If recipients are receiving your emails with missing images, broken signatures, or a strange attachment called winmail.dat, the cause is almost certainly that Outlook is sending your messages in Rich Text Format (RTF) rather than HTML.
Continue reading “Configuring Outlook to send HTML instead of Rich Text Format”Apple Mail (on both macOS and iOS) is designed to follow a principle called “send what you compose.” The email client determines the format of an outgoing message based on the content it detects in the compose window, not on a blanket setting.
Continue reading “Why Mac Mail sends plain text – and how to force HTML with a signature trick”Enabling Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) sync for a Databias customer is a reasonably straight-forward task. There are a few per-requisites that you need before you get started:
Email security is core to our business at Databias and we have implemented all the protection protocols necessary to protect your email from threats like spam, phishing and email spoofing. There are three key layers that we use to protect your email from a data breach.
Continue reading “Email security using SPF, DKIM and DMARC”When using Google Workspace or Office 365 excluding senders from branding with Databias is quite simple. Either login to the Google Workspace Admin or Exchange admin site and modify either the rule (which points to a connector) for Office 365 or the Google Workspace Gmail Admin as per the below screenshots.
Continue reading “How to exclude users from branding with Databias when using Google Workspace or Office 365”To setup routing on Microsoft 365 for email branding, you need to setup a connector and a rule in the Exchange Admin Centre and then apply it. This document takes you through the steps to do this on the management platform, first adding the connector and then the rule.
Continue reading “Routing rules on Microsoft 365 for email branding”To set up routing for email branding on Google Workspace, you need to change the routing in the admin panel. Log in to Google Workspace and click on the Admin icon. From the hamburger menu, choose Apps and then Gmail.
Continue reading “Routing rules for Google Workspace for email branding”Microsoft 365 email is very secure and Microsoft works tirelessly to stop hackers. At Databais we also work hard to prevent hackers from bothering you through using SPF, DKIM and DMARC. The sad truth however is that criminals are working just as hard at finding ways around all the security we have in place. It is therefore also your responsibility to be vigilant when it comes to email security because the only way the hackers can really get access is if you give them the power by filling in your details when they ask you to via a phishing email.
Continue reading “Phishing Attacks”Coding for email is a fine art as there are so many variables that one needs to take into consideration, none the least of which are the different mail clients and what they do or do not support. Each is unique. As the third most used mail client in the world, Outlook has idiosyncracies that are of course different to those of Gmail and the 2016 release has its own set of requirements. Here are some things to be aware of
Continue reading “Coding for Outlook”How to create almost unbreakable HTML email signatures. The first thing to remember is to keep it simple. Some mail clients remove images from signatures no matter what you do so, plan for this. The fewer images the better. All set dimensions must be exact. No percentages. Your coding must be as tight as possible and your design as simple as possible.
Continue reading “Rules for creating email signatures”