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Questions tagged [email-client]

Any program used to view email, excluding web clients.

Any program used to view email, excluding web clients.

Notable examples of email clients include:

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • MS Outlook
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?

I sent a sensitive email with an attachment to the wrong email address. Is there a way to invalidate (or pull back) this email and the attachment remotely? The email was sent out via the aol.com email agent. I know there is a way to invalidate an…
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Reorder email accounts in Thunderbird

If you have more email accounts in Thunderbird, the accounts are shown in the order of creation. Now I added a new account and it is shown at the bottom of the list. How do I change the order of my accounts, so I can set the new account at the top…
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How can I graph the # of emails I receive per day

Ideally I'd like to do this in Outlook. I'd like to find a way to look at the # of emails I get in my inbox for each day. This does not have to be real time.
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Is there a simple way to synchronize Thunderbird across machines?

I love Firefox Sync. Is there a similar way to synchronise Thunderbird? I want to synchronise account settings, filters and address books. I never download e-mails, so this isn't an issue. There is no need to synchronise addons (I don't use…
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Modern vertical layout for Thunderbird?

It's weird that I haven't been able to find relevant information anywhere. Basically what I want is a modern vertical layout for the inbox of Thunderbird. That is to say, the message sender and subject should not be crammed into one line, but…
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how to use vim to manage and send emails

I would like to use vim/gvim as tool for mail managent and I found these 2 interesting pages. claws vmail I understood that these suffer from the following limitations with vmail you can see and manager all past mails, but it works only with GMAIL…
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Is it possible to perform a HTTP POST from a HTML email?

If I receive an email in any email client be it Outlook, GMail, etc and the email contains a link to a website, is it possible to perform a POST request to the website as opposed to a GET request?
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What is this red X icon showing in Thunderbird?

I just noticed this icon I have never seen before in Thunderbird and I am wondering what it is: Hovering over it doesn't tell me anything. Can anyone provide any insight?
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Workaround for adding forward addresses to Gmail as aliases

I went to add an alias to a forwarded address (managed by GoDaddy, ie myemail@mydomain.com) in Gmail, and I noticed that Google changed their system. In the past, after you entered the name and email address, you'd get a screen like this: However,…
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Unix mail command: Sort by newest first

When I use the "mail" command, it prints a list of messages in my inbox in a format like this: 1 Super User Mon Jun 9 17:13 86/4716 Complete Registration With Stack Exchange However I've noticed that it does this with the oldest messages…
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Are the Comments and Keywords header fields in IMF (RFC 5322) actually used?

Internet Message Format (IMF) is specified by RFC 5322. It defines a variety of header fields, such as To, From, and Subject. It also defines the Comments header field and the Keywords header…
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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?

when installing msmtp under Debian/Ubuntu, which package should I choose, msmtp or msmtp-mta? what's the differences between them? All the help articles I read install msmtp only, but isn't msmtp-mta, the regular MTA, a better option? Also, All…
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Can I make a shortcut to Send Outlook Email from Template?

Using the information provided here, I was able to successfully create an email template and send a message using this template. However, using this template is quite cumbersome - one must go to New Items->More Items->Choose Form...->Change "Look…
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Maximum capacity of a Thunderbird account?

I know someone who has lots of emails in a Thunderbird account. One day Thunderbird stopped receiving emails and asks the user to either delete or compress old emails to make more space. Unfortunately, due to the large number of incoming emails…
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Gnus: get rid of ~/Mail and ~/News folders

Gnus (Emacs's mail client) creates directories ~/Mail/ and ~/News. I don't want to clutter my home folder, how can i change this directories to, say, ~/.emacs.d/mail/ and ~/.emacs.d/news/?
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