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Using Gmail as your SMTP server When Using your ISP’s Email

NOTE: You’re going to be using Google’s service to send the email but for all intents and purposes it’s completely transparent to both you and your recipient. It’s also a world lot better than using some random SMTP server (having to find out the local one and always change it) or finding all your email […]

Hooking Up with Shaw’s New “Remote SMTP” Service

Update (February 2012 - Webmail 2.0 is completely up with all it’s Exchange goodness - so check out Shaw’s new instructions ) Please join me in welcoming Shaw’s new feature of actually allowing Shaw email users to send email while travelling without resorting to webmail or trying to find the local ISP’s SMTP server address […]

Disabling Mail.app’s To Do Mailboxes and Quasi-Debugging Mailbox Creation

Leopard’s Mail.app introduced some nice speed improvements over Tiger’s version but introduced one of the most annoying features (IMNSHO) in Leopard. System Wide “To Dos” in a garish Marker Felt font intent on polluting my IMAP mailboxes with Apple Mail To Do or ToDos.mbox seemingly placed randomly (they aren’t but when your Prefixes differ from […]

iPhone Cryptic Error : Invalid Recipient

While I really enjoy my iPhone’s ease of use it does spit some really cryptic errors sometimes. Namely one I’ve kept running into after changing over my domains to the new Shared Accelerators from Joyent which changed my SMTP information. For some reason my new SMTP information just wouldn’t sync to my iPhone correctly - […]

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chealion.ca is the haunting grounds of Micheal Jones, IT Manager at a media company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. If you'd like to know more I'd recommend visiting the complete About page.

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