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m.exchangemail.com

benzenedream — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:35:08 -0800

Seeking a lightweight web interface to Exchange 2003 server. Need something more usable than OMA, but more smartphone-friendly than Outlook Web Access. We don't allow work email to be cached on non-work devices for legal reasons. I'd like to be able to log in to webmail but find OWA rather clunky on a smartphone browser; OMA provides a bare-bones interface that's intended for ActiveSync rather than actual humans. Has anyone cobbled together a reasonable solution? I guess I'm looking for something like the mobile gmail page for Outlook. We won't be upgrading to Exchange 2007 for a while so its features are not an option.

iPhone-class RAZR replacement for Verizon service?

attercoppe — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:30:20 -0800

What's the best current Verizon phone for me? So I'm dropping my Alltel service and switching to Verizon to share a plan with my wife. (Oddly enough, though they merged, I can't just have them move me over, I have to cancel the one and sign up with the other.) They also say I will need a new phone.

I currently have a Motorola RAZR, as does my wife. I love mine's interface, especially the speed - the wife's is stupid slow, and kind of ugly besides. (My software version reports as GATW_04.06.00R, hers I don't know and don't have access to at the moment.) I'd like to find a phone with a similar look and feel to my current one, particularly the speed - hers seriously takes like a few seconds after a keypress to display menus or switch screens.

Alternately, I might like to go big and get something I can at least get email on, maybe even browse web pages. Streaming media capability (aka Pandora) would be more icing. The Verizon rep I spoke to says they'll give me a deal on the new phone, and I can spend a little anyway, so I'm not looking for crazy cheap - but not made of platinum either. I dream of an iPhone or even just an iPod Touch so I can use wi-fi - of course that's not an option on Verizon, but I think at least some of the BlackBerrys have wi-fi? I am not interested in paying extra for a data plan to do any of this.

You probably need more info from me, feel free to ask away and I'll try to watch closely and answer quickly. Give me your experiences and thoughts, please!

Cellphone plans for texting rather than talking?

tzikeh — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:12:48 -0800

I love my Treo (smartphone), and I use it for everything - except for making phone calls. Are there any plans out there that privilege texting over speech? I'm currently with Verizon and paying about $70-$80 a month, but I don't even come close to using up my minutes. I think I have 450 minutes and I maybe use 20-30 a month. The money all goes to text messaging, which I use far more than I ever use the phone service.

Are there any cellphone plans out there which have flat fees for texting that aren't on top of the fee for phone minutes? And if there aren't, does anyone have a suggestion of how I might lower my monthly costs without giving up texting?

get me online!

ouchitburns — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:58:41 -0800

What cell phone plan should I take in BC, Canada? I am about to enter into a new contract and want a phone that I can also use to do email

I am incredibly confused as to the options for Canadians. All I want is to be able to either visit gmail.com or use some sort of outlook type program to send and receive emails. A bonus would be being able to use wikipedia or google.

When I talk to the customer service agents, they talk to me about portals and things that I should understand but don't.

Help!

What email service does your company use?

x41-pbj — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:02:14 -0800

What email service does your company use? The small company I work for (10 employees and growing quickly) uses GoDaddy now, primarily for historical reasons, and it's pretty terrible. Any recommendations for enterprise email services?

phpList: seriously, wtf?

drjimmy11 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:27:59 -0800

phpList: seriously, wtf? I develop a website for a non-profit, and they requested I set up phpList on the server so they can send out newsletters.

Everything went ok (eventually), I can now send emails and recipients will get them. Eventually.

I sent a bunch of emails as tests on Sat., copying them to both my gmail and yahoo accounts. phpList's queue shows that it sends them within a second.

However, I don't receive them to my email accounts until, at a minimum, a few hours later. Some of them were still showing up this morning, 2 days later!

I am a pro. web developer, but don't know that much about email servers and such. Have other people had this experience with phpList? Do yahoo and gmail give delivering these emails a low priority or what? And where exactly are they for the two days between phpList "sending" them and them showing up in my inbox?

I am a bit worried that my client might want to send newsletters with time-sensitive info. A few hours is ok, but two days is ridiculous.

Any ideas or alternatives?
thanks!

Email Alias Creator: Does Such a Thing Exist?

hazelshade — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:55:22 -0800

Are there any free (and non-sketchy) services out there that would allow me to create an e-mail alias that would re-direct to 30 people? I realize this is a huge shot in the dark, but, then, isn't that what AskMe is for?

Google searches yield nothing.

Registrar w/ bulletproof mail redirect?

skywhite — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:18:24 -0800

Registrar w/ bulletproof mail redirect? For several years I have been content with service on my dozen domain registrations with my old registrar, but no longer. I recently registered a .com domain and created one email redirect and one webmail account but neither work. I had to hunt on the registrar's site for the contact-form and never received an automated email with a ticket number. (UPDATE: finally got an automated email this very minute.)

I'm looking for a registrar which offers superlative mail forwarding. I don't really need webmail or hosting or spam protection -- just rock solid redirect from a registrar who isn't going away and has a good reputation. I'm currently paying US $15/year per domain (a mix of European and American domains) -- offering 5 webmail accounts and 1,000 redirects per domain, and I would be willing to continue to pay in that range.

easy setup email hosting

andrewzipp — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:36:16 -0800

I need to move a domain name, and set up email hosting for 200 addresses, with minimal downtime. I could do this through Dreamhost, but they're asking to have every single name entered in separately. Is there an email host that can set these up in bulk? I don't need web mail, just a new POP3 address.

Webmail solution

captainscared — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:48:25 -0800

I am looking for a web based email solution for numerous pop accounts. I have numerous email accounts from several domains and I'd like to find a one-stop web solution to checking all of them while at work, without email forwarding, etc.

I'd love it to be free but that's not a deal breaker. Likewise, I'd like a solution that is more robust than squirrel mail.

Thanks.

Help me with my e-mail ponderings...

dance — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:42:00 -0800

This is a two-part question concerning e-mail, the internet's original 'killer app'. i ) We know email has its flaws - but I'm looking for reasons (obvious and non-obvious) why an email address directory for the entire net has never (been attempted?) worked.

ii ) Does anyone know of a web app (preferably AJAX) which would serve as a repository for a given group's email addresses? Sort of a smaller version of the above. Individuals would be able to update their record in the app (perhaps by verifying with the system they own the address), there would be sensible authentication processes and vCards could be generated on the fly? It strikes me this could be quite handy...!

Generate email response from database.

Nothing — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:37:27 -0800

Is there a free simple web to email gateway or scriptable email responder that will run on windows server 2003? I need to generate an email report based on the subject of a recieved email (an id number) and send it back the the requester. And I need to check the requester's email address against a user database.

The website already generates the same report on a web page, but web access is not always available to my users. The report has to be generated upon request, it can't be generated on a schedule.

The mail server is the very simple one built into windows server 2003. I don't have access to Exchange or anything like that. I thought of just watching the mailbox directory and triggering a program when a message showed up, but I don't have the windows programming skills to do that.

The easiest thing would be to load the web page, save it, and send it back as an attachment. Is there an easy way to do that? The web is full of autoresponder programs for spammers that do nothing at all like what I need.

What is the best free web-based email service?

frogan — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:32:07 -0800

What is the best free web-based email service? What is the best free web-based email service? I'm looking for something besides Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. I've tried all three. All of them have their idiosyncracies. Gmail seems to be cool kid on the block, but I absolutely hate their "conversation" system of grouping email. It's remarkably unintuitive to me.

In my perfect world, it would be Gmail without the baloney conversation system.

Is there any other ones out there worth looking at? Or alternately, any Gmail hacks to deal with the conversation grouping?

Network tech support brain-twister

frenetic — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:02:38 -0800

Riddle me this: there are two Windows XP computers (desktop and laptop) on the same Internet connection, behind the same router, connecting wirelessly to it. The laptop often (but not every time) takes a really long time (30 seconds+) to send email and connect to certain websites. The desktop never has this problem. What's going on? Here are a few things I've checked:

- Wireless signal strength is fine
- When the laptop is taking a long time connecting to sites others work fine at the same time
- Scanned for spyware/viruses with MS Anti-Spyware and Spybot Search & Destroy (clean)
- Has the web problem in three different web browsers (IE6, Netscape 7, Firefox 1.5)
- Has the email problem in both Netscape mail and Outlook Express
- Windows firewall is disabled
- Disabled Javascript/Java/Cookies in Firefox
- Disabled any virus checkers/resident anti-spyware
- Cleared everything out of the tray
- Checked network setup, it's identical to the desktop

One of the sites that's reliably slow (though again, not every time) on the laptop but not on the desktop is tremblant.ca.

All I can think of at this point is that something's been fundamentally hosed and the laptop needs a full XP reinstall. But I'd love to know what the heck's going on if anyone knows.

How often do most people change their email address?

junkbox — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:19:44 -0800

I'm looking for statistics about how often the average Internet user changes his/her email address. Particularly people who use free, web-based email like Hotmail or Yahoo!, but any recent numbers about the general population of email users would be fine.

Alternative contact details for Interscope Records?

sjvilla79 — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:56:03 -0800

Can anyone assist me with alternative contact details for Interscope Records? The email addresses on their contact page aren't working. I'm trying to get in touch with Interscope Records but their public email address keeps bouncing to my emails. Can anyone assist me with alternative contact details? I'd prefer an email address as I'm located outside of America and I'm too impatient to write a letter and too cheap to call them on the phone.

Posting someone else's email address on a public website. Is it legal?

sjvilla79 — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:50:31 -0800

Is it legal to post someone else's email address on a public website? Is there any privacy laws (or other laws) in place that prevent a person from publishing the email address of another person on a public website? I've searched and found some threads elsewhere although I'm still not entirely confident with my findings.

looking for a web host that also has IMAP email access...

whatevrnvrmind — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:23:56 -0800

I am looking for a web host that also has IMAP email access. I'm not looking for anything fancy. I would like at least 1 GB of storage. All I read is horror stories and none of the rating sites seem very reputable. Could you please post your recommendations?

Need replacement for Formmail and NMS Formmail

Pinwheel — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:54:05 -0800

Due to "security concerns," my web host provider has just banned two Form-to-email scripts (Formmail and NMS Formmail). Now I'm hard up to find a replacement. Any ideas? I'd prefer a solution that doesn't require a mastery of PERL to configure.

What's a lightweight, simple email server I can install on my XP box?

signal — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:33:29 -0800

What's a lightweight, simple email server I can install on my XP box? It will only serve like 2 addresses. IMAP and web access is a plus. Running as a service would also be nice.

Getting email to an AOL-blocked domain

callicles — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:45:49 -0800

i gave my mother an email on my domain, and, being a woman of a certain age, most of her friends use AOL. unfortunately, AOL is blocking all emails from my domain. i think my doman name was hijacked for spam in the past. how do i get AOL to stop blocking my domain?

Can you suggest any free public email services?

brownpau — Mon, 10 May 2004 08:39:46 -0800

I remember seeing a free disposable email service which showed a public stream of received mail to any of its addresses right on the front page, and another one which let you syndicate its inbound-mail stream? Does anyone remember these services? I can't find them.

Moving Domain Hosts

dobbs — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:07:00 -0800

I've been asked to redesign a medium-sized corp (60 employees) web site. The current host is dreadful and I want to switch it to Dreamhost, who I use for all my small clients without problem. How will moving their web site/domain to a different host affect their email? [MI] I guess i'm not even sure what I'm asking... they have a networked office. When I move the site, do I then just create a pop3 account for each person, the same as I would for a small client or does the fact that they have a network affect this? Do I have to go through their IT dept? I don't mind asking stupid questions here but I think if I went to them with this question they'd think I wasn't capable of the job. Suggestions, or do I need more info before I'm able to properly ask this question?