Email

So much to do, so much to write — and major hassle factor as Gmail holds my email hostage, pretending my username and password isn’t valid. OK, I can get in via the web. I can send mail via SMTP. But if I want to POP download, that’s not happening. That hasn’t been happening for at least 5 [...]

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I’ve written before that I wish Gmail would allow you to build better blacklists, sort your inbox alphabetically, see more than 100 results at a time or nab non-English mail from hitting my inbox, all as ways to stop spam. On the “a picture’s worth a thousand words” front, here’s a [...]

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Earlier, I wrote about Gmail’s bogus “Custom From” system that doesn’t hide your Gmail address even if you tell Gmail you want another email address to show. I got an email from someone similarly irked by it, telling me that there’s now a petition to ask Google to fix this. Would [...]

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Gmail’s been pretty sluggish for me today. Then about a half-hour ago, I lost the ability to send email through it. I tried the usual step of deleting my account in Outlook and reestablishing it, as I covered here. No luck. I still can’t send. I suspect the problem is linked [...]

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Earlier this month, I began using Gmail to both receive and send my email via POP. Previously, I’d just used it to receive mail. By also sending through Gmail, I get a more complete archive of all my mail over time. The problem is, despite setting everything to keep my actual [...]

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I may be sticking with Gmail, but will Gmail stick with me? Today, one of those dreaded Outlook error messages appeared: Task ‘pop.gmail.com – Sending’ reported error (0×800CCC7D) : ‘Your outgoing (SMTP) server does not support SSL-secured connections. If SSL-secured connections have worked in the past, contact your [...]

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I decided that yesterday would be the last day of comparing how the three email services filter email. Dealing with one dose of spam is bad enough, but I’m stuffed counting three doses of it! More important, there’s little point for me, personally. Yahoo still catches far too little spam for me [...]

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Yesterday was the last day I let my three mail services run without training them to understand false matches. It was also the first time that SpamCop ran with all previous training removed. Despite that, it still performed great. False matches were up a bit with Gmail, while Yahoo Mail was simply [...]

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First, a big hello to all of you who may have surfed in from Jeremy’s kind link about my test! Yesterday’s stats put Gmail into the lead with me. More on that in a moment, but I wanted to talk about what I’m testing next. I said at the beginning of my stat [...]

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