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AOL knows how, occasionally, to make some waves in the press. Pointing out that Americans are hooked on email, with some statistics, got picked up all over the place. Addicted to e-mail? You’re not alone is the News.com summary of the survey results. I come down on the “need e-mail” portion of each one of [...]

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AOL has blocked e-mail from my domain, which is frustrating to both me and my wife. Why? Someone in the same IP range at Verio probably sent something dodgy to AOL… or so AOL says. I hope it’s truly only temporary, no more than the 24 hours cited.
Yahoo Groups has been more consistently annoying. I [...]

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Jeremy Zawodny asks “Is your email inbox a stack or a queue?” In simpler, less geeky terms… do you sort so new messages show up on top (stack) or bottom (queue) of your inbox?
I’m all about the stack, both at work (Outlook) and at home (Mail). First, I like to know what’s new and scan [...]

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About a week ago, thanks to Ian Holsman, I set up a Gmail account. While the last thing I need is another e-mail account, I was as curious as everyone else. To test the account, I’m publishing, in text, the email address: john.roberts@gmail.com
Not that it would be so hard to figure out my work or [...]

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Google announces GMail via this press release dated April 1. Webmail with 1GB of free storage, plus great search (as you would expect). So… is it real?
I’m asking because Simon Willison’s post ranges from excitement about the idea of the service, but then points out that Google has a sense of humor about these things [...]

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I’m reading the Apple KnowledgeBase note for the Mac OS X 10.3.3 update. I have not yet installed it, but I am thrilled to read this bullet item.
Addresses an issue in which Mail could unexpectedly quit when marking some types of unsolicited messages (or “spam”) as Junk.
I haven’t been hit by this problem for some [...]

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Mail.app, part 7
Haven’t crashed in a day or two, but just want to keep the link just in case I need new ideas.

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Mail.app… the saga continues
Again, from Macintouch, more ideas/tips about Mail.app problems. New idea: “… I traced the problem down to a malformed HTML-based message that had no subject line.” I’ve seen some of those, but had not connected the crashes to an individual type of email. Hmmm… I’ll keep an eye out.

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More on Mail.app at Macintouch
Mail hasn’t crashed for a day or so while I try re-training the Junk mail filter. Here’s more reports. Again, two kinds of problems, freezes and crashes. I’ve only had problems with the crashes. Lucky me?

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Another thread on Mail.app crashes
Not sure I found an answer in this post and comments on Andy Budd’s blog, but I’m not alone. [via Google search, first result... didn't dive any deeper, yet]

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