There’s one thing that the Apple Mail client gets right which I’ve never seen anything else try to do - the way it formats messages. Most mail clients seem to offer plain text and HTML as user selectable options and do exactly what they’re told regardless of the content of the message. If HTML is [...]
Please, folks, when emailing the same question to multiple people or places send a single email with multiple recipients. Don’t send separate mails to each destination - at best you’ll waste people’s time, at worst you’ll irritate them. There are a few exceptions, mostly to do with confidentiality, but they really are pretty rare - [...]
The IMAP client provided with the version of Symbian on my phone has an interesting way of verifying certificates used for encrypting IMAP connections.
As one would expect the client verifies the signatures on the certificate offered by the IMAP server and will prompt the user if it sees signatures that it can’t trace back to [...]
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve started getting messages like this from the SourceForge:
Your membership in the mailing list whatever has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 15-Sep-2007.
It’s true - the systems that handle my mail do generate a number of SMTP time rejects for [...]
Even worse than the usual multipart/alternative messages with a contentless text/plain part are messages like that when there quite clearly is a text/plain version of the message (for example, as another option when you sign up for a list) but it’s not been included and this unhelpful “error” has been included. This annoys me: my [...]
As Steve found Ecartis isn’t terribly informative about problems it encounters injecting mail via SMTP:
2006-08-14 21:40:25 1GCk6m-0006ZH-Vu == |/usr/lib/ecartis/ecartis -s xen-tools-commits R=vdom_aliases T=address_pipe defer (0): Child process of address_pipe transport returned 75 (could mean temporary error)
from command: /usr/lib/ecartis/ecartis
with nothing in the Ecartis log by default. Along with a general failure to talk SMTP like Steve [...]
Russel, Postfix does support SMTP time rejection using either a SMTP based mechanism Postfix provides or Sendmail Milters. It’s particularly nice to see the Milter support in there - the amount of wheel reinvention with things like antispam support always depressed me.