Questions about the use or functioning of any and all web-based email such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, etc.
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E-mail user services deletion account policy for inactive accounts?
Is there any deletion account policy for web based email services like Yahoo, MSN or Gmail?
For example if you don't access your account for a while will it be deleted?, will it be deactivated only? ...
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Does MailChimp host images for HTML emails?
If I want to send out HTML emails via MailChimp, would they host images for me or do I have to do it on my own server?
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GMAIL Selective Forwarding | SMS Forwarding
Does anybody know a way to create a rule in Gmail to forward emails from a specific contact or email address? If so, is there a way to forward to SMS?
I've tried playing around with the filtering but ...
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How to check the authenticity of a domain
I have received a mail from "xxxxx@yahoo-inc.com"
Is there any way I can check if this domain is owned by yahoo, or by a scammer?
nslookup returns different results for yahoo.com and yahoo-inc.com
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Sending an Outlook invite from Gmail
Someone asked me to send them an Outlook invite. I'm not on Outlook and don't want to set up an email account just to send them an invite.
Is there a way to send an Outlook invite from Gmail?
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Does my name get sent along with my email?
I'm using Gmail. Are recipients of my emails also given my full name?
In my own inbox, I see some people as John Smith but others as username@domain.com. I am aware that if I explicitly change ...
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Email campaign website with API that takes email addresses
I would like to take advantage of a third party service to send out emails, but I don't want to duplicate my user list. Is there a service that offers an API that will accept recipient emails rather ...
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Can I set a reminder for Google Tasks based on their due date?
Is it possible to be notified before a task is due, similar to how you can set notifications for events on Google Calendar?
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I want to receive the tweets of everyone I follow as emails. How do I configure that?
I suspect this might require a 3rd party application.
There is no way that I would want SMS notifications to my phone (which is almost what I'm looking for).
And if I could get emails just for ...
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How are Google Plus emails interactive?
I received a mail from Google+ saying that someone I knew recently joined Google+. The email had an interactive red-box which allowed me to add the user to my circles. As far as I am aware, emails do ...
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Gmail doesn’t delete mails from other account's sever after importing
I import mail from another mail account/server into my Gmail.
I do not want to save a copy on this other server. I went into Gmail settings → Accounts and clicked edit info next to my external ...
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How can I set up a Google Apps email address to forward?
I have tried following the instructions here, but when I get to step 4:
In the Email routing section, click Add another destination.
I can't proceed because there is no Email routing section.
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Set “All mail” as my default Inbox in Gmail?
Is there a way to set my Gmail so that the default Inbox is "All mail"?
I mean as soon as I go to gmail.com or mail.google.com, All Mail opens up, is this possible other than specifying it in the ...
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Sending an email to a Facebook user, knowing only his id
If I send an email to john.doe@facebook.com then John will receive the message.
In my address book I have the Facebook ids of my friends.
Can I use those ids to send an email?
I just tried ...
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Protect specific emails from deletion
Is there any plugin or addon that would allow me to protect emails (on Gmail) from deletion? So it would ask me the password for deleting protected emails.
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Receive mail into Gmail from custom domain Google Apps
I have a regular gmail account and a custom domain'd gmail account.
I want to use Gmail's "Check mail using POP3" function to retrieve the latter into my regular user@gmail.com but I cant get past ...
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How do I automatically remove previously sent emails from an email?
I don't know how to properly phrase this question (not a native english speaker) so I guess I'd have to show it to you:
I want to remove the red-shaded part of the picture above. It's really ...
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Do any tools exist to combine template based transactional email with CRM?
I am between a rock a hard place right now with a decision relating to CRM capabilities and general email marketing for our company. We have simply used very basic (think Gmail contacts, outlook, ...
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Using Gmail to manage multiple email accounts (not all @gmail.com)
Can you use Gmail like you'd use Outlook or Mac mail, i.e., be able to see a bunch of accounts and use them from inside Gmail?
I know that you can do this in the new Outlook.com but we're already ...
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How do I view an organisation member's email in Trello?
In Trello, I created an organisation with several members. I need to get the email of one of the members, in order to invite them to a new separate board. Can I get the email address of an existing ...
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How to move users to a new mailchimp list as part of a campaign?
I am using mailchimp to manage invitations for the beta launch of a web site. I have a list for people that have requested an invitation and would like to move them to another list when sending a ...
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Forward Email as RSS
I'm receiving a weekly google alert to my gmail account which I would like to post as an RSS feed, so people can subscribe to this same alert as a weekly update. Anyone know where I can forward this ...
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Create an “@msn.com” email address
I want to create an email account in MSN that be like "something@msn.com".
Is there any way to do that?
I found only a way to create @live and @hotmail.com email.
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Gmail - POP is enabled from 2006, want to have it marked enabled from 2005
I have been using Gmail since mid 2005 and didn't realize that I had to activate POP manually. So my POP access is enabled only from 2006 November. With the recent outages, I want to backup using POP ...
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How to implement a custom filter for GMail?
I need to implement a GMail filter that automatically moves a mail to another folder (not the inbox) if the priority inbox decided that it's not important. I saw there is an API for developing gadgets ...
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Email attachment / Gmail
I was wondering when I attach a file to be sent in an email is the progress bar that displays the file being encoding to MIME or is the file being upload to a server?
Thanks.
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Email POP3 forwards from hotmail to gmail takes too long?
Hi I am forwarding email from my hotmail to gmail account. But it takes a lot of time from my hotmail to gmail. Typically its taking at least an hr before it arrives in my gmail when i have received ...
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Is there a DNS Blacklist check for Hotmail/Live accounts?
We have a domain which is having issues sending emails to @hotmail and @live addresses. If you add the domain to safe senders it goes through no problem at all. However, sending to a random ...
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Is there a way to be notified by email whenever there is a new item on Google Reader?
I want be notified from Google Reader via email each time a new item shows up in one of my rss feeds. Is that possible?
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On Facebook, is there a way to stop notifications of posts of an event you've been invited?
Until now I always get notified when someone writes on an event I haven't even take a look at.
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How can I filter and label emails that are sent to a mailing list (which I am a part of)?
My current Gmail e-mail address is a part of a bunch of mailing lists that I need to be a part of. The problem is that I don't know what they are and they are always changing. So, how can I have it ...
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Update Google+ account over email
I'ld like to upload images and post text message to my Google+ account over email. Is there a solution available?
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Online RSS notifications via email
I'm looking for an online RSS notifier that will send me an email when there is a specific text (like a location; "Tokyo") within a news.
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Is it possible to modify outgoing mail headers in Gmail?
Is there any way to modify the mail headers in an outgoing message sent using Gmail? I'm interested in doing this to add an "Approved:" header to a Mailman announcements-only list (reference).
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Trello Account Confirmation results in internal server error
When I click on the confirmation link I get an empty page with "Internal Server Error", tried different browsers.
And: There is absolutely not possibility to contact anybody on the whole Trello ...
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Is there a closed mailing group service?
I am looking for a service that would allow me to
create private/closed mailing list
create managers for that list
add new user on their behalf
allow users to manage their membership
It is for our ...
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Problems in signing in to Hotmail
Seem that someone tried to sign in to my email in live.com with a wrong password too many times. So I am locked out right now. I can reset my password just with security question, but that lovely guy ...
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Online email service for POP accounts
is there an online service, where I can enter my email account to see all emails.
Same like Outlook but online, you know?
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Monitoring all emails on a company domain?
We are using Google Apps for Business on a domain that we've bought (from elsewhere). Is it possible to set it up so that all emails received by any user on the site is also forwarded to a specified ...
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How to Get Email Addresses of Feedburner Subscribers
I setup Feedburner on my Wordpress blogs. I want to retrieve the email addresses of my subscribers. But I couldn't find a way to get these addresses from Feedburner.
I made some googling before ...
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Set Reminders Automatically in Google Calendar
My dad is now extensively using Google Calendar for tracking his investments, changing of password(s) etc.,
He wants to create events with the minimum number of clicks. And, so this is his approach. ...
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Unsubscribe from Feedburner email subscription
I subscribed to a Feedburner RSS feed with email as the delivery method:
After doing that I realized I subscribed with the wrong email address. How can I unsubscribe?
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Mail forwarding service with unlimited, easy-to-create aliases for my own domain [closed]
I have my own domains that I use for emails and I like to create a separate email alias for each company I deal with, so that if someone starts spamming me I know who it is and can block them. There ...
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Social CRM application that integrates…
Is there any Social CRM application that integrates the following:
Telephone calls
Email comments on Facebook fan pages
Twitter mentions of my brand
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Replying from gmail with custom POP3 settings and auto selecting the associated custom SMTP settings
I setup gmail to add a POP3 and SMTP server for sending mail.
Whenever I get mail to that new address though, and I press on reply it still tries to reply by default by using my @gmail address.
Is ...
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How can I import Facebook contacts into LinkedIn?
Importing into Yahoo mail doesn't work for me since it halts at about 300 contacts out of 1500 (known bug).
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Change personal gmail account to use own domain name
I really like gmail as a email provider, mainly its spam settings seem to be so much 'smarter' than most other services.
At the moment ive got a personal gmail account (not a google apps for ...
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outlook.com differnt names for alias
How to put a different name on outlook.com alias? I have my main address with my real first name and last name. I set up an alias, but when I send emails with it, I don't want my real first and last ...
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Disallow Facebook friends who have marked me as “close” from viewing posts they are not allowed to see
Step 1: I update my status with an image on Facebook, and I set the "visibility" to be custom, and exclude a person from seeing it.
Step 2: That person has me marked as a "close friend", and receives ...
