AT&T DSL & MAIL WOES

AT&T has a special place in my heart. One of my clients is a small business with its own domain name and several users receiving POP3 mail addressed to that domain name – gertrude@businessname.com, for example. The business has an AT&T DSL line. A couple...

EMAIL NO LONGER RELIABLE BUSINESS TOOL

An interesting problem has developed, and there’s no good answer in sight. Email is no longer a reliable business tool. We’re going to keep using it but there will be more occasions when I have no good answer to mail-related complaints. Spam is the primary...

NDR SPAM

I’ve gotten several calls recently about an odd type of spam attack that also happened to me a few days ago. As other clients had reported, I began getting “non-delivery reports” – messages from mail servers all over the world that messages...

IPHONE & EXCHANGE

Apple announced today that it has licensed ActiveSync technology from Microsoft, allowing the iPhone to sync mail, contacts, and calendars with Exchange Server.  Apple also released a development kit which will result in an explosion of third party applications...

BLACKBERRY – THE ENVY & THE REALITY

Blackberry is making some very appealing phone/mail devices. They don’t work the way you think they do. Some of you won’t have any fun with them at all.Businesspeople have made Blackberries into corporate icons, as omnipresent as iPods on 24-year-olds....