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Only yesterday, I saw a client who was frustrated by the amount of SPAM/Junk email that she receives every day.
She told me that she has ‘unsubscribed’ from so many of them, this just seems to generate more Junk. Unfortunately, the ‘unsubscribing’ from the junk emails may be the very thing that is causing further junk. You should only ever unsubscribe from emails that come from businesses you know are legitimate - and even then, make sure that the email is truly from that business. Unsubscribing from unsolicited emails only serves to notify the sender that you are a legitimate email address - something they may not have known, given that they will (most likely) be working from a list received illegally. That makes you a much more attractive target for future junk and phishing/malware emails. Instead of unsubscribing from such emails, simply mark them as Junk or move them to your Junk mailbox. By marking them as Junk, you are helping to send a message to the rest of the 'internet' that the sender is not trustworthy. Here is a recent article on this very topic: Unsubscribing From Unwanted Email Carries Risks
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In a separate article we looked at how to send a Word document from the Word App on the iPad and iPhone.
But how do you do the same from the Pages app on these devices?  Club member Bruce B has asked today if there is a way that you can get back to the top of your Inbox without having to swipe repetitively.
The good news is that there is. 
One of the topics discussed at Friday's iPad and iPhone user group related to image sizes, and how to adjust the size of images you send.
 In a week that featured multiple clients with problems sending emails - which, co-incidentally were all Bigpond emails - one client had an issue where, all of a sudden, her Outlook for Windows app would not allow her to send emails
 A client at iTandCoffee today had a puzzling error on her iPhone that was preventing her from sending any emails from her Bigpond email account.
The error she started getting only a few days earlier was 'The recipient "recipient-email-address" was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying'.  Just yesterday, I met with a client who had suffered a business disaster. The web developer who looked after hosting of her website and her mail had suffered a major cyber-attack, one that resulted in the loss of not only her complete website, but also all of her business mail.
Because her Mail account was installed as an IMAP style of mail account, one that synchronises across all devices, the loss of the mail by her mail host meant that she also lost the mail from the iPad and iPhone on which she relies for all her business communications. While the loss of the email history is a disaster for her, even more of disaster is the loss of the contact information that was held in that mail.  Many Telstra Bigpond email users have the frustration of having to manage their mail on multiple device. When they read, delete or send an email on one device, this does not reflect on their other device/s. This type of email account is called POP.
These days, most people prefer mail accounts to be of the type IMAP. IMAP mail accounts synchronise between all devices, so that you don't have to 'double-handle' your mail, and so that you can see your sent mail on all your devices. The Webmail version of the mail account (which you can access via your web browser) shows the same set of mail as your device/s. Some mail services support both POP and IMAP. It is how your mail account is installed on your device that determines whether it will be a POP or IMAP style account - and therefore whether your mail will sync across devices.
At times, there are emails that we send that are very important - emails for which we anxiously await a reply.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could receive a special alert when a response to such an email is received? While I don't mind hearing a sound when each email is received, I do not want see notification 'banners' for all my emails. Nor do I want email notifications appearing on my lock screen and in the notification history. It would just get annoying, given the number of emails that arrive each day. However, there are occasional email responses that I want to be notified about. If you are a user of the Mail app on the iPad and iPhone, there is a symbol that you may never have noticed, on that allows you to indicate that you want a special alert when you receive a reply to a particular email. |
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