Microsoft Outlook, the stalwart all-in-one Mail/Calendar/Contacts app for Mac (and Windows), designed foremost (but not exclusively) to work with Microsoft Exchange servers, has been around approximately forever. Many still use it, and even though I no longer do, I'll be the first to recognize it ...
Increasing email deliverability with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
This is why we can't have nice things. Spammers exist, and so we have to do stuff to make sure that our email is trusted by receiving systems. Technologists being who they are, none of this is easy, or comprehensibly named, but here we go. If you've got an email address from a big provider, like ...
So what is the “Archive” or “All Mail” folder in Apple Mail or Outlook or Gmail, anyway?
Questions I hear asked often are "What is the Archive folder (or All Mail) folder and what am I supposed to do with it? And why does an Archive button appear on my iPhone instead of Trash?" The answer, well, depends, on whether you're using Google Mail/Gmail, or every other mail system. Non-Google ...
Making Mac Mail in Big Sur behave more like previous versions
Apple made some changes to Mac Mail in Big Sur (and, presumably, forthcoming versions) that some are finding disorienting. The old behavior, as it has stood approximately forever, is that the "special folders" of accounts--Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk, Trash, and Archive--were collected together and ...
Making sense of Microsoft Office 2016, 2019, 365
Microsoft is notorious for their product segmenting and confusing naming. As I've mentioned elsewhere, they have multiple subscription services under the banner of "Office 365" -- which they are renaming to "Microsoft 365". These services can include Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...
Google GSSMO vs GSMMO
Google makes incredibly powerful and useful tools, but they also have their own bizarro world logic and inconsistent UI that can be hard to follow. Gmail's probably the best example of this--it's entirely different from other email systems, so it can be a love or hate affair, especially if you ...