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Profitable Internet Marketing – A proven method

07 Aug 2020 Comments off

In 1995 I made a life-changing decision to leave catering as a career and become an internet marketing specialist. Today, PIMdesign work with our long-established clients to see real results, return on investment and to help the businesses work smartly. Take one of our clients. This long-established firm repairs and services watches of all brands. [...]

A Proven Method – Part Two by PIMdesign

08 Aug 2020 Comments off

In my last post I said I would describe how, together with our client, we achieved a 4X ROI.Our client's workshop is run by experienced horologists. Their workbenches are clean and organised, they have to be.Watches come into their workshop every day and are carefully checked, recorded and assigned job numbers.The challenge for us involved overcoming the [...]

The Power of Social Media

04 Jun 2019 Comments off

Nowadays great examples of blogs and social media can be found all over the internet. Take a look at this site Fifty Four and Counting This website offers reviews about travel restaurants, hotels and attractions. By posting content and sharing those reviews across social media channels the site gains visitors. Those visitors are being influenced by the [...]

What’s the Maximum Email size that I can send and why?

11 Apr 2018 Comments off

Some of our Smartermail users wish to send and receive many or large attachments to their emails. The limit on the Smartermail server, unless otherwise arranged, is 10mb per email to send. Why is this? Each email sent and any attachments is first scanned for viruses. A large file will take time and also processing. In addition, the size of a file adds [...]

Simple Content Filtering in Smartermail

28 Mar 2018 Comments off

Did you know that via the Smartermail web interface you can mark individual emails in your inbox as Spam? What this does is to add that address to a knowledge base which is used by the server to identify spam in the future. Highlight the email in question and either right click and choose Actions or choose Actions from the menu above the email [...]

Typical Daily Management Tasks with Smartermail

07 Mar 2018 Comments off

Let's look at a typical day at PIMdesign. Firstly, we have more than 150 domains and more than 1000 users. Some use IMAP, some use POP, some only have one device, some have several. Some even use webmail exclusively. So, in any one day, we can get several questions: What's my password or so and so's? Well, soon, by law, I won't be able to tell [...]

Smartermail 17 is coming

13 Feb 2018 Comments off

Smartertools announcement of Smartermail 17 came as a bit of a surprise. Ater all, we receive almost weekly updates to SM16. Although Smarter 16 seems to have stabilised, we still haven't chosen to upgrade our main web server to it and we persevere with the trusty old Smartermail 15. Will the advent of v17 change all this? Well, I can't believe [...]

Smartermail customisation

22 Aug 2017 Comments off

Did you know you have options in Smartermail 15x to change the look of your web interface? You can customise it with your own logo and also change the colour scheme. The simplest change is the colour change via Settings/Personalization/Colors. You can also add some fancy styling using the CSS option here but it can cause issues. You can also create [...]

Smartermail restore feature

17 Jul 2017 Comments off

If you have a folder that is corrupted or maybe you manually deleted or moved a large number of emails outside the Smartermail interface, then the Restore feature of the Manage menu is very useful. Just select it, enter email address and then the folder that requires restoring using '/' to indicate a folder hierarchy: so /inbox/2016 or /sent items/ABC [...]

Smartermail – the battle against the spammers

10 Jul 2017 Comments off

Spam filters can never be 100% efficient. Smartermail has the ability for system administrators to see the recent traffic passing through the spool. It will quickly identify Its and mail servers which have sent or attempted to send higher levels of email through the server. Sometimes this reveals certain tell-tale patterns of spam. A good indicator is a [...]

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