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On converting Exchange-style addresses to SMTP format

When email is sent between 2 people with accounts on an Exchange email server, the email addresses that are used are not the typical and familiar SMTP-style email addresses. An Exchange user’s SMTP email address may be joe.bob@somecompany.com, but Exchange uses an address that is based on X.400 (or X.500)

weirdkidMarch 8, 2012 Tips Read more

Articles on The Coming “Digital Dark Age”

Dealing with the prospect of a “digital dark age” is one of the reasons why we built Emailchemy, but I’ve found that many have trouble with this new term because they may not be familiar with the definition of the original. The term “Dark Ages” refers to a time period

weirdkidFebruary 8, 2009 News Read more

The Myth of the Received Date – Part 2

In Part 1, I explained how the “Date:” header of an email is actually the “sent date” and introduced a couple of issues with how the sent date is created by different email clients. Now in Part 2, I’ll give a similar rundown of the problems with the received date,

weirdkidJanuary 5, 2009 Tips Read more

The Myth of the Received Date – Part 1

There is no such thing as a “received date”. Not in the standards, anyway. Is this a quibbling technicality? An omission? Nope. And I’ll tell you why. Why? Because the date of a message matters. It matters more than it probably should, with the advent of email forensics, being that

weirdkidNovember 24, 2008 Tips Read more

Mac OS X Mail’s .mbox folders are not standard mbox files

I think the title says it all, but the problem is bigger than that. The whole idea that the last 3 or 4 letters of a filename are an indication of underlying file format and structure is flawed. More than flawed, it’s wrong, but 3 decades of MS-DOS (yes, it’s

weirdkidOctober 14, 2008 Tips Read more

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