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 [...]

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 [...]

In this article about emails 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, [...]

Including a web address in an email is relatively straightforward. Most email programs will even make the address into an active link to the web page provided it is written in a way that is recognisable as a web address. One problem though is that email programs often wrap text after so many characters and [...]

Adding line feeds into a form field is one way crackers attempt to break into your script to apply their own mods. By testing for it and stripping them out of form fields where such characters are not valid input you can block that method of cracking your script. Email Injection

I don’t have all the answers and sometimes one visitor to my site is kind enough to help out a prior visitor with an answer to their question. Here is Luke’s explanation of how to reaolve the problem an anonymous visitor was having where they Can’t Embed Images in Email.

The steps to set up an email account for any domain that you have that has cpanel available on the hosting is relatively straightforward. Creating an Email Account using cPanel

When sending the one email to more than one person, particularly when those people do not know one another, it is extremely poor practice to include all their email addresses in the To: and Cc: fields. Doing so not only means that people may have to scroll down a long way just to get past [...]

One often looked for feature that people want to be able to add to their web pages is a form on the page allowing their visitors to “tell a friend” about the page by sending them an email linking to that page. This short tutorial shows some HTML and PHP code that you can add [...]

There are two ways to attach images into an HTML email. You can either place the image on the internet somewhere and link to it from your email or you can embed the image into the email itself. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages as this article discusses. One advantage of linked emails is [...]

My form2mail script was the first significant PHP script that I had written that I decided to offer the opportunity for other people to use. In fact I decided to offer two versions of the script. The free version of the script allows you to have as many fields in the form as you like [...]

Files that are available for download from a web site or which are sent to you as an attachment to an email are often in a compressed format. This provides several benefits – the file itself is smaller because it is compressed and also the compressed file may in fact contain several related files all [...]