For anyone still using a dialup connection to connect to the internet, it may not always be convenient to read all your emails during the one session online and it may not be worth dialing back in just to see the rest of your emails. Fortunately most email clients download all your emails while you are connected and allow you to read them whenever you like without having to be connected to do so.
By performing the steps in the right order you can easily move web hosting from one hosting provider to another without your visitors even being aware of the move. This is particularly true for static web pages and with pages that allow your visitors to post their own comments etc. you will a worst lose a comment or two. The biggest difficulty is actually the email accounts that you have on the domain you are moving between hosts. In this article we look at how you can arrange things so as to ensure you don’t lose emails during the move.
Not a new web page but a brand new version of my advanced form2mail script is now available. The new version adds the ability to wrap error messages inside of your regular page header and footer so that it still looks like it is a part of your site. It also provides for a blacklist array to be entered that will disallow any email addresses that contain any of the strings in the array from appearing in any email address that is specified for either the destemail or replyemail fields. For example I have placed @aol into the blacklist array which prevents any AOL addresses being used to send me emails (and hence should reduce the chances of bugus spam reports).
p.s. I have now switched to a different ISP who assures me that they will actually examine any emails reported as spam before taking any action rather than shutting down internet access every time they receive a bogus report. I am still not prepared to receive emails through the forms on my site from AOL though so as to reduce the possibility of their sending out more bogus spam reports about my emails.
This week’s new additions to the site deal with emails. In this first article we look at some of the different MIME types that can be defined in emails and what they are used for. By using the appropriate MIME types in your email you can provide alternative parts in plain text, HTML etc, embed images in the email, add attachments, digitally sign emails, and even encrypt emails so that only the intended recipient can read them. All of this of course should be handled for you automatically by your email program however if for any reason you need to view the actual plain text source code of an email then this information will help you to see which parts of the email do what.
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