Apple mobile me mail working sometimes

I originally wrote this post on the 7th of july 2008 and updated it in September.
Apple have updated their alias’s so that all the smtp traffic you send to me.com get’s routed to the correct inbox so you can email username@me.com
they completly failed in their migrations prompting a letter from CEO to all the subscribers [...]

Posted at Jul 7th | no comments | Filed Under: imap, push, smtp read on

Username does not work with email

More often usernames are the email address so djames is a unix user and has email address but because companies have not typically held onto the unix name schema and people have tried to avoid spam and so on it has become a mess (Leave your comments below) with goverment bodies such as LEA’s [...]

Posted at Feb 28th | no comments | Filed Under: RFC read on

Setup Apple Mail with Google Email (GMail)

With Google finally dragging the large providers into the world of IMAP there are setup Problems, the most comman of these is seeing a completely different view in your email client (MUA) to the view presented in webmail interface, this ocurs because google seems to not properly announce the IMAP4 Namespace that would allow them [...]

Posted at Dec 9th | 1 comment | Filed Under: MUA, imap read on

GCHQ monitors Email

Recently MI5 issued a warning to UK business leaders about the risk to national Infrastructure that Email with attachments of Trojan horse like programs can have (also the problem will have other attack vectors), What is interesting is that while GCHQ obviously monitors government communication the need to alert business to problems raises the issue [...]

Posted at Dec 3rd | no comments | Filed Under: malware, reputation, smtp read on

Mulberry Mail client is now Open Source

This Email client was born in cambridge and thanks to Cyrus Daboo’s ability to stick to the standards makes a great Mail User Agent. I was excited to see that even the mainstream press have mentions this and kindly provided a non-biased users review (although why that one I am unsure) you can obtain the [...]

Posted at Nov 28th | no comments | Filed Under: CalDAV, MUA read on

uk NIC publishes a statistical review

I noticed that the uk NIC (nominet) has published a report detailing some very interesting things regarding domain registration. the report makes intresting reading and show data such as the top 20 GDP List compared to the Domain Names registered (sweden is a long way back due to regulations which in IMHO is a good [...]

Posted at Nov 27th | no comments | Filed Under: work read on

Request for Comments: 5068

I would encourage everyone who administers a server that exchanges Email with the outside to read
Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements
It simply and concisely sum’s up what we should be doing and clearly are not. I also am rather a fan of Mr Tony Finch who co authored the document. I know that [...]

Posted at Nov 27th | no comments | Filed Under: RFC, work read on

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