Okay, was looking for email corpi (corpuses? No, apparently corpora) to run some tests, and found these...

• Test emails for a Ruby lib called Mail
• A single eml example file at the FlexConfirmMail for Thunderbird github site
• EDRM doesn't seem to have Enron any more (see below), but it does have its EDRM Public Micro Dataset, which contains "4 email boxes with shared correspondence, threads and attachments" (and a lot more that's not email, but you have to grab the whole zip).
• Enron data, perhaps the most famous, large-ish email corpus.
  • Its state is... complicated.
  • EnronData.org sounds promising, but links are broken.
  • FoundationDB claims to have it but that's from Archive.org.
  • Carnegie Mellon hosts it but has removed anyone who requested they do so.

    • Prior versions of the dataset are no longer being distributed. If you are using the March 2, 2004 Version; the August 21, 2009 Version; or the April 2, 2011 Version of this dataset for your work, you are requested to replace it with the newer version of the dataset below, or make the the appropriate changes to your local copy.

    • It's still plenty for testing
  • The Library of Congress (!!) has a copy with everyone*, but no attachments.
    • Okay, they say they don't have everyone either, though I found a few at LoC that were not at Carnegie Mellon...

    • The dataset here does not include attachments, and some messages have been deleted "as part of a redaction effort due to requests from affected employees". Invalid email addresses were converted to something of the form user@enron.com whenever possible (i.e., recipient is specified in some parse-able format like "Doe, John" or "Mary K. Smith") and to no_address@enron.com when no recipient was specified."

  • Carnegie Mellon says that EDRM has it with attachments ("A version of the dataset with all attachments is available from EDRM."), but that URL is dead.

Check the licenses for each and enjoy.

Labels: email, fyi, testing

 Only Apple brings you amazingly architected solutions like this.

This is precisely that "happy path or no path" mentality that I've complained about before. If you were green fielding a new OS, there's no way you say, "I know where we'll put the setting for the default mail app! In OUR email app!"

I mean, it makes sense if Mail.app is the only mail handler on your box. I'm guessing I can't delete it even though I don't use it, because if I could I wouldn't be able to select another client to replace it! I also bet the percentage of people using 3rd party email apps for their company email inside of the infinite loops is really low.

This is precisely why I wouldn't hate seeing Apple get split into a hardware-and-bios company and a separate software company or, better yet, companies. I don't hold out any hope for that... I think independent competition with OSes only happens if Linux ever finally commoditizes the desktop OS. Which is could do; I use Ubuntu regularly now. Which is also why it probably never will -- it's good enough for its user base, but still obviously not competitive enough for the typical end user.

In any event, Apple does a great job defining one clean-room use case for its products and, I assume, efficiently implementing that mvp. But it's not very creative at the next step: Coming up with potential real-world fail conditions once the mvp is running.

Labels: apple, apple fail, email, happy-path-or-no-path, macOS

To keep our Edison Mail app free, and to protect your privacy by rejecting an advertising-based business model, our company Edison Software, measures e-commerce through a technology that automatically recognizes commercial emails and extracts anonymous purchase information from them. Our technology is designed to ignore personal and work email, which does not help us measure market trends.

And when looking at the big picture, Edison having phrases like “privacy by design” and “privacy first” on its website can feel misleading after learning about how they scrape and sell personal data.

Labels: business, email, macOS, privacy, you

Step 1: [Go to gmail.com] in Chrome and click the Protocol Handler icon  in your browser's address bar. 

Labels: chrome, email, noteToSelf

Now when you're searching for a frequent flyer number or shipping status (for example), Inbox will show it at the top of search results–no more digging through individual emails to find what you're looking for.

Underneath any quick answers, you'll see a "Top results" section that orders emails by relevance. Below that is all the email results, ordered by date, but chances are you won't have to look here often.

Labels: email, gmail, Google, indie

It's time to upgrade to an even better Skype experience on your Windows 8 device. Your current version of Skype is being replaced by an app called Skype for Windows desktop. It has more features to help you stay in touch like screen sharing and group video calling. Also, your chat conversations (from the last 30 days) and all your contacts will appear as normal after upgrading.

Labels: email, mbox, win10, win8, windows, xml

I'm in a spot where Thunderbird is probably the best way I can access Exchange, and I'm fairly happily using ExQuilla. My only complaint is the inability to send encrypted emails, but that's not a huge deal, since those aren't all that common.

But I'm also using the active Ericsson branch of Lightning as an extension to get my calendar, and things aren't nearly so consistent. Just this morning, the calendar tab told me it had 43 queued jobs. That's not great. (I'm not quite resisting the urge to say that I have 43 queued jobs, but... ain't one.) I also couldn't send mail while I was waiting, as "Write" was greyed out. I eventually quit. And yesterday, I had to hard-quit Thunderbird from the Task Manager when it wouldn't close all the way -- the windows were gone, but the process was still running. That's happened a handful of times after a Dismiss button issue (see below).

I ascribe most of this weirdness to Lightning, which might not be fair, but there was a check in just a few hours ago, and the fact that the Dismiss button doesn't work reliably really bugs me. I don't care if you haven't successfully updated the server yet. How about keep that reminder window closed for the running app. It should be easy to take the Dismiss request and keep your inability to update Exchange silent, or displayed in a less intrusive way. Is it really that difficult to keep a list of ids for events you should now ignore?

Btw, to the folks who clip their nails at work (I'm looking at you too, RMS) like the two dudes who do it in the current office, please heavens stop. I'm irrationally fearful of one of them dropping into my coffee. I mean, unless you're just passive-but-very-aggressively poking at someone, at least take it to the bathroom, right?

Labels: email, outlook, thunderbird

I decided to leave because I wasn’t working on the software that I’ve been obsessed with for more than a decade.

Labels: email, indie

In theory, yes, there are people who won’t buy your book if it’s not in the ideal format for their preferred reader. But that’s theoretical money you might make if everything is perfect. 

But if you don’t ship, NOBODY buys. NOBODY gets your fix. You get no money.

Compare those two options: fewer sales (hypothetically) vs. no sales at all (proven fact).

Labels: business, email, table stakes

"If your iPhone has been given to you by your employer, why are you bothered about losing any data?"

Because you find you're in the same jeopardy if you use your personal phone to access your employer's Exchange server. Fair enough in some sense, but the loaned car is at least potentially reversed here -- Your work data is going for a free ride on your device.

I understand there are edge cases ("But wait, you had access to work email, so you may have saved precious docs to your phone! They have every right to erase those!"), but the OP's shock makes sense. I'd expect some sort of middle ground where you could erase the Exchange account automatically, but not, say, my personal pictures, reminders, etc. Heck, just sandbox files in Exchange accounts (don't allow their being saved outside of the Apple ecosystem) for that middle ground. etc etc

Labels: email, exchange, iphone, security

According to the filing, Microsoft received a tip from a person who was contacted via Hotmail by the blogger, who wanted to verify that the leaked source code was legitimate. Instead, the tipper went to Steven Sinofsky, then-president of the Windows Division at Microsoft, and told him of the interaction. Sinofsky forwarded the details to Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Investigations department, which investigates external threats and internal information leaks.


"After confirmation that the data was Microsoft's proprietary trade secret on September 7, 2012, Microsoft's Office of Legal Compliance approved the content pulls of the blogger's Hotmail account," the filing says.

Labels: email, microsoft, privacy

Yes, there is a way to delete all your unwanted iPhone/iPad emails from the Mail app in one operation! No more left-swipe:tap Trash for every individual message. No more Edit: tap the single open circle next toevery individual message and finally tapping Trash. And you don’t need to jail break your device.

Labels: apple fail, email, iphone

Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers say that Americans enjoy "generally no privacy" in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications -- meaning that they can be perused without obtaining a search warrant signed by a judge.

Labels: email, privacy

Is there any way to "paste as quotation" in Outlook 2011 for Mac?

Labels: email, microsoft, outlook, outlook fail

Labels: email, hotmail, outlook

Microsoft’s launch of the Outlook.com email platform, designed to replace Hotmail over a period of time, will help the company fend off Google’s challenge for its business in the enterprise.

1. Anyone who has used Hotmail & Gmail knows Hotmail's interface doesn't just stink0rz, but stink0rz hard relative to Gmail (if nobody was better, you couldn't really complain as loudly).
2. Outlook.com will be able to sync to Exchange servers like Outlook the client.

Labels: email, gmail, hats of money, hotmail, microsoft, outlook fail

In summary, we've been focusing efforts towards important web and mobile projects, such as B2G, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop-only email client.

Labels: email, mozilla, thunderbird

using System;
namespace System.Net.Mail
{
        public enum MailPriority
        {
                Normal,
                Low,
                High
        }
}

Labels: c#, email, OpenPop

   1 public void actuallySendMail ()
   2 {
   3         // And the winner is from...
   4         // http://huseyincakir.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/mono-c-sending-mail-through-gmail/
   5         // (fancier lib for sending jive here: http://emailsender.codeplex.com/ 
   6         // and maybe here: http://higlabo.codeplex.com/)
   7         MailMessage mail = new MailMessage ();
   8         mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
   9         SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient ("smtp.gmail.com");
  10         mail.From = new MailAddress ("yourEmailige@gmail.com");
  11         mail.To.Add ("yourEmailige@gmail.com");
  12         mail.Subject = "TEST";
  13         mail.Body = "This is for <b>testing</b> SMTP mail from GMAIL: " 
  14                 + DateTime.Today.ToString ();
  15         SmtpServer.Port = 587;
  16         SmtpServer.Credentials = 
  17                 new System.Net.NetworkCredential ("yourEmailige", "yourPasswordige");
  18         SmtpServer.EnableSsl = true;
  19         ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = 
  20                 delegate(object s, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, 
  21                         SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors) {
  22                 return true; 
  23         };
  24         SmtpServer.Send (mail);
  25 }

Labels: c#, email, smtp

The Greylisting method is very simple. It only looks at three pieces of information (which we will refer to as a "triplet" from now on) about any particular mail delivery attempt:

1. The IP address of the host attempting the delivery
2. The envelope sender address
3. The envelope recipient address

From this, we now have a unique triplet for identifying a mail "relationship". With this data, we simply follow a basic rule, which is:

If we have never seen this triplet before, then refuse this delivery and any others that may come within a certain period of time with a temporary failure.

Labels: email, gmail fail, problem solved