Charlotte’s email was quite a mess, with thousands of unread messages. To solve this, she first had to get to Inbox Zero.
Zoom, Also Email Horrors – TMO Daily Observations 2021-10-06
Charlotte Henry joins host Kelly Guimont to discuss a quick Zoom tip, and a (seasonal) story about the horrors of an overstuffed inbox.
Email Filters and Sub-Addresses – TMO Daily Observations 2021-09-28
Jeff Butts and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to discuss email filtering tactics and how to control who has access to your inbox.
Cloudflare Moves to Fight Email Phishing and Improve Email Routing
On Monday Cloudflare announced a pair of features designed to improve email phishing and spoofing, and a Wizard that improves email routing.
DuckDuckGo Launches Free Email Protection Service
Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has launched an Email Protection Service to protect against email trackers. You can get a free, personalized @duck.com address that will forward emails to your regular inbox.
We remove hidden trackers from incoming emails sent to this address, then forward them to your regular inbox for safer reading. This means if you use an email service like Gmail or Yahoo, it’s no problem! Emails sent to your Personal Duck Address will arrive there as usual so you can read your email like normal, in any app or on the web, worry-free.
Spring Cleaning Email – TMO Daily Observations 2021-03-22
Charlotte Henry joins host Kelly Guimont to discuss how to clear out your email inbox and get it down to a reasonable size using apps and more.
Kill Two Birds with the Free Twobird App
Dr. Mac was impressed with Twobird, a free (but full-featured) email client that also manages reminders, calendar events, and notes, all in a single uncluttered window.
Thursdays with Bob, Backups, and Email Apps – TMO Daily Observations 2021-03-11
Bob “Dr Mac” LeVitus joins host Kelly Guimont to discuss backing up off-site, easy ways to back up on-site, and an email app with potential.
M1 Support Coming to Open Source Email Client ‘Thunderbird’
In the latest beta version of Thunderbird the company added a welcome surprise in the notes: Future support for Apple’s M1 Macs. These notes apply to Thunderbird version 87 beta 1 released February 26, 2021. What’s New: Native support for macOS devices built with Apple Silicon CPUs; New user interface for adding attachments; Clicking on an already-selected pill in the recipient list will now allow editing the address; Copying a large message to an IMAP server would sometimes prematurely display a time-out error; OpenPGP: Messages with a high compression ratio (over 10x) could not be decrypted; and other fixes and improvements.
Email Spy Pixels are a Widespread Problem, Says BBC
At the BBC’s request, email service “Hey” analyzed its traffic and found two-thirds of emails sent to users contained a spy pixel.
Defenders of the trackers say they are a commonplace marketing tactic. This information can then be used to determine the impact of a specific email campaign, as well as to feed into more detailed customer profiles. Hey’s co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says they amount to a “grotesque invasion of privacy”. And other experts have also questioned whether companies are being as transparent as required under law about their use.
These pixels are tiny 1×1 images embedded in photos that can track a variety of data points. You could turn off “Load Remote Images” automatically in Settings > Mail, but then of course they would load along with other photos when you want to see them.