Email

Windows

How to Remove Addresses from the Entourage Address Cache - support.microsoft.com

I haven't found much worth posting lately but this one has been a thorn in my side for some time. I find it equally as interesting that you need to jump through so many hoops in Entourage when the same issue in Outlook can be solved with one or two clicks. I hope some people find this helpful.

How to Remove Addresses from the Entourage Address Cache

Entourage provides an address cache feature that allows you to pick frequently used addresses from a list as you type in one of the recipient fields. This cache contains all of the addresses from messages that you send and receive.

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macOS

AutoArchive Exchange Account in Entourage - entourage.mvps.org

| AutoArchive Exchange Account to "On My Computer" | Move all e-mail older than 60 days from your Exchange account folders to archive folders within the "On My Computer" folder tree.

Download script

TO CREATE AN AUTO-ARCHIVE SCHEDULE

Save AutoArchive AppleScript to your Microsoft User Data folder: Entourage Script Menu Items.

| 1. Menu path: Tools/Schedules | 2. New button | 3. Name "AutoArchive"

When "Timed Occurrence" -- I set mine to every night at 3 AM

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Web Development

Over 160 Free Personal Information Managers

Over 160 Free Personal Information Managers - lifehack.org

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The best type of software for productivity is personal information manager (PIM). They are softwares which help you oraganising your personal information, such as contacts, calendars, emails, notes etc. To give you choices, find out what are available on the Internet and fits you, Listible has a huge list (over 160) of PIMs. There are Windows & Mac based software; web based, and all of them are free:

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macOS

Gmail Notifier for Mac OSX

| Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X from Greg Miller of googleblog.blogspot.com. | Here is a little tool for you Mac based Gmail users.

The app is small and nonintrusive, but hopefully still has all the features a Mac user would want. With it you can:

| - view messages without opening a browser | - open Gmail in your browser without forcing you to log in again | - make Gmail your default email program | - even more...

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Security

Email "Spamming" and Email "Spoofing"

Here is a snip of a great article explaining Virus Spoofing from www.lse.ac.uk:

Email-distributed viruses that use spoofing, such the Klez or Sobig virus, take a random name from somewhere on the infected personís hard disk and mail themselves out as if they were from that randomly chosen address. Recipients of these viruses are therefore misled as to the address from which they were sent, and may end up complaining to, or alerting the wrong person. As a result, users of uninfected computers may be wrongly informed that they have, and have been distributing a virus.†

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