One of our clients was getting a lot of spam in Russian on his Mac. Here's how we created a specialized email filter to eliminate the Russian spam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JnRl0ILTA&feature=channel_video_title The transcript: We have a saying around here at IvanExpert which is that ...
Reliable Entourage Backup Using Applescript
Entourage is very difficult to back up because it stores all of its data (every email message for every email account, and every account itself, and every contact and every calendar) in a great big file--a database. It's a fragile database, and if it becomes corrupted, it has a utility to try to ...
IMAP Versus POP Mail on the Mac
There are 2 ways your email can be set up: POP and IMAP. Do you know the difference between POP and IMAP? Read on! POP POP stands for Post Office Protocol. It is a standard way for computers to send and retrieve email. Most mail hosts, including Yahoo and Gmail, support POP. If your mail is set ...
Google and IMAP, Part 1
If you use Google Apps with an IMAP client such as Apple Mail, Entourage, or Outlook, periodically you may simply stop being able to log into the incoming mail server, even after you've double and triple checked the settings. If you have Google Apps standard (free), or Gmail, you may simply be ...
Moving to Outlook for Mac from Entourage: Tips
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is out, and included is the much-anticipated Outlook for Mac. By the way, make sure you buy the Home and Business edition; the Home and Student edition doesn't include Outlook. (And yes, it makes no sense that one is called "Home and Business" and the other is called ...
How to Back Up your Entourage Email on your Mac
Are you using Entourage for email, and Time Machine for backup? Entourage stores all email in one giant database, which gets bigger every time you get or send an email. And having a big database means frequent database corruption. Time Machine backs up everything new once an hour, which means ...