With the ever increasing volume of SPAM being transmitted, many email services look toward more elaborate ways to authenticate email. Beyond the obvious – content – two commonly used methods (perhaps with some variations), include sender policy framework (SPF), and … Continue reading
Despite having been around for a long time, telnet is an invaluable tool for testing a mail server. It allows one to pinpoint errors in the process – some which are not logged – and to quickly validate that things … Continue reading
I had a few files containing email attachments that needed to be converted into usable files. The following code (which has no checks in it), did the trick: <?php function decode_email_attachment(){ $data= file_get_contents($inputfile); file_put_contents($outputfile, base64_decode(str_replace( “\r\n”, “”, $data ))); } … Continue reading
Despite ever increasing security, it appears that email accounts are breached more often now than ever before. Quite possibly this comes down to the user as opposed to the email service itself. The focus of this article includes distinguishing between … Continue reading