Mailing Issues

I’ve come across an issue where one of my clients suddenly stopped receiving emails from his website contact form.  Checking various blacklists can sometimes result in the solution: https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/ http://www.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi However, in...

Getting mail to work through a zone file

cPanel has a bunch of options to setup mail, but what it seems to really be doing is changing the zone file associated with the given domain.  At that point, I am finding it less confusing to just edit the zone file directly.  For email, the following must be in a...

Alias your gmail address

I came across an article that talked about how to get around using the same email for two different Twitter accounts: Twitter Tip: Create Multiple Twitter Accounts With the Same Email Address   To me, the article suggested that there would be a way to link two...

Repairing mail through CDN

A short while ago, I updated blueprintq.com to go through a CDN.  Today, I noticed that I was not receiving email; although, I was able to continue sending. CDNs inject themselves by updating the zone file’s “A” domain record.  Evidently, CDNs can...

Searching your gmail account

At the top of the gmail screen is a textbox that acts as a filter against all existing email.  Typically, you might use this textbox to search for emails with specific terms found in the body.  However, this textbox has a whole lot more to filter against. Here’s...