Wordpress and Mailgun - Making the Records Verify If you are here you already know why we are using Mailgun with WordPress, so we'll skip that. Mailgun DNS Records Won't Verify! I tried a number of solutions to get mailgun to verify my DNS records and it was a nightmare guessing game. That being said, I figured it out. A quick note on SPF records before we continue: [box … [Read more...] about Setup Mailgun with cPanel and Google Apps
Thunderbird – How to Make Email Reply Above or Before Quoted Text
Depending upon how you like to reply to emails, you may want to have your reply to an email come above quoted text. For those of you who don't use quoted text, quoted text is a feature whereby when you reply to an email, the email program automatically includes the text from the email you are replying to. It's very helpful -- especially when you are working with someone and … [Read more...] about Thunderbird – How to Make Email Reply Above or Before Quoted Text
Mac OS X POP and IMAP Email Protocols
Q: Does the Mac support POP and IMAP? A: Yes, but more important questions (and answers) are: 1) Does my email provider support POP/and or IMAP (or any other protocol) access? 2) Does my email client support POP/and or IMAP? Not all email providers provide IMAP access, where practically every one supports POP, so if you want IMAP you will need to do a little more work to … [Read more...] about Mac OS X POP and IMAP Email Protocols
How to Test to See if an Email Link is Safe, or if a Website Has a Virus or Malware
Sometime you get a link -- via email or on the web -- that you are just not sure about. First let me say that you should be VERY cautious about any link sent to you in email -- especially one that you don't recognize.What spammers, scammers and thieves often do is to make a link look safe, but make the actual page you go to when you click on the link an alternate or … [Read more...] about How to Test to See if an Email Link is Safe, or if a Website Has a Virus or Malware
How to Backup IMAP Email for Free with IMAPSize (Backup IMAP with Freeware)
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm a big fan of the IMAP email protocol. As I've also mentioned, an advantage of POP is that that the emails are downloaded directly to your computer, so backup of these messages is pretty straightforward. But for those of us who use IMAP, backing up our messages is still just as critical. So after many weeks of searching and testing, I … [Read more...] about How to Backup IMAP Email for Free with IMAPSize (Backup IMAP with Freeware)