Category: Web and Network

  • Simple PEAR PHP script to send emails using AuthSMTP

    require_once “Mail.php”;function send_mail_pear (){ $mail_to = ‘recipient1@domain.com, recipient2@domain.com’; $mail_subject = ‘Enquiry From Website’; $mail_from = ‘My Website ‘; // make sure email is authorised in your AuthSMTP account$mail_body = ‘Email body HTML’;$headers = array( ‘From’ => $mail_from, ‘To’ => $mail_to, ‘Subject’ => $mail_subject, ‘Content-type’ => ‘text/html; charset=utf-8’);$smtp = Mail::factory(‘smtp’, array( ‘host’ => ‘ssl://mail.authsmtp.com’, ‘port’ =>…

  • Hostgator shared hosting – emails sent via PHP mail not delivered

    Emails sent using PHP mail() function are not reaching recipients. Sender’s domain is a domain that has a website hosted on the same Hostgator server (which I believe is a requirement). After a bit of troubleshooting I found that the issue occurs if recipient’s domain has a website hosted on the same Hostgator server as…

  • Logitech Harmony Hub and Amazon Alexa integration issues

    Logitech recently added Amazon Echo Alexa integration for Hub based Harmony remotes. This promises a fantastic smart-home voice enabled integration allowing complete control over your home entertainment system. For example, simply saying “Alexa, turn on TV” can turn on your TV, AV Receiver, Cable Box, set everything to the right inputs, dim your smart-light, etc. This sounds like the…

  • Installing Toastman’s Tomato on Asus RT-N16

    Toastman’s Tomato custom router firmware has great tools for tracking both live and historical client data transfers (download / upload / bandwidth). This was the main reason for installing “Tomato” on my Asus RT-N16. I tried using this tutorial but kept having issues trying to uploading the firmware via Asus Firmware Restoration Utility. Instead I went slightly different…

  • Configure Draytek Vigor 2860 to work Huawei E3372 4G USB Dongle

    Plug the Huawei E3372 USB dongle into USB-1 port on Draytek Vigor (which corresponds to WAN-3) WAN > General Setup. Make sure WAN3 is Enabled and set to Always On.

  • Virgin Super Hub Blocks VPN Connections

    By default Virgin Super Hub will block outgoing VPN traffic, even with firewall disabled. To allow all VPN connections perform following:

  • Export emails from Gmail for Work – downloading your data is disabled

    Issue A user is getting error when trying to export his emails via Google “Download you Data” feature. My Account > Personal Info and Privacy > Control your Content > Create Archive. Downloading your data is disabled.Downloading your data has been disabled for your account or organization by your domain administrator.

  • Draytek Vigor – You have reached the maximum number of permitted internet sessions…

    Issue Users accessing Internet via Draytek Vigor 2820 router occasionally get following message in their browsers and can not longer access Internet: You have reached the maximum number of permitted Internet session.Please close one or more application to allow further Internet access.Contact your system administrator for further information.[Powered by DrayTek]

  • Emails to BT Internet recipients delayed (SMTP 421 Too many messages)

    Issue Users with IMAP mailboxes hosted on one.com are getting 421 bounces when sending emails to BT Internet customers: This is the mail system at host mailrelay5.public.one.com. ##################################################################### THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. ##################################################################### I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message has not yetbeen…

  • DELL SonicWALL – get AirPlay and DLNA working between bridged LAN and WLAN

    Setup DELL SonicWALL NSA 220 wireless-N LAN and WLAN interfaces Bridged (on the same subnet) Issue Streaming protocols that rely on multicast (such as Apple Bonjour/AirPlay and DLNA/UPNP) don’t work between devices that span LAN and WLAN zones. If all devices are either on Wireless or Wired part of the network, everything works fine. On residential routers…

  • Kunena Forum – You are banned until Today

    Issue After restoring a Joomla website from a backup, all users logged on to a Kunena Forum are greeted with “You are banned until Today” message…

  • Fix ‘Leverage browser caching’ Google Webmaster Tools warrning

    Google Webmaster Tools “Leverage browser caching” warning can be resolved by adding following to the .htaccess file on your (Apache) web server: ## Browser caching ##<IfModule mod_expires.c>ExpiresActive OnExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access 1 month”ExpiresByType…