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Adding your mailbox to the new Outlook fails: the messages and what to do

The short answer: when the new Outlook cannot add your mailbox, it is nearly always one of these: the password is not the mailbox one, the manual settings (IMAP) are…

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A 30-minute monthly routine to keep your website healthy

The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested).…

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Checking your site’s HTTPS setup: certificate, chain, expiry and protocols

The short answer: the browser’s padlock does not tell the whole story. A site can show the padlock on your computer and fail on other devices because of an incomplete…

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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP

Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…

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How an e-mail travels: SMTP to the MX server, then IMAP or POP to the reader

The short answer: an e-mail travels in three legs, and each leg uses a different protocol. First, your program hands the message to your server over SMTP, with a username…

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HTTP or HTTPS: what changes for visitors, forms and the services that call your site

Short answer: use HTTPS, always. Here every domain gets a free SSL certificate automatically, so the real question is almost never “do I have to buy one?” but “is my…

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Categories and tags in WordPress: how to use each without making a mess

The short answer: categories are the blog’s big sections (few, and each post fits in one); tags are loose keywords, more specific (many, and each post has a few). Using…

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Moving to cPanel from Plesk, DirectAdmin or another panel: what moves and what you rebuild

A control panel is just the shop window for five things that exist on any server: files, databases, mailboxes, DNS records and scheduled tasks. So changing panels means copying those…

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Subdomain or folder: where to put a blog, a shop or a test site

Short answer: what should strengthen the main site, such as a blog of articles, goes better in a folder (asuaempresa.co.mz/blog). What is technically separate, such as a test site, an…

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SMTP relay through a smarthost: sending mail from a VPS or from an application

This article is for people with a VPS or server with root access, or an application that sends e-mail. The short answer: instead of your server delivering mail straight to…