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		<title>Gmail POP3 &amp; SMTP Server Settings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standard Gmail POP3 &#38; SMTP instructions: Enable POP in Gmail. Don&#8217;t forget to click Save Changes when you&#8217;re done. Configure your client to match the settings below: Incoming Mail (POP3) Server &#8211; requires SSL:&#160; pop.gmail.com Use SSL: Yes Port: 995 Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server &#8211; requires TLS:&#160; smtp.gmail.com (use authentication) Use Authentication: Yes Use STARTTLS: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong>Standard Gmail POP3 &amp; SMTP instructions:</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273">Enable POP in Gmail</a>. Don&#8217;t forget to click <strong>Save Changes</strong> when you&#8217;re done.</li>
<li>Configure your client to match the settings below:<span id="more-55"></span></li>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><span><strong>Incoming Mail (POP3) Server &#8211; requires SSL:&nbsp;</strong></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">pop.gmail.com</span><span><br />
<strong>Use SSL</strong>: Yes<br />
<strong>Port</strong>: 995 </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><span><strong>Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server &#8211; requires TLS:&nbsp;</strong></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">smtp.gmail.com</span><span> (use authentication)<br />
<strong>Use Authentication</strong>: Yes<br />
<strong>Use STARTTLS</strong>: Yes (some clients call this SSL)<br />
<strong>Gmail SMTP Port</strong>: 465 or 587 </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="right"><span><strong>Account Name:&nbsp;</strong></span></td>
<td><span>your full email address (including <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">@gmail.com</span> or <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">@your_domain.com</span>) </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="right"><span><strong>Email Address:&nbsp;</strong></span></td>
<td><span>your email address (<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">username@gmail.com</span> or <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">username@your_domain.com</span>) </span></td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top" align="right"><span><strong>Password:&nbsp;</strong></span></td>
<td><span>your Gmail password </span></td>
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<p>Unless you&#8217;re using recent mode to download mail to multiple clients, make sure you&#8217;ve opted not to leave messages on the server. Your Gmail settings determine whether or not messages stay on the server, so this setting in your client won&#8217;t affect how Gmail handles your mail.</p>
<p>Please note that if your client does not support SMTP authentication, you won&#8217;t be able to send mail through your client using your Gmail address.</p>
<p>Also, if you&#8217;re having trouble sending mail but you&#8217;ve confirmed that encyrption is active for SMTP in your mail client, try to configure your SMTP server on a different port: 465 or 587.</ol>
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<h2><strong>To configure Outlook 2007 for your Gmail Server address:</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273">Enable POP in your email account</a>. Don&#8217;t forget to click <strong>Save Changes</strong> when you&#8217;re done.</li>
<li> Open Outlook.</li>
<li> Click the <strong>Tools</strong> menu, and select <strong>Account Settings&#8230;</strong></li>
<li> On the <strong>E-mail</strong> tab, click <strong>New&#8230;</strong></li>
<li> If you are prompted to <strong>Choose E-mail Service</strong>, select <strong>Microsoft Exchange</strong>, <strong>POP3</strong>, <strong>IMAP</strong>, or <strong>HTTP</strong>, and click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>
<li> Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:</li>
<p><strong>Your Name:</strong> Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.<br />
<strong>Email Address:</strong> Enter your full Gmail email address (<em>username@gmail.com</em>). Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format <em>username@your_domain.com</em>.<br />
<strong>Password:</strong> Enter your email password.</p>
<p><strong>Manually configure server settings or additional server types:</strong> Leave this option unchecked if you want to automatically configure Outlook 2007. If you want to manually configure Outlook 2007, check this box now. Google Apps users should configure manually as follows.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-59" title="add-new-email-account" src="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/add-new-email-account.png" alt="add-new-email-account" width="642" height="483" /></p>
<li> Click <strong>Next</strong>. If you are configuring Outlook 2007 automatically, you&#8217;re done! Just click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-60" title="configuring-email-server" src="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/configuring-email-server.png" alt="configuring-email-server" width="637" height="481" /></p>
<li> If you are configuring Outlook 2007 manually, select <strong>Internet E-mail</strong> and click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>
<li> Verify your <strong>User Information</strong>, and enter the following additional information:</li>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Server Information</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Account Type:</strong> POP3</p>
<p><strong>Incoming mail server:</strong> pop.gmail.com (Google Apps users, enter the server names provided, don&#8217;t add your domain name in these steps)</p>
<p><strong>Outgoing mail server (SMTP):</strong> smtp.gmail.com</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Logon Information</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>User Name:</strong> Enter your Gmail username (including @<em>gmail.com</em>). Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format <em>username@your_domain.com</em></p>
<p><strong>Password:</strong> Enter your email password.</p>
<p><strong>Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA):</strong> Leave this option unchecked.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-61" title="email-account-details" src="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/email-account-details.png" alt="email-account-details" width="640" height="484" /></p>
<li>Click the <strong>More Settings&#8230;</strong> button, and select the <strong>Outgoing Server</strong> tab.</li>
<li>Check the box next to <strong>My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication</strong> and select <strong>Use same settings as my incoming mail server.</strong></li>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63" title="smtp-setup" src="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smtp-setup.png" alt="smtp-setup" width="409" height="452" /></p>
<li> Click the <strong>Advanced tab</strong>, and check the box next to <strong>This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)</strong> under <strong>Incoming Server (POP3)</strong>.</li>
<li> In the <strong>Outgoing server (SMTP)</strong>(Gmail SMTP Port) box, enter <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono;">587</span>, and select <strong>TLS</strong> from the drop-down menu next to <strong>Use the following type of encrypted connection:</strong>.</li>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62" title="pop3-setup" src="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pop3-setup.png" alt="pop3-setup" width="409" height="451" /></p>
<li> Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>
<li> Click <strong>Test Account Settings&#8230;</strong> After receiving &#8216;Congratulations! All tests completed successfully&#8217;, click <strong>Close.</strong></li>
<li> Click <strong>Next</strong>, and then click <strong>Finish.</strong></li>
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<p><strong>Congratulations!</strong> You&#8217;re done configuring your client to send and retrieve Gmail messages.</div>
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		<title>A8N32-SLI Deluxe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fixing Vista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aaaaw, the old mobo]]></description>
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<p>Aaaaw, the old mobo <3</p>
<p>I upgraded recently to the M2N-SLI-Deluxe ;)</p>
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		<title>Orangehome Email Settings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Username and Email Address Your broadband username, which you should use when connecting to the Internet is in one of the following formats: yourname.orangehome.co.uk@fs yourname.wanadoo.co.uk@fs yourname.freeserve.co.uk@fs yourname.fsnet.co.uk@fs yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk@fs yourname.fslife.co.uk@fs yourname.fsworld.co.uk@fs Your Dial Up and Email Username will be in one of the following formats: yourname.orangehome.co.uk yourname.wanadoo.co.uk yourname.freeserve.co.uk yourname.fsnet.co.uk yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk yourname.fslife.co.uk yourname.fsworld.co.uk You chose the &#8216;yourname&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Username and Email Address</h3>
<p>Your broadband username, which you should use when connecting to the Internet is in one of the following formats:<span id="more-49"></span><span style="background:#fff; float:left; margin:10px 10px 35px 0px; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; border:1px solid #333;"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<blockquote><p>yourname.orangehome.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.wanadoo.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.freeserve.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.fsnet.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.fslife.co.uk@fs<br />
yourname.fsworld.co.uk@fs</p></blockquote>
<h3>Your Dial Up and Email Username will be in one of the following formats:</h3>
<blockquote><p>yourname.orangehome.co.uk<br />
yourname.wanadoo.co.uk<br />
yourname.freeserve.co.uk<br />
yourname.fsnet.co.uk<br />
yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk<br />
yourname.fslife.co.uk<br />
yourname.fsworld.co.uk</p></blockquote>
<p>You chose the &#8216;yourname&#8217; segment when you registered with Orange, Wanadoo or Freeserve.</p>
<p><em>Please note:</em><br />
@fs should not be used in email or webspace settings</p>
<p>Your email address is your choice of name, followed by the &#8216;@&#8217; sign and your email username, eg mail@yourname.orangehome.co.uk</p>
<p>You can use as many email addresses before the &#8216;@&#8217; sign as you like, eg:</p>
<blockquote><p>bob@yourname.orangehome.co.uk, elisabeth@yourname.orangehome.co.uk and paul@yourname.orangehome.co.uk.</p></blockquote>
<p>For details of valid email addresses, see choosing your orange email address.</p>
<h3>Access Your Email Online</h3>
<p>You can access your email here: http://email.orange.co.uk</p>
<h3>Advanced Orange Home settings</h3>
<p><strong>Server settings</strong><br />
The address of the Orange POP mail server is: pop.orangehome.co.uk<br />
The address of the Orange SMTP mail server is: smtp.orangehome.co.uk<br />
Do not use secure password authentication to access mail</p>
<p><strong>IP address</strong><br />
Your IP address is allocated dynamically via DHCP- you do not need to set this. We are unable to offer a static IP address.</p>
<p><strong>DNS</strong><br />
<em>Note:</em><br />
DNS settings should be set to &#8216;automatically obtain&#8217; &#8211; there are only rare instances where Orange settings should be used. For information, the first set of Orange DNS settings are for IPStream customers, the second set for LLU.</p>
<p>Domain name service is dynamic.</p>
<p>If connecting to a router, and need DNS settings for home networking, use the IP address or your router, i.e. * 192.168.1.1</p>
<p>If Orange <strong>domain name server (DNS) addresses</strong> are required, you should use:</p>
<blockquote><p>195.92.195.94 and 195.92.195.95</p></blockquote>
<p>Or, if you experience problems with the above, use:</p>
<blockquote><p>193.36.79.101 and 193.36.79.100</p></blockquote>
<h3>Dial Up FTP and HTTP Proxy Settings</h3>
<blockquote><p>Address:http://www-cache.orangehome.co.uk:8080<br />
Port Number: 8080</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Router settings</strong><br />
If you choose to use an Ethernet modem / router, the correct connection settings are:</p>
<p><strong>Encapsulation:</strong><br />
PPP over ATM</p>
<p><strong>Multiplexing method:</strong><br />
VC-Based</p>
<p><strong>Virtual circuit:</strong><br />
VPI=0<br />
VCI=38</p>
<p><strong>Modulation:</strong><br />
Multi mode</p>
<p><strong>Authentication:</strong><br />
CHAP<br />
MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)</p>
<p>In case of problems with a third party router, change MTU to 1492 (Livebox default setting)</p>
<p><strong>Dial-up numbers</strong><br />
If your computer is connected to the Internet, you can get your dial-up number (and connection settings) from our account retrieval pages:</p>
<p>https://www.orange.co.uk/signup/reclaim/ar10.cfm</p>
<p>If your computer isn&#8217;t connected to the Internet, you can use an Orange CD to set-up your computer. If you have already registered, select the Retrieve Account tab and follow the links to Retrieve Your Account.</p>
<h3>Site Builder/ FTP My Site</h3>
<p><strong></strong>The address of your website can take the form:</p>
<blockquote><p>http://mysite.orange-members.co.uk/sitename or http://sitename.mysite.orange-members.co.uk/</p></blockquote>
<p>If you use FTP My Site the FTP server address is sitebuilder.orange.co.uk</p>
<p>Your username takes the form:</p>
<blockquote><p>name@yourname.orangehome.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.wanadoo.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.freeserve.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.fsnet.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.fslife.co.uk|sitename<br />
name@yourname.fsworld.co.uk|sitename</p></blockquote>
<p>Your Password is the one you chose when registering with the My Site service.</p>
<p>You can register for Site Builder/ FTP My Site by visiting http://www.orange.co.uk/communicate/sitebuilder/</p>
<p><em>Note:</em><br />
These details were taken directly from the Orangehome support website cached by Google. This page has been added here as an archive because the page is currently no longer available or has moved somewhere else on the Orangehome support site, which I cannot find. I/We take no responsibility of any kind for the way in which this information is used.</p>
<p><strong>Other Orange Home Related Posts:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/general/smtp-e-mail-service-with-orange-uk.html">E-mail Service Problem</a></p>
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		<title>BT &#8211; &#8216;Company of the Year&#8217; Caught Stealing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more money you have, the easier it becomes to steal; though I use the term steal loosely. Yes, this is going to be a rant on how screwed up one of BT&#8217;s company policies is. I work from home and don&#8217;t exactly receive a daily plethora of phone calls. Most of the time the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The more money you have, the easier it becomes to steal; though I use the term steal loosely. Yes, this is going to be a rant on how screwed up one of <strong>BT&#8217;s company policies</strong> is.<br />
I work from home and don&#8217;t exactly receive a daily plethora of phone calls. Most of the time the calls that I receive are in fact cold calls. A couple of weeks ago it occurred to me that all of a sudden that I had not been receiving these pesky calls for some time and whilst I was not over the moon about it, it was non-the-less a pleasant thought. A couple of days ago I realised that it was not a stroke of luck, neither was it some ingenious BT update that was actually doing what it was supposed to be doing all along, to have me off their lists to prevent cold-callers, but in fact my <strong>BT line was all but dead</strong>. That&#8217;s right; I was off the grid so to speak because of <strong>a fault on BT&#8217;s line</strong>.<span id="more-46"></span></p>
<p>How could I have not been alerted to this earlier you may well ask; well the fact that <strong>my internet connection that runs through the same line did not have a problem with it</strong> kind of masked the problem for me. I mean, I&#8217;m not an engineer, not a telecommunications engineer anyway, and I have never worked for <strong>BT services</strong> ever, so, how would I know? Using the phone? I don&#8217;t, I only use it to receive calls.</p>
<p><strong>Were they stealing my money?</strong></p>
<p>I call BT support and ask them politely, all the while quietly fuming inside, what the problem is with my line. For the last month I have neither been able to receive nor make phone calls from my line for which I am paying you guys at BT. They test the line (whilst I wait on hold, hoping not to lose them as this is the third time that I have had to call!!) and come back to me informing me that the line has a fault. Really?</p>
<p>BT organise to have the line repaired and my calls redirected to my mobile number. They also tell me that they will refund me the cost of the line for every day AFTER the ALLOCATED repair date. Ok, not too bad though, allegedly the line will be repaired tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>What about all the calls and potential business I missed?</strong><br />
Tough, apparently BT keep no such record.</p>
<p><strong>What about some compensation on the cost of the BT line rental for that period that I could not use the line for calls?</strong><br />
Tough, BT will only compensate you AFTER you report a fault and AFTER the date they allocate to fix your line.</p>
<p><strong>Are you telling me it is ok to keep stealing until you get cought? Only give back what you are taking AFTER you are receiving a complaint about it?</strong><br />
(no response, just another &#8220;I&#8217;m terribly sorry, but&#8230;&#8221;)</p>
<p><strong>What about the cost of the calls to BT to have the fault fixed (seeing as it is a freephone number, from landlines)?</strong><br />
Tough, you are told at the start of the call that it is chargeable and if you want to make the call for free, apparently I should have visited a neighbour!</p>
<p><strong>What about the fact that, as BT proudly display on their bills, they won the &#8216;Company of the Year Award&#8217;?</strong><br />
Well, actually I didn&#8217;t ask this, I merely stated that it appeared to be a joke from my perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Company of the Year?</strong><br />
BT, I seriously hope not. All this the day AFTER I was promised a call-back because their system was down. I guess she forgot.</p>
<p>This is so WE do not forget. Clever policies do not make for good business-customer relationships, only bitter ones. It is not stealing after all, my mistake, it is &#8216;Company Policy&#8217;.<br />
Take care, and be warned.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Are they deliberately wasting my time? </strong></p>
<p>They only went and redirected the landline to the wrong mobile number! So, guess what, I&#8217;m <strong>calling AGAIN</strong> to have them rectify <strong>yet another problem caused by BT</strong>. Another tailback, an automated ringback is on offer telling me that they will callback within 45 minutes&#8230; Let&#8217;s see how they do this time.</p>
<p>Callback within 5 minutes direct from india and the redirect has been updated. Apparently. I&#8217;ll check in 30 minutes once <strong>BT&#8217;s super-computers</strong> update. It&#8217;s a bit like waiting for Google to come and spider your site again to list your new content, except, as soon as Google knows the content is there, it is added&#8230; hmmm&#8230; Not so super I guess.</p>
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		<title>Orange Home Outgoing SMTP E-mail Service Problem &#8211; SOLUTIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.finaldesign.co.uk/blog/general/smtp-e-mail-service-with-orange-uk.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See Andy&#8217;s solution in the Comments suggesting &#8216;Try 193.252.22.138 instead of smtp.orangehome.co.uk&#8217;. I have tested this and it works.) Before saying anything else, avoid Orange Home Broadband service like the plague if you use either Microsoft Outlook or Windows Vista. // // // ]]&#62; Having spent the last 3 hours on the phone with OrangeHome [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(See Andy&#8217;s solution in the Comments suggesting &#8216;Try 193.252.22.138 instead of smtp.orangehome.co.uk&#8217;. I have tested this and it works.)</em></p>
<p>Before saying anything else, avoid Orange Home Broadband service like the plague if you use either Microsoft Outlook or Windows Vista.</p>
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<p>Having spent the last 3 hours on the phone with OrangeHome (0870 010 2462), with 5 different Technical representatives, 1 hour with my techie (Web Host) and untold combinations in the effort to get my mail to send from Outlook on the Windows Vista platform, I have finally given up. It seems to be a lost cause.</p>
<p>Not only is my outgoing mail being blocked at Orange (built on Wanadoo), but they insist that the problem lies with everyone else. Interesting seeing as my set-up was working absolutely fine on Outlook from my laptop running XP (Service Pack 2) until I switched to Orange Broadband &#8211; &#8216;Unlimited&#8217; (yes, you may now laugh. I am.)</p>
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<p>So, No mail from either my Vista Desktop or my XP laptop; in fact the only way that I can send any mail at all is using WebMail or the mail account provided to me by OrangeHome. It would only be fair to say that the e-mail account Orange provied me with will send mail from Outlook Express though. Unfortunately the only way that I can send e-mail through my 12 other accounts is now via a web browser at my host&#8217;s WebMail service.</p>
<p>It goes without saying that I will be switching ASAP.</p>
<p>Be warned, Orange Broadband, &#8216;unlimited&#8217; has provided in my opinion, not only the worst internet service ever in the UK, but also the worst customer service I have ever experienced.</p>
<p>ClaraNet, here I come  ;)</p>
<p><strong> UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p>I urge everyone to write to the Orange CEO at the following email address: <a href="mailto:Olaf.Swantee@orange.co.uk">Olaf.Swantee@orange.co.uk</a></p>
<p>Also, if you are lucky enough to have a flexible email service provider (ie you have your own website domain and are hosting a website with a company) you may be able to get the mail through using another SMTP port such as 587 (as opposed to the standard port 25) as it is port 25 that Orangehome blocks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<title>htaccess file notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[htaccess is an Apache thing, not an NT thing. There are similar capabilities for NT servers, though in my professional experience and personal opinion, Apache is best. But that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re here for. htaccess files must be uploaded as ASCII mode, not BINARY. You may need to CHMOD the htaccess file to 644 or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>htaccess is an Apache thing, not an NT thing. There are similar  capabilities for NT servers, though in my professional experience and  personal opinion, Apache is best.  But that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re here for.</p>
<p>htaccess files must be uploaded as ASCII mode, <em>not</em> BINARY. You          may need to CHMOD the htaccess file to 644 or (RW-R&#8211;R&#8211;). This makes          the file usable by the server, but prevents it from being read by a          browser, which can seriously compromise your security. htaccess files affect the directory they are placed in and all  sub-directories, that is an htaccess file located in your root  directory (yoursite.com) would affect yoursite.com/content,  yoursite.com/content/contents, etc. <span id="more-10"></span>It is important to note that this  can be prevented (if, for example, you did not want certain htaccess  commands to affect a specific directory) by placing a new htaccess file  within the directory you don&#8217;t want affected with certain changes, and  removing the specific command(s) from the new htaccess file that you do  not want affecting this directory. In short, the nearest htaccess file  to the current directory is treated as the htaccess file. If the  nearest htaccess file is your global htaccess located in your root,  then it affects every single directory in your entire site.</p>
<p>Before you go off and plant htaccess everywhere, read through this  and make sure you don&#8217;t do anything redundant, since it is possible to  cause an infinite loop of redirects or errors if you place something  weird in the htaccess.</p>
<p>You will probably want to create an error document for codes 404 and  500, at the least 404 since this would give you a chance to handle  requests for pages not found. 500 would help you out with internal  server errors in any scripts you have running. You may also want to  consider ErrorDocuments for 401 &#8211; Authorization Required (as in when  somebody tries to enter a protected area of your site without the  proper credentials), 403 &#8211; Forbidden (as in when a file with  permissions not allowing it to be accessed by the user is requested)  and 400 &#8211; Bad Request, which is one of those generic kind of errors  that people get to by doing some weird stuff with your URL or scripts.</p>
<p>In order to specify your own customized error documents, you simply        need to add the following command, <em>on one line</em>, within your        htaccess file:</p>
<pre><strong>ErrorDocument code /directory/filename.ext</strong> or <strong>ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html</strong></pre>
<p>This would cause any error code resulting in 404 to be forward to yoursite.com/errors/notfound.html<br />
Likewise with: ErrorDocument 500 /errors/internalerror.html</p>
<p>You can name the pages anything you want (I&#8217;d recommend something  that would prevent you from forgetting what the page is being used  for), and you can place the error pages anywhere you want within your  site, so long as they are web-accessible (through a URL). The initial  slash in the directory location represents the root directory of your  site, that being where your default page for your first-level domain is  located. I typically prefer to keep them in a separate directory for  maintenance purposes and in order to better control spiders indexing  them through a ROBOTS.TXT file, but it is entirely up to you.</p>
<p>If you were to use an error document handler for each of the error  codes I mentioned, the htaccess file would look like the following  (note each command is on its own line):</p>
<pre>ErrorDocument 400 /errors/badrequest.html
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/authreqd.html
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/forbid.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/serverr.html</pre>
<p>You can specify a full URL rather than a virtual URL in the  ErrorDocument string (http://yoursite.com/errors/notfound.html vs.  /errors/notfound.html). But this is not the preferred method by the  server&#8217;s happiness standards.</p>
<p>You can also specify HTML, believe it or not!</p>
<pre>ErrorDocument 401 "&lt;body  bgcolor=#ffffff&gt;
You have to actually &lt;b&gt;BE&lt;/b&gt;
a member to view this page!</pre>
<p>The only time I use that HTML option is if I am feeling particularly  saucy, since you can have so much more control over the error pages  when used in conjunction with xSSI or CGI or both. Also note that the  ErrorDocument starts with a &#8221; just before the HTML starts, but does not  end with one&#8230;it shouldn&#8217;t end with one and if you do use that option,  keep it that way. And again, that should all be on one line, no naughty  word wrapping!</p>
<h4>Blocking  Users by IP</h4>
<p>Add the following &#8211;changing the IPs to suit        your needs&#8211;each command on one line:</p>
<pre>order allow,deny
deny from 123.45.6.7
deny from 012.34.5.  allow from all</pre>
<p>You can deny access based upon IP address or an IP block. The above  blocks access to the site from 123.45.6.7, and from any sub domain  under the IP block 012.34.5. (012.34.5.1, 012.34.5.2, 012.34.5.3, etc.)  I have yet to find a useful application of this, maybe if there is a  site scraping your content you can block them, who knows.</p>
<h4>Block traffic from a single referrer</h4>
<pre>RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]</pre>
<h4>Block traffic from multiple referrers</h4>
<pre>RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]</pre>
<p>In the &#8220;single referrer&#8221; case above, &#8220;badsite\.com&#8221; is the domain  you wish to block. Note the backslash proceeding the period (&#8220;.&#8221;) to  actually donate a period, as in Regular Expressions, a period donates  any character, which is not what we want. The flag &#8220;[NC]&#8221; is added to  the end of the domain to make it case insensitive, so whether the  domain is &#8220;badsite.com&#8221;, &#8220;Badsite.com&#8221; etc, however bad it gets, it  gets blocked. Finally, the last line in the .htaccess file specifies  that the action to take when a match is found is to fail the request,  meaning the referrer traffic will hit a 403 Forbidden error. The only  difference between blocking a single referrer and multiple referrers is  the modified [NC, OR] flag in the later case to every domain but the  last.</p>
<p>The definition of a &#8220;bad bot&#8221; varies depending on who you ask, but  most would agree they are the spiders that do a lot more harm than good  on your site (ie: an email harvester). A site ripper on the other hand  are offline browsing programs that a surfer may unleash on your site to  crawl and download every one of its pages for offline viewing. In both  cases, both your site&#8217;s bandwidth and resource usage are jacked up as a  result, sometimes to the point of crashing your server. Bad bots  typically ignore the wishes of your robots.txt file, so you&#8217;ll want to  ban them using means such as .htaccess. The trick is to identify a bad  bot.</p>
<p>Below is a useful code block you can insert into.htaccess file for  blocking a lot of the known bad bots and site rippers currently out  there.</p>
<pre>RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download Demon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express WebPictures [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image Stripper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image Sucker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Indy Library [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet Ninja [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC Web Spider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass Downloader [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown tool [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister PiX [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net Vampire [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline Explorer [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline Navigator [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa Foto [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport Pro [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web Image Collector [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web Sucker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo IS [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website eXtractor [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website Quester [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon WebSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]</pre>
<p>Bots that are listed above will all receive a 403 Forbidden error  when trying to view your site. The amount of bandwidth savings and  decrease in server resource usage as a result may be significant in  many cases.</p>
<h4>Redirects</h4>
<p>htaccess uses redirect to look for any request for a specific page  (or a non-specific location, though this can cause infinite loops) and  if it finds that request, it forwards it to a new page you have  specified:</p>
<pre><font size="1">Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html</font></pre>
<p>Note that there are 3 parts to that, which should all be on one line :        the <strong>Redirect</strong> command, the location of the file/directory you want redirected  relative to the root of your site (/olddirectory/oldfile.html =  yoursite.com/olddirectory/oldfile.html) and the full URL of the  location you want that request sent to. Each of the 3 is separated by a  single space, but all on one line. You can also redirect an entire  directory by simple using <strong>Redirect /olddirectory        http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/</strong></p>
<h4>Disallowing Hotlinking</h4>
<p>Using .htaccess, you can disallow hot linking on your server, so  those attempting to link to an image or CSS file on your site, for  example, is either blocked (failed request, such as a broken image) or  served a different content (ie: an image of an angry man) . Note that  mod_rewrite needs to be enabled on your server in order for this aspect  of .htaccess to work. Inquire your web host regarding this.</p>
<p>With all the pieces in place, here&#8217;s how to disable hot linking of  certain file types on your site, in the case below, images, JavaScript  (js) and CSS (css) files on your site. Simply add the below code to  your .htaccess file, and upload the file either to your root directory,  or a particular subdirectory to localize the effect to just one section  of your site:</p>
<pre>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|js|css)$ - [F]</pre>
<p>Be sure to replace &#8220;mydomain.com&#8221; with your own. The above code  creates a failed request when hot linking of the specified file types  occurs. In the case of images, a broken image is shown instead.</p>
<h4>Serving alternate content when hot linking is detected</h4>
<p>You can set up your .htaccess file to actually serve up different  content when hot linking occurs. This is more commonly done with  images, such as serving up an Angry Man image in place of the hot  linked one. The code for this is:</p>
<pre>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/angryman.gif [R,L]</pre>
<p>Same deal- replace mydomain.com with your own, plus angryman.gif.</p>
<h4>Preventing Directory Listings</h4>
<p>Typically a server is setup to prevent directory listing, but  sometimes they are not. If not, become self-sufficient and fix it  yourself:</p>
<pre>IndexIgnore *</pre>
<p>The * is a wildcard that matches all files, so if you stick that  line into an htaccess file in your images directory, nothing in that  directory will be allowed to be listed.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what if you did want the directory contents to be  listed, but only if they were HTML pages and not images? Simple says I:</p>
<pre>IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg</pre>
<p>This would return a list of all files <strong>not</strong> ending in        .jpg or .gif, but would still list .txt, .html, etc.</p>
<p>And conversely, if your server is setup to prevent directory  listing, but you want to list the directories by default, you could  simply throw this into an htaccess file the directory you want  displayed:</p>
<pre>Options +Indexes</pre>
<p>If you do use this option, be very careful that you do not put any  unintentional or compromising files in this directory. And if you  guessed it by the plus sign before Indexes, you can throw in a minus  sign (<strong>Options        -Indexes</strong>) to prevent directory  listing entirely&#8211;this is typical of most server setups and is usually  configured elsewhere in the apache server, but can be overridden  through htaccess.</p>
<p>If you really want to be tricky, using the +Indexes option, you can  include a default description for the directory listing that is  displayed when you use it by placing a file called <strong>HEADER</strong> in the same directory. The contents of this file will be printed out  before the list of directory contents is listed. You can also specify a  footer, though it is called <strong>README</strong>, by placing it in  the same directory as the HEADER. The README file is printed out after  the directory listing is printed.</p>
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		<title>The plague &#8211; 1 &amp; 1 Web Hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<title>That&#8217;s me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so as you may already know, I&#8217;m a creative at heart. I love movies, adore music, but more than anything, love to create. I do what I enjoy and love a good challenge. I work way too many hours in the day (make that night) but have the privilege of being my own boss, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, so as you may already know, I&#8217;m a creative at heart. I love movies, adore music, but more than anything, love to create. I do what I enjoy and love a good challenge. I work way too many hours in the day (make that night) but have the privilege of being my own boss, so who cares&#8230; I&#8217;m doing what drives me.<span id="more-1"></span></p>
<p>I have wanted to start writing a blog for absolutely ages but keep getting snowed under with other endeavours. So it&#8217;s a late start and I&#8217;m really not one to go into many personal details anyway. I hate talking about myself. This blog is less about me and more about my travels and discoveries in my related fields. Perhaps, when I&#8217;ve actually written some posts&#8230; It will become a decent resource for information. Perhaps I&#8217;ll even put in extra-extra time to do some design work for my own blog one day!</p>
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