARTTLS for IMAP accounts?
The built-in Mail application does not seem to support TLS using STARTTLS for IMAP on standard IMAP port 143. This is the only option my email server offers, and it works for every other email client ...
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Multiple mail server provider for one domain is possible?
I have searched in google before asking here. I got a mixed answer in google.
Can i have a multiple MX record from different mail providers?
Example,
Zoho Mail
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Sending emails in Pine (Alpine) with underline, emphasis
I would like to send emails via Pine (Alpine) but with correct style usage, for instance, underlining book names, etc. How can I create emails in Pine using underline, emphasis, etc. (This can include ...
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Why does Outlook 2010 show duplicate Tasks in the To-Do list?
I am running Outlook 2010 (64bit). Every task in my To-Do list is duplicated. If I 'complete' one task, the second copy also marks as complete. If I flag an email to be added to the task list, 2 ...
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How come the machine name shows up in the email header?
All of the mails I send out arrive with the following header:
Received: from My-iMac (12.12.12.12 [12.12.12.12]) by mx.mail.com
How come my machine name My-iMac shows up? Is it because of my mail ...
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Is there a way to get mail from /var/mail in a different client?
Many Linux systems store mail for users in /var/mail. Is there some way I can fetch that mail using my preferred email client?
(I use Apple Mail on OS X Lion, but if there's way to do this that works ...
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How to create a rule for a contact group/distribution list in order to move emails to a certain folder for Outlook 2013?
I created a rule for a contact group/distribution list in order to move emails to a certain folder. It works without any problems. Let's call this group 'distgroup'.
However, for some emails that ...
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Thunderbird with external editors possible?
The known add-on external editor says it is compatible with Thunderbird 5. But the latest Thunderbird is version 31.1.0 already. Is it still usable? Or is there any other add-on that can enable ...
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Any file-based email client application? (With the purpose of putting the mailbox under VCS.)
Like Subversion which has two back-end types: BDB-based and File-based. Most email applications I seen are using database back-end, but the database is not so convenient to manipulate by end-user.
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How is Thunderbird protecting my privacy?
For emails that have pictures, Thunderbird doesn't display the pictures, saying that it's protecting my privacy.
How is it protecting my privacy by not displaying pictures? Pictures are things I am ...
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How to add Windows 10 Mail app to the startup?
There is a tutorial here but it didn't work for me.
I mean I cannot add a Mail shortcut to my StartUp folder by dragging and dropping. Is there any other way?
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How to set time based rules in Outlook [duplicate]
My employer sends out lots of internal marketing and "aren't we great" emails that I don't read. I currently have a rule which moves the emails sent by the worst offenders to a CompanyName Spam folder ...
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Lightweight Alternative to Outlook Mail Client? [closed]
Frankly, I can't run Outlook. I have to keep my computer lean since I run my developer tools in a VM and the 20+ threads it spins up by default is just killer. This means I only read my work emails ...
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How to send a message in Thunderbird that is in your outbox?
I'm composing some emails up now but I don't wish to send them just yet, so I am going to File > Send Later to send them to the outbox.
Now I opened the message in the outbox but I see no option ...
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Avatar in emails and contact details
My email client (eM Client) shows some of my contacts with an avatar against their name.
I have asked eM Client support how I can add one for myself, so that other people see my avatar when they view ...
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Are there any web based IMAP clients out there
I would love to be able to stop using application based email clients and move completely to the web for my email. The problem is the webmail clients for my job suck compared to Gmail. Is there ...
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How to get rid of the red outlines around signature in Thunderbird when sending message?
I've just added a new signature in Thunderbird and when I go to send a new message it has a bunch of red lines around the layout of the signature, probably because it's within a html table.
Now I ...
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Change Windows 10 "from" address for Gmail
I have just upgraded to Windows 10. In Win7 I would usually use Gmail in the browser. I use Gmail to send emails on behalf of my own domain name (so I have a Gmail address, but it sends from my ...
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How to export email addresses from Apple Mail?
When sending an email to someone in Apple Mail it remembers their address, so if you try and send another email to them it'll prompt you with it - even if you haven't added them to the address book.
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How to know undisclosed-recipients in outlook?
I have received the mail with undisclosed-recipients, How can i see the same?
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Using Thunderbird and gmail, sent items appear as unread in "All Mail"
I'm using a gmail account in Thunderbird. When I send a message, a new mail notification appears (sound and system try icon), an unread message appears in the gmail All Mail folder, and the account ...
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Emails deleted from iPhone are still visible in Thunderbird
I have Thunderbird 9.0.1 and iOS MobileMail.app (iPhone 4S) connected to the same IMAP account on a Dovecot server.
When I delete emails from Thunderbird, they no longer show up on the iPhone. So ...
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How to undo moving a message to an archive in Thunderbird?
In Thunderbird you can archive a message if you hit a.
For example, in the Mail app on macOS there is an option to undo the last action including archiving.
Is it possible to do the same in ...
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How do you stop downloading the spam folder with a Gmail account?
How do I force my email client (eM Client) to stop downloading emails in the spam folder of my Gmail account?
Is there a way to permanently delete spam from the server before they get sent to my spam ...
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ISP mail server blocking me?
I'm currently writing an email client for fun/practice and I've noticed that after sending out a handful of test emails (10 or so) over a short period of time, the emails stop going through. At some ...
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How can I mark a message as new in Alpine?
While looking at a list of emails in Alpine, I inadvertently entered a message I wished to save for later reading. The "N" marking the message as new disappeared, of course. I'd like to mark it new ...
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