Archive for the 'Email' Category

When spam is not really spam

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I get about 250 spam messages per day to my primary email addresses. get more than a hundred to email addresses I do not use and a hundred blog post spam as well.
But I also get genuine email to my Yahoo email account that is not indented for me. The email address is very short […]

No new Gmail features

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

A lot of people were expecting some new cool Gmail features for April 1st. This has been the case the last couple of years. No new features this year. And no lauch of Google Calendar. Let’s hope that Google is not starting to get tired. That they will continue to shake computer world.
The big news […]

April 1st launch of Google Calendar

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

There is speculation of a April 1st launch of Google Calendar aka CL2.
There are a couple things that are certain, it will be based on Ajax and it will be integrated with Gmail. What will be crucial is possibility to sync with cell phones and pda’s. That will be tricky as you can not do […]

Google Gmail Chat client

Monday, February 20th, 2006

A while back I wrote that Google should stick to web based apps. A step in the right direction is the Gmail-based chat client. It does not require any software, but is maybe too basic.
The hottest thing right now are Ajax desktops. The plan is that create a personal dynamic home page. It sounds pretty […]

Gmail Imap import script available for download

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I have now made my Gmail Imap import script available for download below.
The script will resend all imap mail from a certain to your Gmail account. The script will add the original date and folder name to the title of the email if you want. The folder name can be used to automatically apply […]

Email postage

Monday, February 6th, 2006

The major email providers, Yahoo and AOL, have announced that they will be starting to charge for receiving email from companies sending bulk mail. The charge will be 0.25 cent.
Yahoo and AOL will stand to make a lot of money and this will probably make email marketing more accepted. At the same time it will […]

Gmail Imap import script

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I have now completed a script for importing imap email folders to Gmail. It is not 100% automatic and it does stop for some reason once in a while. And there are some possible spam issues. I have therefore decided not put the script online for now.
I did import more than a thousand email, many […]

What a mess

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I have been looking into SMTP, Mime and other mail-related stuff for my Gmail import app. It is really messy. Even worse than state of HTML.
There a no mail clients that can decode and parse 100% of all mail. Many come close enough but creating a new mail standard with the inclusion of certificates […]