GmailInside: January 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

About Email: Reply in a Big Window from Gmail

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From Heinz Tschabitscher

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Heinz

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How to Reply in a Big Window from Gmail

Need to do something 45 days first after Christmas (and then every 34 days)?
In task manager Remember the Milk, you can enter dates such as "Dec 70" and get a task scheduled for February 8.
Now, from big dates in one online tool to big replies in another—whether you need to reply 45 days after Christmas or right now:
›› You can get a full window and (just about) screen dedicated to nothing but composing your email reply in Gmail.

How to Create an Outlook.com Email Account

You've used a calque before. I can see it at the tip of your nose.
From the French "calquer"—to copy—, calque is another word for a loan translation—when a phrase or a word's parts are taken over literally. Common examples in English include "long time no see" from Mandarin Chinese, "concertmaster" from German and "wisdom tooth" from Latin.
Now, calque is a way to make a new word for yourself; to find out how to make yourself a new email address and account at Outlook.com, have a look-see:
›› Get a new email address at outlook.com, live.com or hotmail.com—and the Outlook.com account that goes with it, of course.

Forever Lovers – Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

Is not lovely this apple especially on the outside with its round cheeks checkered golden, ruby and cantaloupe?
How about putting it to the test and your peeling skills as well, perhaps? So the story goes: with a sharp knife, cut loose the whole skin so it forms one long and continuous coil; throw that peel over your shoulder.
Did the peel break anywhere? You will, alas, not see your love (today, I presume). If the coil stays whole, however, get ready for a—lovely—rendezvous!
In the meantime, how about a Valentine's day email? It shall be lovely, too, of course:
›› While this lovely letter is sent in seconds, love's dimension is eternity. (IncrediMail)

Peony Valentine's Day - IncrediMail Letter and E-Card (From the Archives)

A spear in his stomach, Ares has been wounded badly. Clearly Athena's machination.—There's no time to lose, though: Zeus himself, in spite of his hate for Ares, hurries to the scene a physician. With a flower, the physician mends the war god's gut.
The physician's name was Paion, and the flower was later named for him: peony. Can it mend broken hearts, too, or bring love in the first place?
›› Ask with a lovely peony: "Wilt thou be my Valentine?". (IncrediMail)

Monday, January 20, 2014

About Email: How MIME Works

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From Heinz Tschabitscher

Here's to a positive week!
Heinz

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Open an Email's Source (Incl. Message Headers) in Postbox

Most are darkly brown to deeply gray round blobs of about a third of a meter (1.1 feet). The color depends on how deep (some 1 to 40 meters; 3.3 to 131 feet) beneath the sea's surface a specimen is found and can be a bright yellow, too, or black.
Not much hints at it, yet spongia officinalis—the blob—is the source of the marvelous sponge found in baths since antiquity.
Found sometimes in baths, too, and perhaps under sea are, of course, emails. Depending on the complexity—including various scripts, encodings and attachments —, an email's source may have not much to do at first glance with the email it produces; in Postbox, you can have that glance (or a detailed inspection, say of the email's headers) easily:
›› Find out what lies behind an email with its source code. That source includes all header lines and the code that makes up the message's body and included files. In Postbox, accessing the source for a message is easy.

How MIME Works

A German chancellor invented a "universal gardening tool".
Before he would become head of state, Konrad Adenauer took a rake of the garden variety and added a not unusual — though, it seems, massive—hammerhead on top. The hammer would allow for annoying clumps of soil to be broken up while raking—without the need for another tool. In the literature, this concoction appears as the "universal gardening tool".
While we ponder the universality of such an implement, let us find out how MIME takes a plain text email of the garden variety and adds any format or file—at times, of course, massive—on top:
›› Find out how the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) work to let you send attachments with your email messages.

How to View an Email's Source in Opera Mail

"Year 5," reads the label, and: "the Western River. By the chief vintner Khaa."
This wine label is now in a museum. Before, it lay for some 3,200 years, mostly undisturbed presumably, together with cake, berries, bread, cheese and more in King Tutankhamun's tomb.
Apparently, wine drinkers then, too, did want to know whence their drink came in place and time. If you want to know that about an email you received in Opera Mail (or investigate the origins of its parts), you can consult the label—on the metaphorical back:
›› Curious about an email's path? Interested why its text may not display correctly? Gain access to all email headers and the source to a message's text (as well as attachments) in Opera Mail.

Bonne Nuit - IncrediMail Letter and E-Card (From the Archives)

The sun escaping,
Woman under a roof.
That's how you wish "good night" in Mandarin: the escaping sun (晚, wǎn) depicts the evening; a woman under a roof (安, ān) indicates tranquility and peace. Of course, a night can also be good and peaceful clinging to the moon:
›› It's bonne nuit for the cute bear in this letter, and good night for you. (IncrediMail)

Monday, January 13, 2014

About Email: Contact Outlook.com Support

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Here's to a supportive week!
Heinz

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How to Contact Outlook.com Support

When you have just licked frozen chocolate and are therefore (given what you have read about that chocolate's ill effects on health and stomach) understandably queasy, what should you do?
The Earl of Sandwich knows. Great-great-grandfather to the Earl of sandwich fame and collecting chocolate recipes in the 1640s (before he became the first Earl of Sandwich), Edward Mountagu recommends: wait some 15 minutes and—" Drinke Hott chocolatti"!
When you are queasy about Outlook.com (no matter what has happened before), what should you do? Somebody from Outlook.com support or the helpful users' community shall, hopefully, know. (Why not also a hot chocolate for the nerves and stomach while you wait the 15 minutes or so?)
›› Does Outlook.com behave oddly and in frustrating a manner? Do you feel sure something should be possible to do in Outlook.com, but how to do it is less than obvious? Do you long for help and support? You can contact and get answers from both support engineers at Microsoft and helpful users via Outlook.com's community help forums.

How to Restore Mail from the Archive in Zoho Mail

Amber is washed ashore at the sae and will not float in a bowl of water.
The difference, of course, is in the water. Amber is just bit denser than water and sinks. This is true for freshwater. Saltwater gets denser with each teaspoon of salt added and eventually will carry the amber (as it will, naturally, humans).
Now, to raise to the surface archived mail in Zoho Mail, there is some metaphorical salt to add:
›› Need archived mail more readily at hand, or want to make it available via IMAP? In Zoho Mail, restoring messages and entire folders to regular folders from archived ones is easy.

How to Access the Source for an Email Message in Outlook.com

Originally from Scotland, a physician has in short course become first professor for Practical and Theoretical chemistry at the Medical School of Melbourne University, Aussie rules football umpire, member of parliament and secretary to the Philosophical Society of Victoria (or one of its successor societies). It is in this last capacity that he appears in history connected to nuts.
For when Sir Ferdinand Mueller first described scientifically a genus of nuts native to Australia, he not only mentioned his friend and "deserving secretary of our institute", he also named the nut after him: macadamia.
So, Mueller and Dr. John Macadam are the sources for the name of one of earth's most beloved nuts. For even more sources—not for names this time and nuts but for emails and headers—, let us turn to peeking behind what is usually visible of emails in Outlook.com:
›› Find out more about an email (for troubleshooting its display, e.g., or learning more about its origin) by displaying its source in Outlook.com.

From the Archives: Zebras - IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

It's a small square, but you've got to divide it further with your pen (not necessarily in straight lines). Only then can you fill the areas with doodles—and perfect is the Zentangle.
Zebras, of course, have long been doodling on their backs, even in groups—and perfect is the email stationery:
›› Zebras are striped animals, they are beautiful animals, and they are in this IncrediMail letter. (IncrediMail)