Tag: mail

  • Careful with that email

    When you are building systems like my Keep on Posting or my DNSk9 that send emails there’s always the danger that you’ll accidentally fire emails from your development machine to real users. You really don’t want to do that because it’s annoying and extremely unprofessional. It happened to me a couple of times. Thankfully, nothing…

  • Obsolete email addresses (a feature request)

    This is a feature I wish my programs I’m using to read email had. Sometimes, some people change email address. It happens, to some more than to others. When that happens I don’t change the email address for that person in my contact list. I add the new address. The reasons is that I still…

  • I'm changing how I deal with spam

    My email address, pupeno@pupeno.com, existed since around 1998 and was never obfuscated or protected in any way. Spam wasn’t such a huge problem in those days. Today my Spam folder has 3200 mails. My spam filter is quite good, but I still like going through my spam in case some non-spam message was thrown in…