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Fun with Gmail Tabs via IMAP

Like Gmail tabs? Want their categories to trickle down into your email client, if you’re not using Gmail's email client? Do you ever wish that the categories would show up as IMAP folders in Thunderbird? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, this clever hack might be the one for you. As noted here and elsewhere, Gmail tabs aren’t directly exposed to IMAP. There is no “Promot…
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Email Hosting Hacks: No longer working?

I've seen a significant number of folks asking for help lately on various mailing lists and online forums ( like Reddit ), saying that they're now having trouble with email authentication, starting sometime in April, 2025. In this post , the author talks about DMARC fai…

Nerd break: QP PSA from JWZ

If you've ever gotten down and dirty, deep into the guts of email technology, you know what Quoted-Printable is. If not, be informed that it is a type of content coding quite often used when building and sending email messages. It's more-or-less human readable, definit…

Double your DMARC fun with two reporting destinations

I was talking to a friend last week about DMARC reports. Her friend, who’s a bit of an email nerd (yay!) runs his own email domain and has DMARC reports for his own domain coming back directly to him. He does this because he’s got that nerd gene and putting those DMARC reports …