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Christian Drechsler marked one of Sherman's replies in Postbox, Inc. as useful. Sherman replied to the question "License: Using Postbox at workplace allowed?".

Christian Drechsler replied on July 15, 2009 13:34 to the question "Failed to connect to server" in Postbox, Inc.:

Nice to hear it works now. :-)

Still, if I were you I'd not just dsiable the firewall completely but just try to open the required ports for Postbox. Especially if you're using Windows it's not really a good idea to surf the web if you're not behind a firewall.

Christian Drechsler replied on July 15, 2009 06:52 to the question "License: Using Postbox at workplace allowed?" in Postbox, Inc.:

Sherman, in the terms of service that I have to agree to in the EULA, it is stated under "Rules of Conduct" that I shall not "a) take any action [...] that [...] involves commercial activities and/or sales without Company's prior written consent".

As these terms of use are stated to be legally binding "FOR USE OF THE WEBSITES [...] AND ANY OTHER FEATURES, CONTENT, OR APPLICATIONS [!]", I was not sure if they applied to the use of Postbox, too.

(To be honest, I only skimmed through the TOS and thought they were the TOS for using Postbox, not for using your websites, but now I see that if I had read them in depth, I wouldn't have been absolutely sure, too. ;-) )

Christian Drechsler marked one of Scott's replies in Postbox, Inc. as useful. Scott replied to the question "License: Using Postbox at workplace allowed?".

Christian Drechsler replied on July 13, 2009 14:20 to the question "Failed to connect to server" in Postbox, Inc.:

What did you update? Postbox or your operating system?

Sounds to me like this was a security update to your operating system, and somehow you ended up with the SMTP/IMAP/POP ports blocked by some new/updated firewall software on your system. Webmail doesn't say anything about that because it uses the HTTP(S) ports.

Are you able to access your account with any other mail program?

Christian Drechsler replied on July 13, 2009 14:01 to the question "Gmail IMAP mail: where's the new mail?" in Postbox, Inc.:

One hint (I stumbled over that myself some time ago): If you send a test email from yourself to yourself (from any of the email addresses you have configured in GMail), GMail WILL NOT put that mail into the inbox, but only into the GMail sent folder (or marked with the GMail Sent label, to be precise). So if we're talking about test mails, this might be the reason. If mails are shown correctly in the GMail web interface inbox, but not in Postbox, I don't know what's wrong.

Christian Drechsler replied on July 13, 2009 13:03 to the idea "Gmail spam shouldn't bold/highlight the account" in Postbox, Inc.:

Set up a filter in GMail. In the words field, type "in:spam". When you go to the next step, GMail will warn you that you shouldn't use the "in:" tag in filters because incoming mail will never match that filter. They're lying (at least in case of spam), just go on.

Then, as action, have those mails marked as read (only available in recent browsers, not IE6, for example) or even deleted.

(Found at http://gangles.ca/2007/11/16/gmail-ma... )

Christian Drechsler replied on July 13, 2009 11:43 to the question "New message notifications with Google Mail and IMAP" in Postbox, Inc.:

In the GMail settings under "Labs", you can activate a function called "Extra IMAP settings" (or similar, translated from German "Erweiterte IMAP-Einstellungen"). In the "Labels" settings, you can then choose which GMail labels to show to an IMAP client. If you unselect the all mails label, this folder wil be gone from all IMAP clients.

Christian Drechsler asked a question in Postbox, Inc. on July 13, 2009 10:34:

License: Using Postbox at workplace allowed?

I'm not sure if the TOS grant me the right to use Postbox to read and answer email at my job. It's stated there that commercial use prohibited, but the examples all point to making money directly using email. The kind of work I'd do with the program would be exchanging information with colleagues and giving support for our software to customers, sometimes also to forward inquiries from customers to our sales department. I'm not in any other way connected to the sales department and won't send out any advertisement.

Please note that this is not an official request from my company, I'm only asking on my personal behalf, and nobody else here is currently thinking about using Postbox.

Best regards,

Christian