Tag Archives: GMail

My email server sucks.

Posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007 by Ben L.

Before I start this blog post, I want to say something completely un-related:  I switched to PHP5 today.

Ok, so I tested out a new contact form that I’m building and…  15 minutes later I get the email in my inbox.  Which means that if I’d used Google’s GMail servers to send messages, I’d be saving 15 minutes of (what I hope is) waiting in a line for my message to be sent.

I was searching around for a way to use SMTP with my PHP configuration, and I found this.  From what I have figured out so far, it’s the perfect addition to my contact form.  I was using the contact form by Nate Dentzau, but with this new PHP class

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New smilies/Testing all smilies

Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 by Ben L.

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Upgrade@@

Posted on Friday, August 10th, 2007 by Ben L.

So, I tested the blog for safety flaws and found out that I was using Wordpress 2.2.1 when I should have been using Wordpress 2.2.2.  Go figure.  It’s all upgraded now, and back online.  If anyone sees any bugs, just let me know.  I can be reached here for bug reports for this blog Continue reading →

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