Posts Tagged ‘email’

August 9 2009

Kerala police nabs Nigerian email fraudster

How many times have we got one of those emails from an African country, promising us a large reward for letting them use our bank account to transfer money?
You might think that in this day and age, people are aware of such fraudulent acts and do not fall into such traps. Wrong! There’s still a  [...]

December 21 2008

My adventures with Blackberry

I like to visualize the BlackBerry server as a ‘black box’ – only because it is often difficult to figure out where the problem is. Perhaps my ignorance is to blame, or it’s just my love for the simplicity/transparency surrounding the inner workings of ActiveSync.
The other day, for instance, I was trying to activate [...]

May 13 2008

10 bad email habits

EHLO!
This is a list of ten bad email habits that I’ve come across. Take a look and see if you find yourself doing some or all of these.
If you’re like me, and you can’t stand the sight of ol’ SMTP being abused, I’ve included some tips on how to teach the abuser a lesson [...]

April 26 2008

How to understand an Exchange Server 2007 NDR

Here’s one for users and IT support personnel who sometimes have problems understanding what exactly an email non-delivery report (NDR) is trying to convey. Messaging experts, please excuse.
In Exchange Server, all NDRs returned to the sender appear to come from the local Exchange Server of your organization and not from the remote recipient’s mail server [...]

April 23 2008

POP3 vs. Outlook Anywhere (Exchange RPC over HTTP)

The year is 2008 and you might be wondering why I’m making such a post.
This blogger has seen that even in this time and age, some people simply love POP3 and prefer it over better and more secure alternatives. This post serves as an eye-opener to users as well as administrators who are die-hard POP [...]

March 13 2008

Blackberry vs. India

The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had announced that it will terminate the Blackberry services in India over concerns of security, since the Indian government cannot monitor the Blackberry servers as they are located in Canada.

Indian mobile operators that offer BlackBerry services, top executives of the Canadian telco Research in Motion (RIM) (the company that [...]