Sometimes Mail (mail.app) just seems to forget the passwords it needs. One day your mail is collected OK by the Mac’s Mail application, and then suddenly it starts asking for your password to send or receive. Of course, Mail might not be at fault; perhaps there could be a network error instead, and if so more »
Archive for May, 2011:
Administrator rights in XP command prompt
I needed to run the command line in Windows XP as the administrator, something that I couldn’t just do by right clicking the Command Prompt in Accessories and selecting Run As Administrator, as you can in Vista or Windows 7. (I wanted to run the sfc.exe, and to do this it needed full administrator access). more »
Open winmail.dat on a Mac
Sometimes emails from Windows users contain an attachment called winmail.dat or win.dat which mail applications on the mac do not automatically decode. If you reply asking the sender what the attachment is, they will most often say that they had not actually attached anything. This is because their Microsoft email application mostly uses the dat more »
