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Archive for October, 2007

Gmail Now Supports IMAP Email Protocol

Announced at Interop New York, the e-mail feature synchs with Outlook Express, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Apple Mail, Windows Mail, and Thunderbird 2.0.

Gmail users can now use IMAP to synchronize e-mail on their iPhones and desktops.

Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, announced the release of IMAP support in Gmail Wednesday at Interop New York. Glotzbach, a keynote speaker, said Gmail account holders can begin using IMAP immediately.

He held it up as an example of Google’s attempts at continuous innovation, saying it’s one of many new features Google has added since launching Google Applications in February.

“IMAP isn’t new, but bringing it together is,” he said.

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Changing the default IMAP Sent Mail Folder for Outlook 2003

The following instructions provide a way to save your sent messages in a folder on the mail server so they can be accessed from multiple machines/clients.

So as not to ruffle anyone’s feathers, this information is (obviously) from the MIT helpdesk, although the steps are defined by Microsoft and are in the public domain.

So, by default, Outlook 2003 saves sent email locally within the Sent Items Folder. These instructions do not affect this behavior, so you will be saving two copies of each sent message (one locally and another on the mail server). If you do not want to keep a saved copy locally, go to Tools>Options. On the Preferences tab, click e-mail options and clear the “Save copies of messages in sent items folder”.

To configure Outlook to save a copy of your sent messages in an IMAP folder on the mail server:
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Conventional vs Unconventional

Mr. Matt H., one of the co-owners and chief designer here at Durrani, has submitted a design to Threadless (www.threadless.com). The design is called “Conventional vs. Unconventional”. At Threadless, the top voted-on designs get turned into printed t-shirts so jump over to Threadless and vote now! (click the image below).

Conventional vs UnConventional - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever