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Questions tagged [email]

Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.

Questions about email clients, mail transfer agents and email software configuration. Questions about webmail are off-topic.

Webmail services

If your question is concerned primarily with web mail services, such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, it belongs more on Web Applications unless you are also talking about how said web mail can be connected with your desktop client.

Email clients

Mail transfer agents

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What is the "You have new mail" message in Linux/UNIX?

Sometimes, when I log into a box and 'su' to root, I get a cute little message saying I have mail (thank GOD it's not AOL). Where is this mail? What does it contain? Who/What sent it? How important is it? Is this even actual "mail" in the same…
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Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work?

Most of the time when I see someone post their email address online, especially if it's a personal address, they use something like me [at] example [dot] com instead of the actual email address ([email protected]). Even top members of this community…
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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?

Any idea why my Mac terminal says: You have mail in /var/mail/lofye How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?
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How can I find out where an email really came from?

How can I know where an email really originated from? Is there any way to find it out? I have heard about email headers, but I don't know where can I see email headers, for example in Gmail. Any help?
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Why is the size of my email about a third bigger than the size of its attached files?

When attaching data to my emails, I noticed that Thunderbird calculates the total size of the resulting email as much bigger than the files I attached. Here's a recent example: two images, one at 13MB and one at 3.6MB should in total be…
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One GnuPG/PGP key pair, two emails?

I have two emails I use frequently, for both of which I'd like to use PGP keys generated/managed by GnuPG. I'd like to avoid creating a different key pair for each email, if possible, as that's unnecessary for my situation, i.e. I use the two emails…
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Email sent to me is addressed to [email protected]. How is this done?

I was recently sent a scam email, and for giggles I opened it up to read it. Very plain, and not much effort thrown in. I noticed something peculiar; this email was not addressed to me. At first, I suspected a CC, or a BCC, but nowhere does it have…
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Why do I need an SMTP server?

Why do I need an intermediate SMTP server to send mail? Why can’t my client (Outlook, Thunderbird) send messages directly to the recipient’s SMTP domain? For example, if I have to send an email to [email protected] with my Gmail account, I send it…
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Can I create a link to a specific email message in Outlook?

I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don't want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my inbox, I often need to reference these mails. Is…
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What's the difference between cc and To fields in e-mail?

In most email clients you can send an e-mail to multiple recipients in the To: field by separating addresses by a semicolon. You can also use CC to send a copy to other people. Is there any difference between the two? Do mail programs behave…
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Tell Thunderbird not to truncate or wrap lines when sending email

When I compose and send an email (I always write plain-text emails) in Thunderbird, it always truncates my sentences and adds line breaks in the middle of my sentences. How do I turn this feature off? It is quite annoying to me. For instance, when…
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Can Mozilla Thunderbird show sent replies in threaded view?

I would like for Thunderbird to show replies to threaded messages in with the received messages. Is this possible, even with an extension? The desired behavior would be something like how Zimbra's threaded email view works.
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Breaking the Outlook 2010 e-mail blue quote line for inline responses

UPDATE: I've finally figured out a way to comprehensively fix this problem, though it took a lot of work and the creation of an Outlook 2010 addin! See below for the addin download. As far as I'm aware, though, there is no way to deal with this…
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Why does Google call Thunderbird "less secure"?

I've never had problems using Gmail with Thunderbird yet, but while trying to use a free software client for Google Talk/Chat/Hangout I've discovered that, according to Google's document on "less secure apps": Some examples of apps that do not…
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View full message headers on Outlook 2011 for Mac

How can I view the full headers of a message with Outlook 2011 for Mac?
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