She tried without any luck after I have fixed the problem for her. That is when she asked me again and I tried, it works smoothly. Couldn’t believe it, she tried again and this time everything works fine.

‘Can I have a picture of you?’ She asked

Astonished at first, but I am soon to find out that she teasingly want to have my picture put on their PCs to serve as ‘門神’. Ancient Chinese way of protecting the safety of home.

門神是中國住宅和佛教道教寺廟大門處的神像，亦見於朝鮮、越南，主要貼在大門或後門，佛教道教寺廟也會在山門處設有門神塑像。門神是木版年畫的主要題材之一。民間傳說最廣的是左右門分別貼的是秦瓊與敬德（尉遲恭），單門則貼的是魏徵或是鍾馗。

Of course, you can safelist/whitelist that particular email address so that it will not be marked as Spam in future. But, this does not solve the problem forever, and it works to your mail server only.

To know why, check the header of the Spamm’ed mail. In Outlook Express, right click on the email and view the Message Properties. Find the line which contains the score of your Spam. Usually, anything more than 6 are marked as Spam. Higher marks means this email do not pass most of the Spam tests.

If you are keen on what test the email failed, check this out

Yet, many of us are spending more time emailing than visiting our own corporate website!

Technically speaking, email and web hosting are two completely different services, except that both of them share the same DNS servers. DNS servers host zone file that contains pointing information for both email and web requests.

This means, you can host your email with one service provider while web hosting with another.

Best when you will be primarily accessing your email from a single location, like your office or home. When you leave your office or home, you can still access your email from a web browser.

Messages are downloaded to your computer, so you don’tneed to worry about exceeding the size of your mailbox.

When accessing your email account through a web browser, you may not see previous messages that were downloaded to your desktop email client.

IMAP

Best when you will be accessing your email from multiple locations.

Allows you to create portable folders. These folders will appear in each email client you use to access your account. Your account will look the same at work, at home, and at your friend’s house.

Because your email messages are stored on the server, you must monitor your mailbox size and delete messages to avoid exceeding your mailbox size.

Gmail just announced the unique new features, which expect to solve the problem of forget-to-logout, especially when you using public computers.

One need not to be unsured again! You can check your status from your Gmail, and logout any session if you want. How I wish I have one for my mum for her kettle, so we won’t have to turn back half way everytime when we are going somewhere.

You are using email clients such as Outlook or Outlook Express. Your notebook is not with you, and you have some old email to retrieve from your Webmail. The default setting in Outlook Express download all messages from the incoming mail server and remove them from server. That means, it leave no copy of messages in the server. If, you have huge space and you might run into some similiar case above, check ‘Leave a copy…’. It can help!

Just one thing, keeping too many email in your email server, might slow down your Outlook Express. Everytime when you download the message from the server, it takes some little longer time to initiate.

You have something to discuss, but your team members are scattered in different locations, working on different timezone… One good thing I like about discussion through email is, a loose questions get the feedback from those who has time for a quick reply. This can in fact, save time in face-to-face meeting, yet proven to be more productive. For sure, this might not work in all cases, especially if the team members are not used to this. This is an culture to nurture.