On a Mac when you click a link that is a mailto link it will open the default email application, which is the MacOS Apple Mail app or just Mail.app. Many times you might have another email client such as Outlook or Spark, so you will need to change the default mail client to the…
I downloaded My Backup Pro to use as a secondary backup on my Google Nexus 7 device which is running Android 4.2. When attempting to configure the the email address and password associated to the My Backup Pro account it continued to reject the information I was providing. Initially I thought the password must be…
We have had a couple requests to write a post about readpst which is included in the default path of Backtrack 5 and also located in the Backtrack menu underneath Forensics/Forensics Analysis Tools. The readpst application will read PST files which are also known as Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders and convert them to mbox, MH,…
When clicking on hyperlinks that are set to open a compose email message on OSX the Mail.app application will launch. Since it is likely that your preferred email application is something other than Mail.app such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Microsoft Outlook for Mac, Postbox, Sparrow, or something else then you will want to change the…
Earlier today I was sent an email by a client asking me to click a vote button if I approved of the technical documentation they had composed. After reading the documentation I went to click what I assumed would be some form of approved button however I couldn’t find it. After looking over every inch…
One thing I noticed when I made the change from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010 was the fact that the little mail icon that used to display when I received an email was no longer displaying in the notification area of the Windows 7 taskbar. I assumed that it was simply a configuration that needed…
Earlier this week I was asked by someone at work if there was a way to have Redmine email them when a file was uploaded to the Files section of a specific Redmine project. At first I wasn’t sure if it was possible but after digging around the Redmine interface I was able to find…
One thing that can be really helpful for Linux administrators is sending mail attachments via the Linux command line. It is fairly widely known that you can inject text files into email by piping the outputs of those files to the mail command however something that is less known is attaching files to an email…
While working on a project unrelated to Postfix on a CentOS server I noticed an error in the mail logs that indicated an issue with the root users mailbox. I have yet to locate the root cause of the problem however I was able to resolve the problem easily. Below I explain the error in…