The difference between POP3 and IMAP email accounts.
Oct 11 26
Many people may not even know this but when you are setting up your email
addresses there are two different account types you can set up – POP or IMAP. POP3 is the standard on most email clients and it is the most widely used, but IMAP may be more suitable depending on how you want to handle your emails.
POP3
POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) is the most widely used for email accounts. With
POP3, new messages are downloaded off the mailserver and stored on your email
client. So managing all operations on the account such as reading, deleting or
moving an email are all handled on your computer rather than on the mailserver.
This means the account is available whether you are online or offline and no
changes are communicated back to the mailserver.
Pros and Cons of POP3:
Pros:
- POP3 is well supported in all email clients.
- POP3 is faster than IMAP.
- You can view and manage your emails offline.
- Most email clients will allow you to keep a copy of email on the server.
Cons:
- Your email can only be viewed on one device
IMAP
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) differs from POP3 in that your emails are stored on the mailserver and all actions performed on the account are communicated back to the mailserver.
IMAP is useful for managing your account through more than one device. You can have the account set up at work, at home and on your phone, and anything you do on the account such as mark the email as read, or add a new folder etc will be seen the same way on each device. e.g You send an email from your phone and you can then see that in the sent folder on your
computer when you get home.
Pros and Cons of IMAP:
Pros:
- Your email messages can be synchronized over multiple devices.
- All folders -Inbox, Sent Items, Trash etc are available on all devices you use.
- More than one person can simultaneously manage the same email account.
Cons:
- You must be online to view your emails.
- IMAP uses more bandwidth.
- IMAP is slower
New Plesk Servers
Oct 11 19
We will be moving reddwarf.1st4domains.co.uk to it’s new UK server this evening.
From tomorrow morning onwards you will need to login to the new contol panel address as follows:
https://ynh7.uk.easy-server.com:8443
with your exisiting username and password.
If you used the IP address for the FTP host you will need to change this to :
ftp.yourdomain.co.uk
(obviously replace yourdomain.co.uk with your actual domain).
Please get in touch with any queries but we hope you will be much happier with the speed of the new server.
Who are we and who works there?
Mar 11 22
Who are we?
Who works there?
Doug Smith – Boss/Godfather
One of two partners who started Your Name Here back in 1998.
Starting from our back room we soon reached sales figures of £25,000 per week (yes – per week). A quick move was required as we took staff on and over the years have worked in a number of locations. Nowadays sales are much more modest and because I have such FANTASTIC staff I really have very little input. I’m so proud of the way they look after my business and let me pursue other interests. I really do owe a huge debt of gratitude to them. Please people…when you’re dealing with Alison, Craig or Christine just mention “Dougie really appreciates you” (because I don’t tell them that enough).
Alison
I was born and bred in Lytham St Annes and started out as a Sales/Support Advisor in March 2000 and was promoted to Manager back in 2002 by Doug when he decided to open a hotel in Blackpool and take more of a back seat, he did deserve a break though he worked 24 hours some days and none of this would be here without him! (curtsy/bow) So I do a bit of everything really, sales, marketing, support and general server admin. My Blackberry is always on so if you have an emergency (obviously not a medical one) email me on alison@your-name-here.co.uk and I will help.
Craig
Craig was born and bred in Blackpool and started in April 2006 when he decided on a career move to IT, he will help you with your sales/technical support queries by email and phone and won’t patronise you with technical talk, he also does general server admin and updates our blog with helpful tips on everything and anything, he has a great sense of humour and supports Manchester United which is either a good or a bad thing depending on your view.
craig@your-name-here.co.uk
Christine
Christine has been here since May 2005 and also has a great sense of humour and looks after all the sales ledger accounts and renewals. She also answers general queries on domains and hostings, she’ll send your invoices and receipts and remind you by email when your domain and hosting are due, so make sure your email address is up to date or you may miss it.. she’s from Yorkshire and keeps us in all check so it’s always a good idea to renew on time…
accounts@your-name-here.co.uk
We work really well as a small team along with our sister company Best Designs which is also owned by Doug, they have designed many of our customer websites along with our own, some of you may have spoken to David who’s worked here since July 2001 and is a bit of a technical guru, he looks after the other web designers Danny and Jordan. Gillian is their Manager who is from Ayrshire and has worked here since 2001, she also manages Best Hotel which offers hotel advertising with a new booking engine coming soon!
Competitor Pricing & Our Service
Mar 11 22
We’ve noticed many of the larger hosting companies will offer you large amounts of disk space which you either don’t need or will never use.
Many of these don’t offer Mysql databases on their small hosting which you will need if you want to use software like Wordpress or Joomla or anything you want to install which requires a database. So it may sound great but in reality it means you need to upgrade to the next package which will invariably cost you around £100 a year, so not so cheap afterall..
Through our experience over the years with our customers we feel our packages reflect the right amount of space and features which do include Mysql databases and we don’t charge the earth, starting at £21.25 plus VAT per year for 50Mb of space is really all you need for your personal or small business website, this can accommodate 20 plus pages depending on your content. Obviously we do larger hosting packages as well, have a look at these here:
www.your-name-here.co.uk/hosting.html
We’re a small business and want to look after you, we’ve been looking after you since 1999 and you’re not just a number to us…and we don’t have a call centre.. we always answer the phone, in fact Christine will answer it so quickly it barely has chance to ring! Some customers leave us for the ‘big boys’ and discover they don’t look after them or ‘it’s not what they thought’ so they come back..they really do..
We don’t have an email ticket system, you email myself (Alison), Craig or Christine directly or contact us via the website which goes straight to our inbox. We won’t ignore you for 2 days or be in a queue like the larger companies (we know this from experience). We answer emails within the hour during office hours because we really are here to help you. Our servers are montitored 24/7 at the datacentres in the UK & US where we lease our servers.
If any of the services go down, a technician is notified and the service is restarted so we have it all covered and just thought you might like to know a bit more about how we do things, and it’s just worth seeing exactly what you’re getting for your money when you see those cheaper deals.
Problem sending emails from your domain, if you are a Sky Broadband customer
Mar 11 22
SURF – SPEAK – SEE (But not Send!)
When you’ve set up your emails for your own domain and you are setting up the account in Outlook you would normally use mail.domainname.co.uk for your incoming mailserver and your outgoing mailserver would be the address of your Broadband provider’s SMTP server.
The SMTP address for Sky users is smtp.tools.sky.com, but you cannot use this server to send emails from your domain name’s email address.
With almost all other Broadband providers you can use their SMTP server for your domain name, and it never used to be a problem with Sky but now you can only use smtp.tools.sky.com if you want to send an email from your Sky address.
We can provide users with an alternative SMTP server if they are having issue sending through their Internet provider but this also does not work as it seems that Sky block and third party SMTP server for their customers. So this leaves users a bit stuck when they want to send out emails from their domain or website.
The solution is to use webmail. You can login to our own Webmail service at http://webmail.domainname.com. This will allow you to send and receive emails from your domain name regardless of who your Internet is with. Some people will find this a bit different from an email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird, but until Sky lift their current restrictions (if they ever do) then this would be the alternative.
Hello , i am Lauren. – EMAIL SCAM
Dec 10 15
You may have received the following email:
From: info@your-name-here.co.uk
Sent: 14 December 2010 11:48
To: info@your-name-here.co.uk
Subject: hi
I found your email in my friends list,
i think we talked some time at the one of social networks or not.
So i will remind you a little bit about me, i live in USA , Atlanta, GA.
I love to travel, visit new places, new countries. I am planning to visit UK once again,
that is why i am looking for friends here, it is always more interesting to travel
and to have good time together then alone.
So if you live in UK and you are single i will wait your email.
I am not interested in correspondence if you are married or have a girlfriend.
My e-mail is: info@laurenkisses.com
I hope to get your answer and of course i want to see your photo.
Have a good day
Kisses
This is currently being broadcast on a massive scale and it is all over the Internet. They appear to be sending the spam through a different server each time they send an attack, and the email appears to be sent from your own address so it is proving difficult to block.
How to transfer your domain name
Dec 10 10
Depending on the domain extension there is a different process for transferring your domain name:
For any .uk domain name
All UK domain names are registered through Nominet.
Each registrar of Nominet has their own ‘tag’ which allows them to directly register and manage the domain name on behalf of their customer. Our tag is ‘CHARD’ To transfer your domain name to us you need to contact your current domain host and ask them to change the tag on your domain name to CHARD.
For any Global TLD – .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ
If your domain is of global type (eg .com/.org/.net/.biz etc) then the process is slightly different.
- Firstly you need to contact your current domain host and ask them to ‘unlock’ the domain name and to also provide you with an authorisation code.
- Advise us once this is done and we will then request the transfer through our TLD registry which is Tucows Inc.
- The domain registry will then send an automated email to the admin contact for the domain (you need to make sure the admin contact is a current working email address)
- The admin contact then uses the authorisation code to confirm the transfer.
- The domain transfer will then take upto 7 days to complete. Once it is completed the domain name will automatically renew for a further year.
Please note domains can not usually be transferred if registered within the last 60 days, or if they have gone past their expiry date.
Must have Wordpress Plugins
Dec 10 09
Wordpress Plugins are excellent tools which add extra functionality to your site. Anything you can think of to add to your blog or website, there is probably a Wordpress plugin for it. There are thousands of Plugins out there but here are just a few which we would recommend for any website/blog.
This is an excellent Plugin that will generate a special XML sitemap which will help all the top Search Engines index your website.
With the sitemap in place, it makes it much easier for the search engine crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
The sitemap will also notify all the major search engines every time you create a post or add new content to your website.
2. Akismet
This really is a must for any blog as you undoubtedly will receive spam through your blog’s comments section. Akismet is an anti-spam program in which your web host connects to Akismet’s servers and
checks your comments against the Akismet web service, to see if they look like spam or not. It lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Thank Me Later is an excellent comments plugin
which sends the readers a personalized ‘Thank You’ e-mail after commenting. You can set the time after which mail is sent and can include comment URL, comment and 5 recent posts in the e-mail. A great tool which makes your visitor feel welcome and encourages them to re-visit your wesite.
SEO or ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ is so importnat to your website.
The sites that appear on page 1 of a Google
search do so because they have good SEO. The All in one SEO plugin is ideal. The admin section allows you to add your site wide settings such as home title, meta description and keywords. You can also change your posts individually, SEO pack allows you to create a keyword rich title and description. This will overide the title you set when writing your post. This plugin is very well thought out and you don’t have to be a tekkie to understand the layout and options.
This plugin allows your readers to get your posts automatically in an RSS
feed or via email? It connects your posts to Feedburner.google.com which sends your posts out to your
subscribers. You may recognize the universal feed icon in the image to the right from your favorite websites or blogs.
These icons mean the site has an RSS feed to which you can subscribe and read/watch/listen using a feed reader. A Blog Feed is basically a stripped down version of your blog – The Blog Title, Post headings and an excerpt of each of your posts. There are lots of additional plugins that can be used to improve your RSS feed but as a starter this is a great way to get readers to subscribe to your content.
There are many more we could have added but we would definately recommend these 5 Plugins to get you started.
Deleting Emails in Webmail
Jun 10 17
We often get asked why your mailbox is still full when you have deleted all your emails via Webmail.
When you click delete, if you then see a line through the emails you then need to hit ‘Purge Deleted’ in order for the emails to be completely removed from your mailbox.