Is It Possible to Trace Gmail?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]

Default Email Problems: When 2 Emails are Not The Same!

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Recently, a client encountered problems when trying to send out and receive emails from the default email account in CPanel. That is to say that they were trying to send out email from an email account that happened to match the username for that account. The only problem was that when the remote smtp server [...]

Setting Up Email for Talk Talk Broadband

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

When setting up your email for Talk Talk Broadband you need to establish it as a POP3 account in your email client, be it Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever else. The rest of the details are as follows:
Talk Talk Email Settings

E-mail address: username@talktalk.net
Reply-to address: username@talktalk.net
Incoming mail Sever: mail.talktalk.net
Incoming mail account type: POP3
Incoming mail [...]

Shell Scripting MySQLdump and FTP File Backup

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

The purpose of this article is to give you a quick fire introduction to the world of shell scripting. It is by no stretch of the imagination a complete guide to the technique of shell scripting but It will give you the basis of a script for backing up your web files and mysql databases, [...]

How To Setup Backup or Secondary MX in CPanel

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

If your mail server goes down, what happens to your emails? In this article, I run through the scenario and talk about the solutions, or the non-solutions, that you might like to consider in terms of safeguarding the loss of any of your clients's emails, as well as the how-to of implementing them.
What Does Happen [...]

Setting Up SPF Records in CPanel, WHM, and Namecheap

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren't valid mail relays for your domain.

SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain zone [...]

Setting Up Your Outlook Email Client for POP & IMAP for CPanel

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

In this article we will be using Outlook 2003 as an example, but all versions of Outlook operate pretty much the same way, with the same looking screens. In the article we also assume that you have already set up the required email account under the "Mail" section of CPanel. If you don't have an [...]

Sphider: The Web Site Search Tool

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

One of the first things that any visitors considers doing when they hit your web site is to search. This is all and well if you are running an PHP/MySQL driven web app like OScommerce or Expression Engine, but what if your site runs on static pages like this one? You can't always rely on [...]

How To Setup 301 Redirects for a Page or Entire Domain

Monday, August 4th, 2008

301 Redirects are a big part of SEO and making sure that (A) the search engine bots find your content correctly, and (B) understand that the old page or domain is the same as the new one and thus combine the overall rank statistics to the one location. In essence the 301 redirect simply [...]

Port Forwarding in OSX with SSH Tunnel Manager

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

When you are stuck behind a corporate firewall, it can seem like the end of the world. hwoever, if you can SSH out, then all is not lost. Using port foorarding and SSH tunnels you can acheive pretty much anything you need. In this article we run through how to set up and use SSH [...]