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E-mail Address requirements

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How Can We Help? Search Print The following are the requirements for an e-mail address: An e-mail address consists of local part and domain separated by an at sign (@) character. The local part may consist of alphabetic and numeric characters, and the following characters: !, #, $, %, &, ‘, *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } and ~, possibly with dot separators (.), inside, but not at...

How to migrate from Thunderbird to Evolution Mail together with all folders and sub folders all at once

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How Can We Help? Search Print NOTE: This tutorial is aimed at Ubuntu users. Open the home directory Select you’re username Press CTRL+H together to reveal hidden files and folders and locate .mozilla-thunderbird and .evolution Copy everything from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/zyx.default/Mail into~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/  NOTE: Copy only the .mbox files and delete.msf files...

How to send a message in plain text with Outlook Express or Windows Mail

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How Can We Help? Search Print Open Outlook Express (Start->All Programs->Outlook Express) Once Outlook Express is open click on Create Mail A new message will open up At the menu click on Format->Plain Text (To create a plain text message or to format the current mail to be plain text) A warning will popup just click on ‘OK‘ Now your message will be send using the Plain Text...

How to backup and restore mails in Evolution

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How Can We Help? Search Print BACKUP Open Evolution Click on File and then Backup Settings Choose a destination where you wish to save the backup file and give the file a name Click on SAVE A popup window will appear asking you if you are sure to close Evolution since the backup process can only start if Evolution is not running. If you wish to restart Evolution after backup check the checkbox...

How to configure a Gmail account with Evolution Mail using POP3 and SMTP

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How Can We Help? Search Print Login to the Gmail website.  Once logged in, click on Settings Click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab Make sure that POP is enabled in the POP Download section Once POP downloading has been enabled or was already enabled exit the Gmailwebsite Open Evolution Mail Click on Edit and then on Preferences Click on Add Click on Forward Enter your Full Name, your Gmail...

How to setup a webmail.co.za POP3 email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007

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How Can We Help? Search Print NOTE: Webmail is South Africa’s free email service, a Free email account can be obtained by visiting  Open Microsoft Outlook 2007 and click on Tools->Account Settings   In the Account Settings screen click on the New button under the E-mail tab   Select Microsof Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP and click on Next   Check the check box next...

Can’t delete mail in my Trash folder in Evolution mail, get error “Summary and Folder mismatch”

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How Can We Help? Search Print First create a backup of your mail using Evolution by clicking on File->Backup Settings “This step is vitally important to prevent data loss” By using your file browser browse to the following directory/home/YOURUSERNAME/.evolution/mail/local Once in the local folder delete all files with the following extensions. .index .cmeta .ev-summary Very...

How to add an Alias on your webmail.co.za email account

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How Can We Help? Search Print Login to webmail.co.za using your Username and Password Then click on Settings and then on Profiles Then under the Aliases section type in your Alias “you do not need to enter @webmail.co.za“ and click on the Add Alias button After you clicked on the Add Alias button your new Alias will appear under theAliases Section and Emails can be sent to your...

How to send a free South African SMS using webmail.co.za

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You first need to create a new webmail.co.za email account by clicking on the register link under the login box
After you’ve created the account you need to login into webmail.co.za

Now on the top right corner you will see a icon with the title free sms, click on it

Now type in the recipients number and the desired message to send and click on Send SMS

How to hide deleted message in your webmail.co.za Inbox after deletion

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How Can We Help? Search Print If you delete your emails within your inbox and they are still there only with a strikedthrough it means that the messages have been deleted but it’s not hidden in your Inbox To solve this login to webmail.co.za using your Username and Password Then click on Settings and then on Options Then under General Options check the checkbox next to Hide deleted...

How to check if a Email address exist or not using the command line

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How Can We Help? Search Print In this example we will test for the Email address [email protected], replace the gmail Email address with the email address you want to test Open the command line/command promt and type in the following command nslookup -type=mx gmail.com This command will list the MX records of the gmail domain eg. Server:        10.0.2.2   Address:    10.0.2.2#53   Non...

How to check that Outlook 2010 does not leave a Copy of the Mail on the Server

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How Can We Help? Search Print Open Microsoft Outlook 2010 Click on the File Tab and then on Account Settings Again click on Account Settings Click on the Email account on which you want to check it Click on Change Click on More Settings Click on the Advanced Tab Under the Delivery Section make sure the checkbox next to “Leave a copy of message on the server.” has been unchecked NOTE:...

Get Mail and Get All New Messages button not working in Thunderbird 13

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How Can We Help? Search Print When pressed nothing happens, and it does not check mails for multiple accounts. NOTE: Problem occurred on Thunderbird 13 installed on Fedora Core 15 Open Thunderbird Click on Edit->Account Settings Under each Mail Account click on Server Settings and then on the Advancedbutton Tick the checkbox next to Include this server when getting new mail Click OK Repeat the...

How to setup your outlook.com email account in Thunderbird 24

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How Can We Help? Search Print Steps: Login to outlook.com to enable POP3 mail downloads Click on Settings and then More mail settings Select Connect devices and apps with POP Select Enable and click on SAVE Now open Thunderbird and select File->New->Existing Mail Account Fill in your Name, Email address and Password and click on Continue Set the following settings to the details below:...

How to get Rid of Inline Attachments in Apple Mail

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Close Apple Mail
Open the Terminal via Applications -> Terminal
Execute the following command from the Terminal Window

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

Restart Apple Mail and the images won’t appear inline anymore

How to get your Email password in Thunderbird

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Click on Tools -> Options
Select the Security button
Click on the Passwords tab
Click the Saved Passwords… button
Search for your Email address
Click on the Show Passwords button
When prompted with a message “Are you sure you wish to show your passwords?” click on the Yes button
Your email password will now be revealed

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Ian Carnaghan

I am a software developer and online educator who likes to keep up with all the latest in technology. I also manage cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring, DevOps processes, security, and continuous integration and deployment.

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