Posts tagged Email
Unexpected Changes
- 30 September 2018
- Category: WPArchive
E-mail is one of those things that you take for granted. Once you have set-up an address and a client you can reliably receive mail for many years until something changes.
Facebook Account Deleted
- 27 March 2018
- Category: WPArchive
Today I finally got round to deleting my Facebook account. I have never really been an active user and it has been years since I actually logged in. My only use was to use the “Log in with Facebook” option with a mobile app that I am not too fussed about.
Tidying Up
- 02 January 2016
- Category: WPArchive
Starting off a new year always seems a good time to get a few things in order for the months ahead. Today I have tacked my email inbox. I have been building upon my list of filters for years such that most of the mailing list items, special offers, online order confirmations etc. all get sorted automatically. The filters never remain perfect as a company might change the email address they are sending from or retitle a newsletter. The result has been a spam folder filled with things I want and an inbox full of clutter.
System Email
- 09 June 2013
- Category: WPArchive
On my Fedora system I collect the system emails to my user account. This results in a selection of daily emails outlining statuses which I am prompted to deal with whenever I launch a terminal. In the past I have used the “mail” command to read and delete the messages. It is not the easiest mail reader to deal with however. The fallback has been to use Evolution which is part of Gnome. I have never been a fan of Evolution, instead preferring Thunderbird. Thunderbird does not support the maildir format used by the system email and as such has been ruled out. I am going to be trying out Mutt, it is a command line reader that I found already installed on my system. The interface is structured unlike “mail” and even lists the shortcuts for commonly used commands. For my needs I don’t need to configure Mutt to do anything. I did find a couple of links that may prove useful in making Mutt your primary email client.
The Legacy Email Problem
- 16 March 2013
- Category: WPArchive
Over the years, like many other people, I have obtained numerous email accounts/addresses. Trying to manage all these used to be a problem so a few years back I began to condense them down into the few I actually use.
Facebook Is Shit
- 29 April 2012
- Category: WPArchive
Some people may not understand my dislike of Facebook as a company, today however it is Facebook as a service that is the problem. I don’t normally use the popular social networking website due to the privacy policy, the force feeding of advertising and the user profiling. I maintain an account as a just in case option, I am not an active user.
Refactoring Email
- 25 February 2011
- Category: WPArchive
I have been using email for many years now. Over that time I have changed between mail clients, addresses, operating systems and spam filters. Whilst I have been able to keep on top of filtering mail into folders it finally reached the point today where the the mess of filtering and folders needed a clean up.
I’ve Won £650,000
- 13 January 2008
- Category: WPArchive
I was pleased to receive and email from an Italian website telling me I have won £650,000. That is very good news as I don’t even remember entering anything. To collect my prize all I need to do is send my Name, Address, Age, Sex, Occupation and Telephone number. It sounds too good to be true.
Hotmail Time Saving Tips
- 11 July 2005
- Category: WPArchive
I got an email in my hotmail inbox, detailing ways the service could help me save time. The only way its going to save me time is if Microsoft stop filling it with spam and pointless messages I have to check.