Posts Tagged ‘email’
Background I use Enterprise GitHub at work, and public GitHub for my own projects and contributing to open source. As the different systems use different identities some care is needed to ensure that the right identities are attached to commits. Directory structure I use a three level structure under a ‘git’ directory in my home […]
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Tags: .config, directory, email, enterprise, git, github
Leaving the Institution
TL;DR Yesterday the IET shut down their email alias service, which is the only thing I cared about as a member. So come 2020 I expect that I’ll no longer be a member (MIET) or keep the designation of Chartered Engineer (CEng) that goes with that. Background I joined the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) […]
Filed under: could_do_better | 3 Comments
Tags: alias, BCS, CEng, email, FBCS, IEE, IET, institution, MIEE, MIET
TL;DR The Administrator setup for Google Apps Migration guide makes things look pretty straightforward, but it’s much, much more complicated. What should be just a couple of check boxes turned out to be a twisty turny journey through hidden menus littered across distant parts of the administrators console. Background The move from CohesiveFT to Cohesive Networks […]
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Tags: API, email, gapps, google, Google Apps, howto, IMAP, mail, migration, Outlook
This should work for any service that only supports POP3S, not just gmail. You’ll need a Linux box/VM (I generally use Ubuntu). Background Since the mid 90s I’ve used Ameol to retrieve email. When I started using gmail I forwarded mail on to my ISP’s POP3 service and collected it with Ameol so that I’d […]
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Tags: 110, 995, client, email, gmail, perdition, POP3, POP3S, port, proxy, stunnel, Ubuntu
This isn’t a post about the nym wars. I understand why people are upset about the real names policy, but I’m pretty ambivalent about it myself. I certainly don’t have anything to add to the great stuff that’s been said already by IdentityWoman, ESR, Kevin Marks and Charlie Stross. My concern is more mundane – […]
Filed under: could_do_better, identity | 2 Comments
Tags: contacts, email, G+, google, home, identity, persona, profile, work
email like it’s 1995
The old joke There used to be a joke that people who didn’t ‘get it’ would send an email and then call the recipient up to check if it had been received. Now the joke’s on us Now, I am that joke. I think we all are. Email has reached a point where it’s just […]
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Tags: bacn, batch, blackberry, business edition, DNS, email, fail, false positive, GABE, GAPE, gapps, google, Google Apps, IP Lock, Postini, premier edition, quarantine, spam, SPF, support
Directed social bookmarking
One of my colleagues spends a lot of time seeing how we can introduce more enterprise 2.0 technologies to the workplace, and when I come across good stuff in that field I tend to throw it over the wall to him. It therefore struck me as insane that when I was reading this from Andrew […]
Filed under: e2.0 | 8 Comments
Tags: del.icio.us, e2.0, email, enterprise 2.0, social web
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