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improve your Google Skills
there are tremendous learning materials – look here for quick starts, tutorials, guides, cheat sheets on everything Google.
If you don’t find what you need FrameWork or I would be happy to work with you.
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mimecast
How does mimecast decide to block something? It seems a bit random.
The behavior seems random to humans: an email from Rodent High reaches your inbox on Monday but on Tuesday mimecast blocks another one.
Do not assume mimecast is blocking an email based on the sender alone. The information used to decide to block an email goes far beyond what is in the header. If you want to know why an email is blocked, send a quick email to FW. They will research it for you.
Size Limit is 25MB
Gmail will not accept attachments that are executable files (.exe, .cmd, .bat, etc.).
Surely mimecast knows if an email is dodgy or not; or does it just guess and ask me to decide?
You’re not thinking like a computer. Mimecast does not KNOW what is dodgy. It’s using an inhuman amount of data+speed to give each email a dodginess score.
- high dodginess – simply blocks it
- medium dodginess – asks you
- everything else – passes into your inbox
FW provides us with our mimecast. It’s their job to monitor and adjust how it’s working. If it’s doing something that does not make sense to you, contact FW. Don’t allow mimecast to make you feel powerless.
FW: 312-564-4888 or helpdesk@frameworkit.com
Are emails automatically blocked by mimecast or only after we designate them?
mimecast automatically blocks emails for many reasons, such as senders from domains with bad reputations and senders who misrepresent their identity. The emails you reject are a small subset of those that are blocked.
What really happens when I'm choosing "block," "release" or "permit" regarding an incoming message?
Once a day mimecast sends a digest email with a list of the questionable email you’ve received. You are asked to rule on each of these emails.
- Permit – release to my inbox and put sender on my personal permitted (“trusted”) list
- Release – release to my inbox
- Block – add sender to my personal blocked list
This guide explains the details of mimecast digest email.
Are we notified of every incoming email that does not make it to our inbox ?
No, a lot of clearly malicious email is blocked by mimecast. Mimecast does not notify you about these.
I don't see an email that I'm expecting. What can I do?
Provide FW with the email addresses of the sender and the receiver, and the date it was sent. They can do some investigation. If mimecast blocked it; it can be found.
Sometimes when mimecast informs me of a held message it says "Contact your administrator for further information." What am I supposed to do?
If you don’t want the email, ignore it. If you want it contact FW and ask them to release it.
312-564-4888 or helpdesk@frameworkit.com
What should I do with an email in my inbox that mimecast should have blocked?
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Calendars
DCM shared calendars
invite someone to share or administer your calendar
Docs & Drives
share files from your Google drive
available space on your Google drive
This page is a tribute to Paul Daviz
More About Gmail
size limit on attachments
Size Limit is 25MB
Gmail will not accept attachments that are executable files (.exe, .cmd, .bat, etc.).
Spell check in Gmail
There is no automatic spell check in Gmail. The browser (Chrome, FireFox) may have auto-spell check which will kick in when you are composing Gmail.
Using spell-check in Gmail (non-automatic)
while composing a Gmail message, look for “more options”, near trash can. Click “Check spelling”
check your Gmail storage space
Each DCM Google account has 30 GB of combined Gmail, Drive, and Photos storage. Here’s what you have.
clean your autocomplete
Your individual contacts hold old DCM entries even when they no longer exist. Clean out old “dupagechildrens” entries in your DCM contacts list to clean your autocomplete offerings.
To Clean Contacts
- Go to “Contacts” (it is in the list of Google Apps such as Gmail & Calendar)
- On the left there is “Contacts” and “Directory”
- Select “Contacts”
- Search on “dupagechildrens”
- select all that come up and delete(you still have active ones in your directory; as you use those they will appear in your contacts)
advanced searching in Gmail
email links do not open email
Your browser (Chrome, FireFox, etc.) controls how email links behave.
Here is a great explanation of how to set your browser to use Gmail to open email links.
request read receipt
please send corrections, problems and ideas to Margaret Field - thanks