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Email Acronyms: SMTP, IMAP and POP

Email

As an email specialist we often talk in acronyms and these are the three main ones we use on a daily basis: SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a standard set of rules that allows electronic devices to transfer electronic mail (email) from one device to another. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages.

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What is a mail client?

Email / General

Do you need one? An email client is a piece of software that is downloaded and installed on your computer. The software links to a server where it collects and delivers your stored email from and too. An email client can also be a web application where everything is stored online by the web app provider. While consumers have tended toward the ease of use that web app emails allow, many businesses…

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Email signature best practices

Email / Email branding

Your email signature - a powerful, low-cost and high-return marketing tool. Consider that an employee on an average sends out 40 emails every day to either to a company’s customers, prospects, partners or investors. If there are 20 employees who are active on their email for 250 business days, it amounts to 200,000 annual sends. Now consider the brand visibility you could ensure through a good…

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Setting up email branding in Outlook on a Mac with Databias

Configuration / Email / Email branding

Congratulations, you have signed up for Databias’ email branding and are in the process of getting your email looking slick across all your devices. Databias’ email branding system works seamlessly across all mail clients and most of the time we simply route your outbound mail through our servers by liaising with your IT guy. However, if you don’t have an IT guy, this article may help with…

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