cannot send email from hotmail to google app email

Email contains error messages got from hotmail:

From: postmaster@mail.hotmail.com
To: kkk@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:39:46 -0700
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

       xxx@yyy.zzz


Reporting-MTA: dns;col0-omc1-s10.col0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;COL107-W41
Arrival-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:39:36 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;xxx@yyy.zzz
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.7.1 <xxx@yyy.zzz>: Relay access denied

It is because hotmail server tries to send email through yyy.zzz server which is not the email server (google's). Actually, hotmail should find address of email server by asking for MX record from the domain yyy.zzz instead.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/apps/mail-settings/Yd0JG0jRn7M

e72, Mail for Exchange with no ssl

In Nokia E72, if you want to use Mail for Exchange without ssl, you also have to change port number from port 443 to 80, manually.

How to redirect all chat message to email

And then reply chat message back via email!

Today, AIS EDGE has problem with Nokia Messaging Email

Since last night, Nokia Messaging running on an N97 has got connection problem to the email server. The problem still exists until now at 0626PM EST.

2 separated email accounts

Now I have 2 email accounts. One is gmail.com and another one is ovi.vom.
The gmail one is for everything which consists of:

• notification emails from any website I subscribe to such as facebook, google calendar, forum post
• newsletter
• password recovery
• non human sent emails
• mailing list
• some human sent emails which I don't tell them yet about my ovi mail

The ovi one is just for emails that I use to talk with friends in such a way that when I look at my INBOX, I will feel like it is like SMS or a chat log. Simply said ovi is for emails from human who intends to talk with me.

What do you think about this approach?

offlineimap and curses

oops... offlineimap dies whenever the terminal emulator's width is lower than some specific value with an error thrown from Curses.py...!!! wtf with a text based program that gets affected from the terminal width... grr

Nokia Messaging, latest edition, works like a charm

Get it at: http://email.nokia.com

Until earlier this year, Nokia Messaging still did not work (at least with my Nokia E71). It made me have to pay to:

•  mail2web.com for a Microsoft Exchange email service
• RoadSync, a M$ Exchange client for Symbian, as MailForExchange by Nokia consumes too much battery, can support not more than 400 emails in my INBOX and also allows me access to only my INBOX.

But just last week, I downloaded the latest version of Nokia Messaging and it just works! It can sync my gmail, all mail folders! And it consumes very small battery power! I can keep it always on for a full day and my battery decreases only 1 bar!!! I think Nokia must have changed the entire email for nokia development team heh

Right now, it's still free for use.

--
unsigned nerd

RE: Content Removal #38391

--- original message ---

From: "Object" <Object@store.ovi.com>

Subject: Content Removal #38391

Date: 25th September 2009

Time: 12:52:29 AM

Dear unsigned_nerd,

We are informing you that we have removed the following comment from your account in Ovi Store:

There is a problem with Nokia E71. You cannot use the latest version of MfE. The problem is that in always on mode, the connection to the Exchange server will just keep failing. To make it work, you have to use a specific version of MfE which you can get it here: http://unsigned-nerd.blogspot.com

We have removed the comment since it appears to violate the Ovi Store content guidelines.

Nokia is committed to providing a safe and fun service for the consumers. Repeated violations of the content guidelines may lead to termination of the account. Please continue to use Ovi Store but please review the Content Guidelines for what is not allowed on the service.

Thank you,

Ovi Store Moderation Team


If you have any questions, feel free to ...

Mail for Exchange stops working when there are too many emails in the inbox

Today my Mail for Exchange 2.7 (symbian) just stopped working. When I started the synchronization, it just showed error. I noticed that my inbox contained around 420 emails. I then went to the web interface of my Exchange provider and moved all the emails in my inbox into my archived folder and then everything just works! This maybe a limitation of Mail for Exchange 2.7!

how to rename default folder in microsoft exchange mailbox

• You cannot rename the folder from Outlook Web Access
• You cannot rename the folder from Microsoft Outlook
• You can rename the folder from IMAP.  You can also set Microsoft Outlook to connect to the Exchange server using IMAP to rename the folder too.
• You can rename the folder by invoking Outllook with /ResetFolders switch too.

mutt - screen - fetchmail

As mutt does not print out new mail notification to xterm title for some reason (alpine and msnlib do), there is no easy way to notify the new mail if we are not on the mutt screen.  By using screen and fetchmail (together with a cronjob), we can get this resolved.

1. create ~/.fetchmailrc with this configurations:

poll mail.someserver.ca

proto IMAP 

user "your_username"

pass "your_password"

2. have this perl script in your ~/bin/ directory:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$_ = `fetchmail -c`;

s/(.*\)).*/$1/;

print;

 name it get_mail (chmod +x get_mail)


3. add this line into your crontab (scheduled for every 5 minutes):

*/5 * * * * ~/bin/get_mail > ~/bin/get_mail.out

4. edit your ~/.screenrc file to contain 2 lines like this:

caption always "%{+b bk}$USER@%{wk}%H | %{yk}(load: %l |%{rk} cpu: %1` | %{Gk}net: %2` | %{mk}mail: %3`) %-21=%{wk}%D %d.%m.%Y %0c"

backtick 3 150 150 cat /home/your_username/bin/get_mail.out  

the important part is: "%{mk}mail: %3`".  The 150 means 150 seconds.

With this, you will see the number of new emails in your screen status bar (within 5 minutes interval at most).

mutt and imap - checking new mail interval

Here comes another important setting. This is only required for IMAP with mutt. The default time for checking new emails is 600 seconds (10 minutes) which is too low. The recommended setting for imap is 15 seconds which you can set it by:

set timeout=15

in your .muttrc file.

mutt mime type problem with microsoft exchange

Microsoft Exchange has been lying people that it supports 8bit mime.  You have to disable 8bit mime in mutt or else you will not be able to forward/reply some emails (with mime) to any of the emails that are on the exchange server. The error message will be sent in an email.

To disable this, you have to set:

set allow_8bit=no

in your .muttrc file. You will find that variable in .muttrc with a default value already. I had to do this setting when I used alpine too.

Good luck.

Using Pine With Imap On an Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server which supports IMAP. Below is the piece of configurations for pine to use IMAP on duckass (a server):

inbox-path={duckass.com/user=duck}inbox
folder-collections=mail\[],
"IMAP Folders" {duckass.com/user=duck/notls/novalidate-cert}[]
default-fcc={duckass.com/user=duck}inbox
postponed-folder={duckass.com/user=duck}Drafts
trash-folder={duckass.com/user=duck}Trash

alpine - email client

Looking for a text based email client?
Try alpine:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Apple Mail Font Problem with Microsoft Outlook and the Rest of the World

People have a lot of problems when they have to send emails from Apple Mail to the recipients that use Microsoft Outlook as their email client.  The problem is that the font that is shown to the recipients who use Microsoft Outlook will be Times New Roman 12pt regardless of whatever font you set with Apple Mail Preferences.

As I searched from Google, I found 3 interesting threads:

• http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-27384.html
• http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6699246
• http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1701124&tstart=0

The #1 link says that the Font that we see in Apple Mail is shown correctly in Outlook only the signature part.

The #2 link says that we can use Stationery to accomplish the same result like #1 link but the problem is:

The #3 link says that we can use the Stationery only when we Compose a new email.  This means when we forward or reply the email, we can't use this method.

I have come up to a working solution which is quite easy.   I use Signature to solve this problem.

I created a signature with Verdana font like this:

>
> Hi _,
>
> <put content here>
>
> Thanks,
>
> unsigned_nerd
>

Then every time I compose a new email or reply/forward an email, the signature will show up and I put my email message in the "<put content here>".

It WORKS!

NOTE THAT we can use only Fonts that don't have a space in their name and exist in Windows.

For example, I can't use "Courier New" but I can use "Courier".