The iPhone is one of the best options for corporate users that need mobile email. However, people that perform several roles within one company usually need to send email using one of several “alias” addresses, such as sales@company.com and fred@company.com, depending on the role they are working at that time. Unfortunately the iPhone makes sending […]

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If you’re trying to get Entourage 2008 for the Mac to work with a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server there’s a few things you need to know. First, according to Microsoft, you need to install Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and Rollup 4. This seems to be correct. Second, you need to go to your favorite […]

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Connecting a Mac running OS X Snow Leopard to a server running Microsoft Exchange  2007 is not quite as simple as it should be. We use Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, which comes with Exchange 2007. In our experience, the IMAP and SMTP protocols worked fine with any mail client we could find. But making […]

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Following on from part 2 of this guide: Install the maildirmake utility, which is part of the maildrop package. apt-get install maildrop Create a group for the virtual mail server, then create a user and add the user to the group: groupadd vmail useradd -g vmail vmail Take a look in your /etc/group file and […]

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SYNCING.NET enables data from multiple Windows PCs to be kept in perfect sync. As well as handling normal data files, it’s also an excellent option for sharing Outlook calendars and folders. It works over LAN and internet, and automatically connects with your other PCs without needing an IT expert to configure firewalls or VPN links. […]

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Remote control specialist LogMeIn has added iPhone support to its LogMeIn Rescue web based IT help desk suite. The update enables support technicians to send email or SMS messages containing a link that users can click to automatically connect to the LogMeIn Rescue console. Once connected, technicians can chat and send email account settings to […]

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An increasing number of spammers are using fake Facebook email addresses to bypass spam filters and clog up recipients’ mailboxes. The spammers’ trick works because many mail systems don’t verify the sender’s email address. The Hypervisor estimates that in recent weeks around half the spam hitting our mailboxes claimed to be from Facebook. Of course, […]

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Launched in August, Apple’s Snow Leopard server operating system includes a new beefed up mail server that supports Push email to the iPhone. Following the update, Snow Leopard will contact users whenever it receives new mail. Without Push, each user’s mail software must poll the server every few minutes to see if new mail has […]

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gSyncit is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that synchronizes Contacts and Calendars between Google’s free Gmail service and those in Outlook. In The Hypervisor tests we found gSyncit could handle multiple Outlook calendar and contact folders and offered a wide range of flexible configuration options. For example, calendars and contacts are configured separately, and for […]

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Synchronizing the calendar and contacts information between your iPhone and a Google Gmail account is free and easy to setup. As an added bonus, the synchronisation happens virtually in real time and “over the air” using the iPhone’s WiFi or cellular data connection to the Internet. This means if you change something on the iPhone […]

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