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I received an email from 38 Degrees recently about their successful attempt to stop the so called Snoopers Charter – The UK Communications Data Bill. Late on Thursday 25 April, Nick Clegg announced that he will not allow the Government’s plan to spy on everyone’s internet use to go ahead. Fortunately Read more [...]

As revealed in my recent post about the WordPress Brute Force Flood Danger, many websites and blogs are at risk at the moment because of insecure passwords. But it’s more than that, I regularly get people coming to this website using the search term gmail or hotmail account hijacked or hacked and Read more [...]

At the weekend, Gmail rolled out some changes to their email offering designed to make things easier to use. New Compose feature on Gmail Instead of opening up a screen-wide place to compose your messages, it now opens a pop up window in the corner of your screen – not sure how that makes it easier Read more [...]

The obviously hacked yahoo email messages started appearing last week. Most were from my friends but some came from people that I did not recognise. Some gave the name of the sender in the title, others said Fw: name of sender, still more said Re: message or Fw: and then what looked like a date. Read more [...]

I hate spammers. I hate them because they fill up my inbox with ridiculous and unnecessary comments that I have to trawl through to separate them out from the real people with something valuable to add to my posts. I hate them because I have to put captcha codes on my contact form to deter them Read more [...]

I spent a while today trying to show a new client how to import his domain based emails into his gmail account so that he could receive and respond from the separate email addresses in one place. I believe that you can also do this in Outlook but gmail is my preferred method – and with a simple gmail Read more [...]

You’re going to be away from the office for an extended period over Christmas and the New Year and you’re determined not to check your emails… but how to tell potential customers that you’re not just ignoring them… or that your email has not gone down…? Well, it really depends what type of email Read more [...]

I’ve had this issue a couple of times in the last year – mail sent to one of my email addresses that wasn’t actually meant for me. One was where the person in question or the authority they were applying to had clearly typed in the wrong email address because it was to help them do something very Read more [...]

Over the last few weeks, I have had a couple of incidents where people have asked me why email messages might be bouncing back. Invariably the problem is file size. It’s different if you are sending a big file to some of the bigger providers like gmail, hotmail, yahoo – these tend to accept Read more [...]

So here was a very frustrating problem. I was sending out an email campaign on the autoresponder, Mailchimp for a client. I had produced some tests before pressing the button to publish it to their entire database. On my yahoo email, it looked fabulous with lots of coloured pictures. But the client Read more [...]