A recommended tool:
Category: Email
Migrate IMAP accounts
article #771, updated 2728 days ago

Really good Android email client
article #752, updated 2777 days ago

A for-pay Exchange connection plugin for Thunderbird
article #723, updated 2867 days ago
Something new, $10/year. Working great for me as of this writing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-exchange-web-services/

Configuring Exchange Autodiscover
article #254, updated 3331 days ago
A Microsoft reference is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940881
with further notes here:
http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/02/setting-up-an-external-autodiscover-record-for-sbs-2008/
This has to be set at the Internet level only. We’ll use “domain.com” as the domain name, just replace it with yours.
- If there are any A or CNAME records pointing to “autodiscover.domain.com”, delete them. If the cert for your server uses “autodiscover.domain.com”, change it to something else, e.g., “remote.domain.com”.
- If there are any A or CNAME records pointing to “*.domain.com”, an asterisk for global, you’ll have to remove them too. You will need to replace with multiple specific records, or a subdomain, if you’re using a global configuration.
- In your Internet DNS, create a new SRV record:
At Network Solutions, the “Service” pulldown needs to have “_autodiscover”, the “Protocol” pulldown needs to have “_tcp”, “Priority” and “Weight” need to be zero, the “Port” needs to be 443, and the “Target” needs to be the A record name used in the MX record, e.g., “mail.domain.com”.
At GoDaddy, “Service” needs to contain “_autodiscover”, “Protocol” needs to contain “_tcp”, “Name” needs to contain “@”, “Priority” needs to be 0 (zero), “Weight” needs to be 0 (zero), “Port” needs to be 443, and “Target” needs to be the A record name used in the MX record, e.g., “mail.domain.com”.
You can test the setup with nslookup:
nslookup -querytype=SRV _autodiscover._tcp.domain.com
The result should be approximately thus:
Server: dns.domain.local Address: 99.88.77.66 Non-authoritative answer: _autodiscover._tcp.domain.com SRV service location: priority = 0 weight = 0 port = 443 svr hostname = mail.domain.com

Internet email whitelist
article #537, updated 3344 days ago
Something new, an Internet email whitelist:

Configure iPhone for Exchange Email
article #500, updated 3450 days ago
Here is a great set of instructions with screenshots:
http://support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=47777

Changes to all AT&T/Yahoo/SBCglobal email
article #455, updated 3624 days ago
Learned this today (7/31/2012). AT&T has changed the names of the POP and SMTP servers for all email accounts for att.net,
sbcglobal.net, and several others (a list is below). Some users will immediately find that Outlook or other email software will not send or receive email, until it is reconfigured to match; it is not unlikely that the changes will not affect everyone at once, but will eventually become essential.
Previously, each of the domains below had different server names for sending and receiving; now, they are all the same, inbound.att.net for reception (POP) and outbound.att.net for transmission (SMTP). POP has to be done on port 995, SSL turned on; SMTP has to be done on port 465, also with SSL turned on.
ameritech.net
att.net
bellsouth.net
flash.net
nvbell.net
pacbell.net
prodigy.net
sbcglobal.net
snet.net
swbell.net
wans.net

Exchange 2007 and 2010 email message size limits
article #344, updated 3632 days ago
A very good reference for 2007:
And another for both:
http://exchangepedia.com/2007/09/exchange-server-2007-setting-message-size-limits.html

Send email via Gmail SMTP by VBscript (incl. SMTP auth!)
article #341, updated 3960 days ago
Here is a VBscript which, if edited for your Gmail account and environment, will work well on anything XP, Server 2003, or above. It does not require any additional installations, CDO is an object built in to Windows:
EmailSubject = "Sending Email by CDO" EmailBody = "This is the body of a message sent via" & vbCRLF & _ "a CDO.Message object using SMTP authentication." Const EmailFrom = "self@gmail.com" Const EmailFromName = "My Very Own Name" Const EmailTo = "someone@destination.com" Const SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com" Const SMTPLogon = "self@gmail.com" Const SMTPPassword = "gMaIlPaSsWoRd" Const SMTPSSL = True Const SMTPPort = 465 Const cdoSendUsingPickup = 1 'Send message using local SMTP service pickup directory. Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 'Send the message using SMTP over TCP/IP networking. Const cdoAnonymous = 0 ' No authentication Const cdoBasic = 1 ' BASIC clear text authentication Const cdoNTLM = 2 ' NTLM, Microsoft proprietary authentication ' First, create the message Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objMessage.Subject = EmailSubject objMessage.From = """" & EmailFromName & """ <" & EmailFrom & ">" objMessage.To = EmailTo objMessage.TextBody = EmailBody ' Second, configure the server objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = SMTPServer objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = SMTPLogon objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = SMTPPassword objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = SMTPPort objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = SMTPSSL objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60 objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update ' Now send the message! objMessage.Send

Command-line SMTP mailer with SSL for Windows
article #160, updated 3973 days ago
For many years there was ‘blat’, the all-purpose command-line mailer for Windows. However, blat was never updated for SSL, and a great many email providers (e.g.,. Gmail) require SSL. One can add a second tool called ‘stunnel’ to create a chain for the purpose, but I don’t like to kludge that much.
For a while I preferred the applet ‘email’, which is part of Cygwin. However, this is not a standalone applet, and there have been other issues. Just now SwithMail came to light for me:
http://www.tbare.com/software/swithmail.html
Am testing. So far, it is working very well indeed.