Questions tagged [email]
Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.
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What is the "You have new mail" message in Linux/UNIX?
Sometimes, when I log into a box and 'su' to root, I get a cute little message saying I have mail (thank GOD it's not AOL).
Where is this mail?
What does it contain?
Who/What sent it?
How important ...
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Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work? [closed]
Most of the time when I see someone post their email address online, especially if it's a personal address, they use something like
me [at] example [dot] com
instead of the actual email address (me@...
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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?
Any idea why my Mac terminal says:
You have mail in /var/mail/lofye
How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?
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How can I find out where an email really came from?
How can I know where an email really originated from? Is there any way to find it out?
I have heard about email headers, but I don't know where can I see email headers, for example in Gmail. Any ...
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Why is the size of my email about a third bigger than the size of its attached files?
When attaching data to my emails, I noticed that Thunderbird calculates the total size of the resulting email as much bigger than the files I attached.
Here's a recent example: two images, one at ...
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One GnuPG/PGP key pair, two emails?
I have two emails I use frequently, for both of which I'd like to use PGP keys generated/managed by GnuPG. I'd like to avoid creating a different key pair for each email, if possible, as that's ...
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Email sent to me is addressed to [email protected]. How is this done?
I was recently sent a scam email, and for giggles I opened it up to read it. Very plain, and not much effort thrown in.
I noticed something peculiar; this email was not addressed to me.
At first, I ...
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Why do I need an SMTP server?
Why do I need an intermediate SMTP server to send mail? Why can’t my client (Outlook, Thunderbird) send messages directly to the recipient’s SMTP domain?
For example, if I have to send an email to ...
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What's the difference between cc and To fields in e-mail?
In most email clients you can send an e-mail to multiple recipients in the To: field by separating addresses by a semicolon.
You can also use CC to send a copy to other people. Is there any ...
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Can I create a link to a specific email message in Outlook?
I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don't want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my ...
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Can Mozilla Thunderbird show sent replies in threaded view?
I would like for Thunderbird to show replies to threaded messages in with the received messages. Is this possible, even with an extension?
The desired behavior would be something like how Zimbra's ...
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Tell Thunderbird not to truncate or wrap lines when sending email
When I compose and send an email (I always write plain-text emails) in Thunderbird, it always truncates my sentences and adds line breaks in the middle of my sentences.
How do I turn this feature ...
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Breaking the Outlook 2010 e-mail blue quote line for inline responses
UPDATE:
I've finally figured out a way to comprehensively fix this problem, though it took a lot of work and the creation of an Outlook 2010 addin! See below for the addin download. As far as I'm ...
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What is the email address format "Name <email>" called?
Given an email address in the format
John Doe <[email protected]>
I wonder where this format is explicitly defined and what the whole thing is called. It doesn't seem to be specified in rfc5322 (...
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View full message headers on Outlook 2011 for Mac
How can I view the full headers of a message with Outlook 2011 for Mac?
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Why does Google call Thunderbird "less secure"?
I've never had problems using Gmail with Thunderbird yet, but while trying to use a free software client for Google Talk/Chat/Hangout I've discovered that, according to Google's document on "less ...
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How do I get Thunderbird to open an ICS attachment directly in Lightning's calendar?
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1 with Lightning 1.1.1. Is there an easier way to import an ICS file attached to an email than saving it to disk, then in Calendar going to File --> Open?
If I ...
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How can you fake an email address?
Recently someone asked me whether an email she received was spam. It seemed to be from a well-known bank (Belfius.be) in Belgium. It stated that some information was outdated and that it needed ...
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How to force the Outlook rule to be server-side?
Using Outlook 2010 with a corporate Exchange Server.
The rule I want to create is this:
After rule arrives from [email protected]
and with Passed in the subject
Move it to the SuccessBuilds ...
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How can an e-mail get lost?
It happened to me yesterday.
Someone claimed she sent me an e-mail, but I did not get it.
It's not in Inbox, Spam, Trash, etc.. it's nowhere.
How is this possible (assuming there is no user error)?
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
My wife's email account was hacked and the attacker got her address book. I don't know if the attack was on her local email client (Thunderbird running on Windows 7) or on the server (hosted at ...
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How can I get Thunderbird to check subfolders on IMAP?
I have Thunderbird set up to use my Gmail account through IMAP. All works well and good, except for one problem:
I have a group of gmail mail filters set up to redirect mail into different labels ...
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Extract/save a mail attachment using bash
Using normal bash tools (ie, built-ins or commonly-available command-line tools), is it
possible, and
how
to extract/save attachments on emails?
For example, say I have a nightly report which ...
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How can clients easily and securely send me passwords? [closed]
I often need to get passwords from clients for FTP, SSH, MySQL, Authorize.net, etc.
What's an easy way for them to send me passwords securely? Maybe even without them needing a login/password?
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How do I enable internet-style quoting in Outlook Web Access?
How can I enable internet-style quoting in Outlook Web Access? I have found several guides on how to enable it in Outlook but not a single one on Outlook Web Access. We are running version 8.1.
I ...
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Apple Mail doesn't apply rules unless I choose "Apply Rules" manually
I'm using Apple Mail with IMAP account. I have several filtering rules defined. The problem is that Mail doesn't apply them automatically to incoming email. Even spam isn't filtered automatically.
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What does it mean to "subscribe" to an IMAP folder?
I'm using Thunderbird with Gmail IMAP and there's this "Subscribe" option for folders. What does that mean?
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How to copy all email addresses from an email in Thunderbird
Is there a way to automatically copy all the email addresses from an email's To, Cc, Bcc headers etc in Thunderbird? I am currently right clicking and doing "Copy Email Address" for each one but this ...
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Thunderbird "undo send" feature (like in Gmail)?
I was wondering if there exists a thunderbird addon that gives similar functionality as Google's "undo send" feature? This basically just delays the sent message for a few seconds allowing the user ...
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How can I export all email addresses I have sent to from Outlook or any other Email Client?
I would like to export a list of email addresses of people I have previously sent mail to. I don't think there is a way to do this without an add-in.
I tried a tool called Gwabbit and it did not do ...
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Why did I get an e-mail with a nonsensical header?
I recently got an e-mail with the title
=?utf-8?B? 8J+QtiBZb3UncmUgYSBzdHJvbmcgY2FuZGlkYXRlIGZvciBvdXIgZnV0dXJlLCBQZXRlciDwn4e6 8J+HuA==?=
Thinking it might be malware, I ran a check with ...
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Why is base64 needed (aka why can't I just email a binary file)?
I was reading up on Base64 encoding, and found this on Wikipedia:
Base64 encoding schemes are commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs be stored and transferred over ...
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Is there a wildcard for setting up an Outlook 2007 rule?
I would like to create a rule that moves anything with the words SUCCESS * BenchmarkResults, where the * indicates a wildcard to a specific folder. We have multiple systems that will be put in place ...
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Utility for extracting MIME attachments [closed]
I am looking for a command-line tool for Unix (ideally, available in a Debian / Ubuntu package) for extracting all MIME parts from a multipart email message (or the body from a singlepart with an ...
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Why use both Dovecot and Postfix?
Just out of curiosity, there are dozens / hundreds of tutorials helping you setup a dovecot - postfix mail server. On the surface, both of them are email servers, why use both? Mail servers are ...
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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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Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?
I was messing around with sendmail in Rails a year ago and have had this message popping up in the terminal after every command ever since:
You have new mail in /var/mail/Lance
How do I properly ...
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Could "[email protected]" be a valid email address?
I study regex and faced a question: could an email address like [email protected] be valid?
Sure there is the valid username, but what about domain?
Should it be domain name only or is host ip ...
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Send a single HTML email from Thunderbird, overriding the default "plain text" setting
I do not like HTML emails. Because of that, I've set my Thunderbird to compose emails as plain text.
But, in some rare cases, I have to send an HTML email, e.g.:
Hi Your Majesty, the button you ...
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How to read email received on a Debian server
I have a VPS (virtual private server) running Debian Linux. When I login using PuTTY the console shows - "You have mail"
I have no idea on how to retrieve this email. Which software do I need to ...
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How do I view raw email headers in Outlook 2010?
Is it possible to view raw / complete email headers in Outlook 2010?
In Outlook 2007 you could go to View > Options, or right click on a message, then select Options, and "Internet Headers" could be ...
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Outlook 2013 not showing emails older than aprox. 6months old in any folders
I migrated a VP of our company to Office 365 and now he's not seeing emails in folders that there should be. The problem seems to affect all folders but only emails after about 6-12 months old.
Other ...
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How to prove that an email has been sent?
I have a dispute on my hands in which the other party (landlord's real estate agent) dishonestly claims to not have received an email that I truly did send.
My questions is, what are the ways to ...
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What are the differences between POP3 and IMAP?
Many email providers ask me if I'm interested in using POP3, or IMAP. What exactly are these and when should I consider using them?
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Is there an email address equivalent of “/dev/null?”
I'm searching for an equivalent of a sinkhole email address. Essentially, I need a discard mechanism similar to /dev/null or the non-routed range 240.0.0.0/4.
Options like null@, devnull@, or none@ ...
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How does S/MIME differ from PGP/GPG, for the purpose of signing and/or encrypting email?
In addition to the titular question, are the two technologies compatible? If so, under what circumstances?
What are the relative benefits of the two technologies?
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Is BCCing e-mails guaranteed to be reliable?
In other words is it a safe assumption that no-one of recipients will ever see e-mails in BCC? What if the recipient is an administrator of his (but not sender's) mail server and can do any ...
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How to save all images embedded in email in Thunderbird?
In Thunderbird, how to save all images embedded (multipart/related MIME format) in email in one turn?
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Configure Thunderbird to never send (or even try to send) HTML emails
Where can I tell Thunderbird always to send emails as plain-text, and never as HTML-formatted messages? I hate HTML-based email, and always do everything possible to send my emails as plain text.
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SMTP: Is it possible to CC someone without sending the original?
I actually started thinking about this because I forgot to CC someone on an email I was supposed to send, and I wanted him to get a copy without double-sending to everyone else. I ended up just ...
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