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How to import your Cyrus contacts to your Gmail Wesleyan account If you had contacts in your old Wesleyan email you may want to import them into your new Gmail account. Click here for a video tutorial on how to move your contacts 1. Open a browser and type ‘http://webmail-dev.wesleyan.edu‘ 2. Log in with your […]

How to move your foldered emails from your old Wesleyan Email Account into your new Wesleyan Gmail Account Gmail does not use the traditional idea of folders.  It uses labels.  If you used folders in your old Wesleyan email account it is possible to move those foldered emails to Gmail and have Gmail automatically create […]

If you maintain a website, you may have wondered at times why you are unable to find them through searches or that they are way below in the result set. The reasons for this are very complex. Different search engines employ different algorithms for finding the websites that best match the search term. Many of […]

Spam has become a fact of life for us all. Children now ponder why a meat product would be named after junk e-mail. Addressing the issue of spam, also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), is a complex task. Ideally, we would block all spam without ever interfering with legitimate e-mail, all with minimal effort. […]

Thin clients are computers that rely on servers on the network to run all applications and store your data while providing you essentially the same user experience as the desktop or laptop that you currently use. They are analogous to the terminals that one used to run applications on a mainframe computer prior to the […]

Most of us by now have received at least one email message where the original attachment is missing and the subject line preceded with {Filename} tag. It is usually accompanied by an attachment called Wesleyan-Attachment-Warning.txt that shows the name of the file that was removed. Some of the most common attachments that are removed .EXE […]

You are probably using Safari (3.*) to edit your pages. The visual editor in WordPress does not play well with Safari, particularly 3.0-3.1 (and maybe beyond). It ought to, but it doesn’t. You can best avoid the problem by using a different browser (Fi…

Wesleyan Events Calendar is the central repository for events that are held at Wesleyan. As you know, the campus is alive with many exciting events every day. We describe here how you can choose to receive a custom email listing of the events in the calendar. These events are submitted to the system by clicking […]

Phishing refers to the technique used by criminal elements to “fish” for personal information by pretending to send official E-mails. Wikipedia describes it as “In computing, phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.” […]