The registrars are having a new wave of spammig schemes that make you think something is wrong with your domain name. The lastest example targets Network Solutions and goes something like this: Dear Network Solutions® Customer, On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:20:36 +0530 we received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the Whois database for this domain … [Read more...] about New Domain Name Spamming Scheme?
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DNS Services
Last year when we had our web calendar spamming incident, I was talking to another web developer here in town who suggested we look at Google Apps for e-mail. Right now I am forever grateful to this guy for pointing me in this direction, as I was heading to getting another server just to host e-mail. This also set me up to be able to upgrade the web server easier because I … [Read more...] about DNS Services
IMAP & Google Apps for Your Domain
Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD) has become a great tool for our small business clients. One feature they are very happy with is the e-mail, which is based on the GMAIL platform. With the advent of the Blackberry and the Treo phones, the GAYD makes it easy to to keep up with your e-mail. We are now so entrenched with POP3 that along the way everyone forgot the IMAP. There … [Read more...] about IMAP & Google Apps for Your Domain
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I just took over full ownership of the dedicated server where I host most of my client websites. It is definitely a learning experience for me as I have limited knowledge of linux and ssh, etc. However, as I am trying to familiarize myself with the full admin access to the server, I noticed on the desktop a link to the Mail Queue. So, I clicked. What I found was that … [Read more...] about [email protected]
Get Rid of Spam
I spent some time this morning signing up a few clients’ blogs for the Askimet spam service. It seems that the more hits the blogs get, the more spam they get. I have spent numerous, unpaid, hours trying to do everything I can to combat the spam that is inundating our server and continues to do whatever it can to block our e-mails from coming and going. It used to be a … [Read more...] about Get Rid of Spam