Well this has always been a little bit of a mystery to me. When you work with WordPress, it eventually does like to send mail to folks as an administrator. How do you make this work. If you are using Amazon AWS Lightsail, the default Bitnami image has something called WP Mail SMTP preloaded. You […]
Tag: Google
Tips for Aliases in GSuite
Ok, this is a confusing topic because there are two distinct things you could mean by this. The first is if you want rich@foo.com to actually go to rich.tong@foo.com. And the second is if you want hr@foo.com to actually go to a group of people in the company like rich@foo.com and tony@foo.com. The confusing thing […]
Argh. Google and MacOS authentication woes
Just spent an hour on a really frustrating problem with Google. What they did makes sense but the error messages are really hard to fathom TL:dr If you have MacOS Catalina and are trying to setup a gmail account on it. It doesn’t work the way you thjnk. Authentication now happens from Safari to get […]
Contacts to Google hub and then down again to Address Book and iPhone
Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry. You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and […]
Eureka! Google Calendar to iPhone and iCal hub
Well, I’m testing it now, but looks like we might finally be able to get off of Exchange. Here is how to use Google Calendar as the hub of all your scheduling: # Upload your calendar to Google Calendar. This is confusing because the Google Calendar user interface has been changing so radically but “Google […]
Reset iCal and Entourage
I’ve had terrible problems with both iCal and Entourage. With iCal, I first tried to use Google Calendar and then started deleting excessive calendars. Then, when I rebooted, I discovered that I couldn’t see any calendars and also that when I tried to add another calendar with New calendar, iCal just hung. First thing to […]
Google Calendar CalDAV let’s you replace Entourage with Mac Mail, iCal and AddressBook
Another piece of the puzzle. We are still using an Exchange backend but it sure would be great to have an alternative that hooks into an iPhone 3G and the Mac applications (Mail, iCal, Address Book) without dreaded sync. Right now we use a hosted Exchange and then Entourage on Mac for Calendars and Contacts […]