Did you know you can set up your email to trigger a text message to your mobile phone? For example, let's say you want to get an SMS text every time your mom sends you an email. Here's what you need to do: STEP 1: Figure out what your SMS email address is. Here they are for the top US carriers: ...
Office 365 can give you a headache
Office 365 is confusing. It's a a single name for disparate plans and services, and might refer to hosted Exchange email, or a version of the desktop Office suite that you subscribe to rather than purchase, or both. UPDATE August 2013: Since I originally posted this, Microsoft has updated their ...
Gmail: Don’t Save OS X Mail Drafts to Server
Apple Mail on OS X has a peculiar way of working with the drafts folder, and so does Gmail, and the two don't mix well. Apple Mail automatically saves a copy of a message that you're working on every 30 seconds in the Drafts folder, and then tells the server to remove the previous version from the ...
Embed a link in Apple Mail
If you want to include a URL link in Apple Mail, it's easy to do, but only if you know how. Here are instructions, in 3 easy steps. 1. While you are in the message compose window of Apple Mail, choose "Customize Toolbar", from the View menu. 2. In there, you'll find a "Link" button. Drag this into ...
Why do messages disappear from Gmail on an iPhone or iPad?
This is the possible first in a series of posts on Gmail's idiosyncratic behaviors with Mail on Macs, iPhones and iPads. Many of our clients who interact exclusively with their Gmail or Google Apps accounts through their Macs and iPhones have reported messages "disappearing". Here's what's usually ...
Disable Apple Mail Inline Attachments
Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...