Posted by: pin on: 28 Feb, 2008
“1 out of every 10 notebook (laptop) computeres will be stolen within the first 12 months of purchase. 90% of them will never be recovered. -FBI Statistic-”
Apart from the data security breach, losing all your email without backup can be a serious business interruption!
Posted by: pin on: 28 Feb, 2008
Outlook or Outlook Express are both email clients that allow you to download your email from the mail server to your computer, instead of browsing it online using Webmail.
Email to you are stored in the mail server. Email clients connect to this mail server (we call it Incoming mail server, eg pop.emailsrvr.com) and download the email. After downloading, the email will no longer available in the mail server, unless you have enabled the option ‘Leave copy of email in mail server for xxx days’.
Sending out email works slightly different from receiving email. Theorically, you can use any outgoing mail server (or, you can call it SMTP server) to send out your email as long as it allows you to do so. That means you can switch around SMTP servers in your email clients if for some reason the one you are currently using is down.
Few things you need to understand while setting up the SMTP server in your email clients. Most SMTP mail servers require authentication. Examples:
Streamyx SMTP: smtp-proxy.tm.net.my, running on port 25
Streamyx check if you are using their broadband before allowing you to use their SMTP. Therefore, you don’t need to activate any authentication in your email clients.
1.com.my’s SMTP: smtp.emailsrvr.com, running on port 25
You need to login to use. The login info is the same as the one you use to check your email. Therefore you need to select ‘use same setting as Incoming mail server’.
Gmail SMTP: smtp.gmail.com, running on port 465
Gmail SMTP is a secure mail server. Your email client will send your composed email to Gmail SMTP using a secure connection with encryption. Again, Gmail SMTP require authentication too. Enter your Gmail login info in the Authentication settings. You need to indicate that your SMTP is running on secure connection, look for ‘This servers require a secure connection (SSL)’.
By understand how your email client works, you will have no problem to setup your Outlook or Outlook Express quick!
Few things to take note, most of email service provider use your email address as username. Also, if you have change your password (usually done via Webmail), you need to update your password in email clients too.
Posted by: pin on: 28 Feb, 2008
If you are using Outlook Express and you have lot of email to manage daily, you should really try to enable the Conversion View! It sorts your messages in thread orders. No doubt, this can be sometimes kinda confusing because some new incoming message jump to nowhere hidden in the thread, but when you have used to it, it will become a Must-have!
Posted by: pin on: 12 Feb, 2008
I was referred to RealMetrics, the leading publisher of unbiased metrics for online service providers. Their Email Hosting report compares the Uptime, Message Delivery Reliability, Message Delivery Latency, and Support Response Time of the top Email Hosting providers.
Apparently, Mailtrust is in their list and stay at the top-most position, showing undoubtly the most reliable performance. We are proud to be their exclusive partner in Malaysia, visit us at www.1.com.my.
Posted by: pin on: 03 Feb, 2008
Through the TM’s speedometer can give you rough ideas of how fast or the bandwidth of your broadband connection, but I am doubt with how accurate would be the result. As a matter of fact, the speedometer scripts are hosted in servers located in TM’s network. It is considered local and internal peering. If, the scripts are hosted in other data centre in Malaysia such as NTT or Jaring IDC, you may get very different results of what you are expecting!
Yet, another fact is, it is on port 8080, not the standard 80 (http)! This can be misleading!
Posted by: pin on: 03 Feb, 2008
Each email alias you create simply forwards any message on to any email address that you specify. Most email service providers do not limit number of aliases one can have, but restricted to certain number of email address you can forward to.
It is handy for generic email such as sales@domain.com to forward to another email address. Thus, save you the cost of subscribing additional POP3 account. The only restriction is, you can’t send out email through Email Alias. But, you can override this if you are on Gmail, using the Gmail’s Identity features.
