Tag: gmail
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Using GAM to delete erroneously sent emails
Sometimes someone sends an email and wants to unsend it. It doesn’t happen very often, and usually there isn’t much you can do about if the email has been sent to an external recipient. If your organization uses G-Suite, though, you can delete internally sent emails. Just be careful. And also know that it’s still…
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Chrome Gmail unread messages not appearing in bold
We had a user whose unread emails were appearing as bold in Safari (with an ugly font) and not bold at all in Chrome (font looked okay), and we did some digging and found the solution was to enable the Arial Bold font in Font Book on the user’s Mac, and it was all good.…
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Configuring Sendmail for Gmail on a WAMP server
If you have a WAMP server and want to send email via PHP’s mail() function, a quick way to do so is with fake sendmail for Windows. Create a directory on your WAMP server for C:\usr\lib and put both the sendmail.exe and sendmail.ini files in there. Edit the sendmail.ini file as below (filling in your…
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Setting up SSMTP on Ubuntu with Gmail
The procedure for setting up SSMTP on Ubuntu is fairly well documented on the Ubuntu wiki, but the only amendment I’d make would be to change the hostname to localhost. On Ubuntu wiki but fails to send emails: hostname=MyEmailAddress@gmail.com Amendment that works: hostname=localhost
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iPad Gmail Mail “password missing” error
This randomly happened after we set up a slew of iPads with the same email account (Gmail on Mail), and sending messages put the outgoing message into the Outbox with an error that the password is missing, with the options to Cancel or go to Settings. Going to Settings, though, offers no option to input…