Tonight (April 25, 2022) we will be performing upgrades to the Safeguard Send App for Office 365 underlying architecture. The maintenance window will be open for two hours starting at 8pm EST, but if everything goes as planned, it will only be for a few minutes. Note that we are referring to the “pure” Microsoft […]
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The One Thing You Can Do To Improve Your Email Security
In light of recent world events, leaders have been advising all email users to have a posture of “shields up”. In fact, most recently President Biden tweeted a warning about the potential for a cyberattack. Furthermore, one of my favorite podcasters, Lex Fridman (who covers many science and STEM personalities) recently interviewed Nicole Perlroth (who […]
Dealing With Outlook’s Autocomplete Feature
Have you made this mistake? You go to compose a new email, place the cursor on the To line and start to type a few characters. At this point a helpful dropdown appears with the name of your intended recipient along with the email address. BUT, a problem arises when you accidently select the wrong […]
Why It’s Important to Convert Your Emails to PDF Early And Often
We recently had a customer who is using the Save As PDF Pro add-in to convert emails regarding a particular legal matter to PDF. Lots of customers do this and it is a normal way to archive important emails. However, legal cases being what they are, a long period of timed elapsed between the first […]
We Now Accept Bitcoin and Other Crypto Currencies
Here at Sperry Software we have to be aware of changing trends in both our email related industry and also in other areas, for example payment methods. One payment method that has caught our attention is Bitcoin. This emerging trend is very promising, particularly for those in poorer countries, as the transaction fees are lower […]
How to Enforce Timely Responses By a Team When Using a Shared Mailbox
For some companies, timely responses are important but when several employees are using a single Outlook shared mailbox to deal with customer inquiries, it can be a problem because users have difficulty determining who “owns” a particular email or even if anyone in the company has responded. Additionally, while users who have access to a […]
How to Send Texts Through Email
Recently a user asked us to build the ability to send text messages through email from the Outlook Timed Email Organizer add-in. Can we build into the add-in the ability to send text alerts? Yes, but sending texts implies a subscription cost that we would have to pass onto you, and we don’t want that. […]
Introducing Quick Text Hotkeys Pro
We’re all trying to be more efficient as we work from home. It’s important that once you carve out a few minutes of time, to be able to answer as many emails as possible before the next distraction comes along. To be as efficient as possible, wouldn’t it be great if as soon as you […]