Email

Probably the most popular category on this site. Help with getting your email on the road, setting up your email program to work with your new domain, etc.

There was a server move and I can’t send mail (or it’s bouncing)

A handful of you are saying your having trouble sending out mail, it's bouncing back, or both. I just submitted a ticket to the host to get some more help and I'll let you know what they say. The long and short of it, however, is that although there are some tricks and settings we [...]

Using [email protected] in Yahoo

You can use your Yahoo (or Gmail etc.) account to get your [email protected] email. This saves you the hassle of POP and SMTP settings, figuring out how to send email from your hotel room or a wireless Internet cafe, and gives you a solid email program and reliable service. What's not to like? Here's a [...]

Moving Email

If you're changing hosts and you use [email protected], it can be difficult or impossible to transfer old email (sent items, inbox, etc.) and your address book. If you don't care about that old mail or address book, great, no worries. If you would like to try to keep some of that, here are a few [...]

Email Obfuscator

Jason Brantley over at Axis Computer Consulting recommended a stronger-than-PHP method of obfuscating--or munging, hiding, encrypting--email addresses on websites: the email address munger. Here's an excerpt from their site: Email address munging is the act of using ASCII, JavaScript, and scrambling of letters in your email address in order to hide your email address from [...]

Vertical Response

I've been looking for some time for mailing list software that didn't charge a monthly fee, but rather on a per email or per recipient basis. Please use the link below to sign up for Vertical Response and you'll get 25 emails free to test with. After that, it's around one penny per recipient for mass emailings. No monthly fees, no sign-up fees.

Bounced Email and Null Senders

Just got a note from my host after a client said mail was bouncing to her. Turns out that my host uses some spam-prevention techniques that will bounce email that doesn't comply. In my opinion, this sounds like an issue that the sending party's host should deal with as our host is just battling spam. [...]

Insert Image in PHP List

The new version of PHP List (2.10.4) makes it easier to embed an image into your newsletter/mass mailing. Here's a video that walks through the process. Insert Image in PHP List

Nedstat now doing pop-up ads

We used to use Nedstat as a free counter (statistics) for websites but they just recently starting doing pop-up ads on sites. If you have been getting these (or heard of someone getting them on your site), let us know and we'll remove them.

PHP List :: Templates

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Domain Name Registration: My Real Address?

The governing body of domain names, ICANN, says you should have "not false" information about yourself as the domain name owner (see article on GoDaddy website here). My guess is that it's so when they're tracking down spammers they can find the information about the guilty party and go after them. It basically says this: [...]

Why to Not Have Your Email on a Website

I reluctantly have my email listed (plain text [email protected]) on a business networking site I'm a member of. Here's what happened. My email is listed on the site in regular text, so it's easy for the spammers to collect and add to their databases. Now spam is no fun, but "phishing" is potentially dangerous. See [...]

Blacklist or Whitelist?

There are probably as many strategies to stop spam as there are to send it. For the article below, I'm only talking about working with YOUR email address ([email protected]), not blacklisting or whitelisting THEIR email addresses ([email protected]). Here are two main strategies. Blacklist Allow all mail to come in to any email address with your [...]

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