Limit of Aliases or Nicknames on Gmail

Google Apps for Business limits the number of aliases or nicknames for an account to a maximum of 30.  If an account already has 30 nicknames Google will suggest that you use a catch-all address.  However, if you do that you will probably get a server error form Google.  Apparently you can only set a catch-all address to an account that had not reached the 30 nickname limit.

To set a catch-all address:

From the Google Apps DASHBOARD click on EMAIL under the Core Google Apps suite and then scroll to EMAIL ROUTING and select ROUTE TO CATCH-ALL ADDRESS.

POP Email Account Limitations

Through the course of using your POP Email you may encounter the following limitations.

Incoming Mail Size

There is a 30MB limit per email message you receive. Messages larger than 30MB are rejected by our incoming server and a bounceback message is sent to the sender. There is no limit on the number of email messages you can receive.

Outgoing Mail Size (SMTP Relay)

There is a 30MB limit per email message that you send using SMTP, including file attachments, which have a size limit of 20MB total. Messages larger than 30MB are rejected by our outgoing server and you are notified.NOTE: The receiving mail server may have different size restrictions. Many mail providers and ISPs will reject mail larger than 10 MB.

Number of Addresses (SMTP Relay & Hosted Exchange Email)

You can send messages to up to 100 total addresses per email message. Even if you are below your limit of the number of relays per day, a message is rejected if you specify more than 100 unique recipients.

Number of Addresses (Web-Based Email)

Web-Based Email does not limit the total number of messages you can send per day; however, there is a limit of 100 addresses on a single email message. The 100 addresses may be included in any combination of the To, CC, and BCC fields. If there are more than 100 total addresses, the Compose window shows an error and the message is not sent. You must revise the recipient list and then resend your message.
Counting recipients: Web-Based Email expands any distribution lists and aliases to their actual recipients. Any duplicate addresses in the To, CC, and BCC fields are removed.

Accessing Email and Hosting Control Panel

To access your email go to: mail.yourdomainname.com

• If you are a Google Apps Business customer that is all you will need. You can configure the email for your domain (and additional domains) from this address.

• If you are hosted on the OrderStorm POP email servers you will use mail.yourdomainname.com for your incoming and outgoing email servers and yuo may use either POP or IMAP.  To access the OrderStorm POP webmail go to: https://control.orderstorm.com:28205

To access your OrderStorm control panel go to: https://control.orderstorm.com:18205

• OrderStorm uses Virtualmin.  For help and more information on how to use your control panel see: www.virtualmin.com
• In your OrderStorm control panel you are able to access site analytics and logs; configure FTP and SSH access; add email accounts; configure PHP and MySQL; and many other back-end site functions.

If you have questions, please send email to support@orderstorm.com

Blackberry Desktop Software Fails on Windows 7 or Vista

I have noticed many posts about issues with the Blackberry Desktop software and Windows 7 or Vista.  On Windows 7 you may see a pop up window with the error message: Blackberry desktop software has stopped working Windows is collecting more information about the problem. This might take several minutes. This message will display just after you try to start the Blackberry Desktop software.

What is happening here is that the Blackberry Desktop software has some incompatibility with Windows 7 that causes Windows 7 to go to the Microsoft site to automatically check for solutions to the problem.  If there is no connection to the internet then Windows hangs and the Blackberry Desktop software cannot start.  Here is where it gets really strange.  We tried to produce the problem by turning off the wireless switch on the Lenovo T61.  If we went from an active wireless connection and simply turned off the wireless switch the Blackberry Desktop software would still start.  In order to reproduce the problem we had to remove the wireless connection we were using from the manage wireless networks in Windows 7 and reboot then we could not open the Blackberry Desktop software.

If you need the Blackberry Desktop software to tether your laptop to your cell phone for an internet connection this is a very frustrating situation because the Blackberry Desktop software will fail when you are not connected to the internet and that is when you need the Blackberry Desktop to work so you can tether to connect.

To resolve the problem try this:

1.      From the START menu search for choose how to report problems and click on choose how to report problems under Control Panel.

2.      On the Choose when to check for solutions to problems reports window change the selection to Never check for solutions (not recommended)

This will prevent Windows 7 from trying to make connection to the Microsoft site and thus allow the Blackberry Desktop software to open and not hang.

Happy tethering with your Blackberry!