There’s a bit of dissent out there in the email universe with those that would deter users from working with the most popular electronic mail client in the world: Gmail. The folks at Microsoft’s Outlook.com have struck a potential blow against the email giant this week with a guide that aims to make the switch […]
This article was written on April 07, 2008 by CyberNet.
Google Apps users who have years (or just a few months worth) of emails stored in Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird, now have a very simple way to upload those messages to a Google Apps mailbox (Gmail). Google just launched an open source desktop utility called Google Email Uploader that gets the job done. The best part is that the sent dates from all of your messages are kept in-tact and folders that you may have are converted to Gmail Labels. Not only is this utility for old email messages, it is also an uploader for all of your contacts.
Google describes the Email Uploader as:
The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.
At this point there are a few downsides. The first is that it’s available only for Windows XP and Windows Vista. The second is that this is something that isn’t available for the regular Gmail users. Google says that you must have a Google Apps Premier, Education, or Partner version of Google Apps in order to use this, however some people are reporting that this only works for Google Apps Premier subscribers. Google Operating System writes that you’ll receive an error message if you’re not a Premier subscriber (this is the paid version of Google Apps) which says, “you are not authorized to use this feature.”
Above is a screenshot of what you’d see if you downloaded the utility and started the process of uploading old messages. If you have Google Apps either the Education or Partner version and you try this out, be sure to let us know if you received the error message. It’s supposed to work for all Google Apps users but it may not work out that way and Google may have some tweaking they need to do.
Download the Google Email Uploader Here
Thanks for the tip Trip!
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The team behind Inbox Cube are not satisfied with the way email looks and functions on mobile devices. They’ve decided to create their own unique interface, one that centers not just on the user’s ability to customize the way they recieve emails, but in the way the whole experience is unleashed. Here the folks at […]
This article was written on December 18, 2007 by CyberNet.
Day! Hard to believe, isn’t it? Spam eats 512 terabytes of space each and every single day. This is just an extremely rough estimate, and it’s likely that it’s in fact more than 512 terabytes each day. Pingdom came up with this estimate after finding out that there are about 120 billion spam emails that pollute the web each day. Then they sampled the amount of spam that their office mail server got to determine the average size of each message which was 4.27 kilobytes. Multiply 4.27 kilobytes by the 120 billion spam messages each day and you come up with 512 terabytes. If you were to take into consideration the size of the spam messages which are one giant image, the number would likely be quite a bit more. In all, I’d say that their number is on the low side.
So what does this all mean? Well, for starters, that’s a lot of wasted bandwidth, wouldn’t you say? To put this into perspective, one terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes. More interesting is that the cost of a one terabyte drive is about $250. If you had enough of these to cover the 512 terabytes that are eaten every day, it comes out to $128,000 worth of hard drive space each day! That helps explain why mail services such as Gmail will automatically delete your spam messages after so many days. Yes, it’s a convenience for their users, but think about how much extra space they’d need to handle millions of spam messages that just sat there and never got deleted.
Pingdom points out a few additional reasons why spam does us no good whatsoever:
This all helps explain why the FBI takes spamming seriously, and why one of the top 10 spammers in the world was recently arrested for conducting his “business.”
Enough of this spam already!…
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This article was written on August 20, 2010 by CyberNet.
I normally don’t post scripts and batch files that I use, but I wanted to share this particular script because I use it all the time. VBScript files are nice because typically they are simply coded, and work across virtually all Windows-powered machines. You just have to throw the code in a .VBS file, and from there it can be executed in your batch files very easily.
The contents of the file are below, and once set up you’ll be able to send emails using any Gmail account straight from the command prompt. In the code there are two things that you need to configure: the email address and password of the account you want to send as. When executing the VBScript file you simply pass it three parameters: recipient email address, subject line, and the body of the email. There is an optional fourth parameter that it accepts which is the file path to a file you want to attach to the email. That’s it.
Why do I use this all the time? I can easily call this file from other scripts or batch files so that it sends me an email notification whenever something completes. Sometimes I use it just to have a nice history of when some of my batch files complete (or to verify that they even ran), but other times I will insert “dynamic” text into the body of the email. For example, if an error occurred I may have it put the error message in the body of the email. An alternative to that would be attaching a log file using the optional fourth parameter.
The nice thing about the way this script works is that you’ll be able to send emails without setting up an SMTP server on your machine. Of course you won’t be able to send out mass quantities of emails since Google limits you to around 500 sent messages per day, but that should be more than adequate for personal purposes.
Let’s take a look at what the code looks like…
Code begins here:
'Usage: cscript sendemail.vbs <email_recipient@example.com> "<subject_line>" "<email_body>" "<optional:email_attachment_path>" 'Ex. No attach: cscript sendemail.vbs example@gmail.com "test subject line" "test email body" 'Ex. W/ attach: cscript sendemail.vbs example@gmail.com "test subject line" "test email body" "c:\scripts\log.txt" '*********** '****CONFIGURE THE FROM EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD Const fromEmail = "email_sender@gmail.com" Const password = "password" '****END OF CONFIGURATION '*********** Dim emailObj, emailConfig Set emailObj = CreateObject("CDO.Message") emailObj.From = fromEmail emailObj.To = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) emailObj.Subject = WScript.Arguments.Item(1) emailObj.TextBody = WScript.Arguments.Item(2) If WScript.Arguments.Count > 3 Then emailObj.AddAttachment WScript.Arguments.Item(3) End If Set emailConfig = emailObj.Configuration emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.gmail.com" emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 465 emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1 emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = true emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = fromEmail emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = password emailConfig.Fields.Update emailObj.Send Set emailobj = nothing Set emailConfig = nothing
^ That is the end of the code (Download the Script) ^
You can see that the code starts with example usage of how you can call the VBScript file. Given the nature of executing VBScript files you may or may not have to include the “cscript” portion, but in general you are always better off having it there to ensure that it will run on your computer just fine. Here’s an example of what it looks like when being executed from the command prompt:
Note: The “sendemail.vbs” file was located at the root of the C Drive when I ran this.
Armed with this script you should be able to take it and throw it into batch files, or call it from anywhere that can execute things via the command line. One thing you may want to consider is creating an extra email account just for sending these emails. Not only will that keep your “sent mail” clean in your primary Gmail account, but it will also be a bit more secure since the password for the sender account is stored in plain text within the script.
Here is a nicely formatted version of the VBScript from above that you can download, and have all ready to go for you (after you fill in the two email/password inside the script file, of course):
Download a Zipped Copy of the VBScript
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What the heck is up with all that email, Twitter? For a better experience, turn that nonsense off.
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Google has fully baked Google Drive integration into Gmail, aiming to circumvent traditional attachment downloads by saving them straight to its chunk of cloud storage. The functionality, Google says, effectively bypasses the usual download/upload routine of receiving email attachments and then storing them to the cloud, with a one-click shuttling from email to Drive and […]
Android KitKat was just announced yesterday
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Lavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email service that applies peer-to-peer encryption to both the body of your message and its metadata (at least, between Dark Mail accounts).
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As we’ve previously reported, both Lavabit and Silent Circle have shut down their encrypted email services in recent times, with Lavabit having been shut down due to government demands and Silent Circle shuttering its email service as a preemptive strike against the same sort of problems. Now the two have joined forces as the first […]
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