Email

I posted over at the SEW Blog today about Gmail going down yet again for me, not allowing me to POP download. Just out of the blue, suddenly I was given username and password errors as I’ve had before. Usually, I’ve been able to correct these errors in various ways, as I’ve covered in these [...]

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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 [...]

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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 visual illustration of why [...]

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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 I sign? Sure. I’m [...]

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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 to the new chat [...]

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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 Gmail address hidden, it’s [...]

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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 (0x800CCC7D) : ‘Your outgoing (SMTP) server does not support SSL-secured connections. If SSL-secured connections have worked in the past, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).’ [...]

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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 to consider going [...]

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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 appalling in performance. [...]

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