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Hello Everyone

Here are some frequently asked questions about email hosted with REW on our servers at Rackspace. If you are still hosted on the old Planet servers your settings will be slightly different.

How do I get to webmail?

To access your Horde webmail go to webmail.example.com/ (where example is your domain name). Then sign in with your full email address (john@example.com) and your password.

What is my incoming mail server?

Your incoming mail server is mail.yourdomain.com and you should connect with POP3 to port 110 (the default).

What is my outgoing mail server?

Your outgoing mail server is mail.yourdomain.com and you should connect with SMTP on port 25 or 587.

The reason there are two ports is that some Internet Service Providers will…

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Outlook Express to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Outlook it will prompt you with the New Mail Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Accounts. Go to the Mail tab and click the Add button on the right and select Mail.

Step 1

Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail.

Step 2

Enter your email address.

Step 3

Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com. Select POP3 for your incoming server.

Step 4

Enter your account name. This is your full email address.

Enter your password.

Click Finish.

Step 5

Now we need to change some other settings. In the Tools menu go to…

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Thunderbird it will prompt you with the Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Account Settings. Click the Add Account button.

Step 1

Select Email account and hit next.

Step 2

Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail.

Enter your email address.

Step 3

Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com. Select POP3 for your incoming server.

If you have previously set up email accounts you will not be able to set your Outgoing server here. See Step 7 at the bottom for how to do this.

Step 4

Enter your user name. This is…

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For the security of the servers and your mail we have some rules about email passwords. Please keep these in mind when requesting a new password.

Any password for an email account must meet ALL of these requirements.

1) must be 6 - 14 characters long

2) must contain at least 1 lower case letter (a - z)

3) must contain at least 1 upper case letter (A - Z)

4) must contain at least 1 number (0-9)

5) must contain at least 1 symbol !@#$%^&* or bracket ()

Please keep these rules in mind when requesting a new email password.

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The eternal question, How do I get less spam?

Well let’s talk about how spammers get your email address.

Simple email names on well SEO’d domains. For example having info@myhighrankingdomain.com will get you a ton of spam. Bots user dictionary lists and will just sent spam to every name in the dictionary list at a domain. Having a well SEO’d domain will just get you found faster by bots. So try to avoid using simple words like info or webmaster and first names like joe or mike or bob. A good idea would be to use your first initial and your last name. This is much less likely to be in spammers dictionaries.

Don’t have your email as plaintext on your website. An email in plain text on a website is far too easy for a bot to find and add to a…

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Greetings to all REW clients

In an effort to improve performance of Web1 - We have been looking at all our options and we have decided that upgrading the processors on this server will give you the most bang with the least downtime.

We will be replacing the single single-core AMD Opteron 250 with two dual-core Opteron 270 chips. This is currently planned for 3:00 AM Central time on Friday April 11, 2008. The server is expected to be down for 30 minutes or less. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We look forward to a much faster server for you and your visitors. If you are unsure of what server you are on please post in the forum with your domain name and someone will check for you.

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A very important concept in programing a system that will be used by people is Input Validation. When programmers miss this it can make life difficult for others trying to deal with the data.

As I deal with IDX Data I come across this a lot. I recently had a feed with 32 different spellings of a city name. Many of them were just typos like a semicolon (;) instead of an l ( the keys are next to each other on most keyboards ). Other cases were misspellings or variations of a name. An example would be "Saint James", "St. James", and "St James" ( without a period after St ).

If the MLS Board had Input Validation then users of the system would select the city from a list. This would fix more than just they typos and variations on the same name, it would…

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When using javascript in IE 7, you don't need to use getElementById

Thus in IE 6 you would do:

Code: <script>
var city = document.getElementById('city');
alert(city.innerHTML);
</script>

And in IE 7 you can do

Code: <script>
alert(city.innerHTML);
</script>

city is automatically an object pointing to the HTML tag with the id of that name.

This also means that if you accidentally use a variable with the same name as an id of an element, you will get errors.

I'm sure this gives rise to some kind of security flaw.

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