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What went wrong

If I’m lucky, the only reason I get a phone call before 7am is because somebody on the east coast forgot about the timezones between them and me. The alternative is almost always bad news. » about 900 words

Blogging By Email

WordPress has some simple built-in support for posting by email, but that didn’t stop a couple people from developing plugins that might do better. Postie and PostMaster both claim to support attached photos (though neither appears to use WP’s built-in media management). But if your goal is to post photos, you might consider posting through Flickr.

Using WordPress With External SMTP Server

I really don’t like having sendmail running on a webserver, but some features of WordPress just don’t work if it can’t send email (user registration, for example). Still, WordPress offers support to send email through external SMTP servers instead if a local mailer.

In <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/pluggable.php">/wp-includes/pluggable.php</a> around line 377, change

``` $phpmailer->isMail(); ```

to

``` $phpmailer->isSMTP(); ```

Then, in <a title="/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php - WordPress Trac - Trac" href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php">/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php</a> around line 155, set your SMTP host:

``` var $Host = "my.smtphost.com"; ```

You may also need to set a username and password, and tell WP to attempt authentication. You’ll see those in the lines below the hostname variable.

``` var $SMTPAuth = true; var $Username = "username"; var $Password = "password"; ```

On the other hand, you could do this via a plugin, perhaps even Callum McDonald’s WP Mail SMTP.

Gmail IMAP vs. Previous POP3 Users

Google Mail now supports IMAP, but what if you’ve been using POP3 all along and have a gajillion messages on the server, all marked unread and waiting in your inbox? How can I tell Apple Mail not to download the [Gmail]/All Mail IMAP folder without an ugly hack? [Update, the hack just causes Mail to crash a lot.]

Zimbra Rocks

Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies). Go ahead, watch the Flash-based demo or kick the tires with their hosted demo. I think you’ll agree that it looks better than anything else we’ve seen yet. Part […] » about 400 words

Email 2.0

From Ross Mayfield in Many2Many:

this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private

[FWD:] Katrina Eyewitness Report

(about the photo) The following report comes from CosmoBaker.com, which includes this preamble: EDIT: The following is an email that was sent to my mother from one of her colleagues. Although I cannot substantiate the contents, after all the horror stories that I’ve heard so far, I though that this one was important to tell. […] » about 2700 words

AWStats

As much as I like the bstat functionality of bsuite, I never intended it to be a replacement for a full server log-based stats application. That’s why I’m happy my hosting provider offers AWStats. The reports suggested ways to optimize my pages so that I could control my bandwidth consumption — up to 3.7GB/day before […] » about 200 words

The Coming Information Age

That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at […] » about 500 words

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