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So you only have one email address 😲
I'm not going to bang on about the old days. I'm just going to say that these days everybody needs at least 2 email addresses. I've...
Jul 28, 20213 min read


You're saving too many emails
I've hardly met a person who doesn't save too many emails. Regardless of whether your email hoarding numbers in the tens or the thousands...
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Rogue Email - "where is it all coming from?"
Recently one of my customers came to me with a very strange problem... His Sent Items folder in his email just kept growing and growing....
Nov 18, 20203 min read


Using filters to make mailbox tidying up easy
I'll be talking about and showing images of Gmail, but most email programs and webmail have some form of filtering function that will be...
Aug 31, 20202 min read


How to backup your Gmail (and other email too) & aiming for an empty In-box
My previous post on Mailstore Home i.e. the post immediately before this one, came about from my testing and assessment of the Gmail...
Jul 27, 20203 min read


Moving thousands of emails easily
I've written a lot about email and the pain around managing thousands of emails, the pain of email clients failing and corrupting their...
Jul 23, 20201 min read


It's email Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it,not as we know it..
As you may imagine, a number of my previous blog posts have been about email... https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/blog/search/email ...but...
Jun 25, 20201 min read


Moving from outlook to Gmail (from my 2016 article)
In 2016 I sent out a semi-regular email newsletter. This article was in one of those. I thought I'd review it and republish it on this...
Apr 27, 20203 min read


Fat PST files - oh the pain (from 2016 article)
In 2016 I sent out a semi-regular email newsletter. This is a post from then that is still relevant today. I've reviewed, commented and...
Apr 23, 20203 min read


Outlook, a new reason to hate it (and leave it)
A recent major issue for a customer of mine revealed a new sting in the tail for Outlook users...a new reason to "get out" altogether...
Apr 22, 20204 min read


When email goes bad...
These days email is ubiquitous. We expect it to be everywhere, work on everything and communicate instantly. Unfortunately, that's not...
Nov 7, 20192 min read


The ultimate pedant
All of us know someone who just can't let those little things go. For me, that IS me. I am the stickler. I've been outed by the TV show...
Oct 28, 20192 min read


If you hate Outlook's new way of creating email accounts...
...then this is how you disable it: https://myrealoffice.com/disable-simplified-account-creation-outlook-2016/ Info' below is a copy and...
Jul 9, 20191 min read


Leaving windows live mail behind
If you are still using Windows Live Mail then you are exposing yourself to at least 8 years of evolved security risks. The most recent...
May 14, 20193 min read


Manage email backups better - drag and drop them to folders
You may have noticed from my other articles and blog posts that I am no longer a fan of email clients (programs that "do" email for you)....
Nov 14, 20183 min read


Secure email - the myth, the pain, what you can do...
Every now and then I get asked about setting up a secure email system for a customer. Pretty much every time I have explained the...
Oct 22, 20182 min read


The latest version of MS Outlook is awful
I haven't personally used Microsoft Outlook, the proper email client program, for about 10 years. As I've ranted about in the past, doing...
Oct 3, 20183 min read


Scamming the scammers
Are you sick of all the stupid scam emails and other time wasting spam emails? Well, there is a way to get back at email scammers. Just...
Sep 17, 20181 min read


Conversation mode not all that chatty
Many email programs (clients) and web mail systems have had the option to bundle your emails by "thread" or "conversation" (as opposed to...
Aug 14, 20181 min read
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