IMAP or POP3?

IMAP or POP3?

Have you ever been confused about IMAP and POP3 when setting up your device to access your email account? With careful setup you can access all your email from all your devices; avoid going over-quota at the mail server; and have a single location where all your...

WooCommerce and Authorize.net hint

When using the WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM module, don’t forget that the configuration needs a different API ID and Transaction Key when in Test Mode from that when in Production Mode. This is because the module accesses the Authorize.net sandbox when in Test...
The POODLE Bug

The POODLE Bug

You may have read about a vulnerability in a security package called SSL v3. Servers around the world are turning off SSL v3 and using a replacement system. You may receive emails from such services as Authorize.net, UPS or PayPal that they are doing this. A...
The POODLE Bug

The Shell Shock Bug

You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in the shell program BASH. This is a software package run on Linux servers to provide, amongst other things, command line functionality. On our servers we do not provide either the public or our customers with shell...

The Heartbleed Bug

You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in OpenSSL. This is a security package run on Linux servers like those we run here at Ashdown. So did our servers put you at risk? The short answer is no. The majority of our web servers run a version of OpenSSL that...

PHPFox Template Functions

If you are a developer using this Social Networking Package you’ll already know that the documentation is pretty thin.  It uses PHPFox template functions similar to Smarty, but not identical.  We have been unable to find any documentation on the functions...

Poppassd and CentOS 6

Introduction We use poppassd to implement a feature that allows our email customers to change their account password. It is a service that runs on the system that hosts the account, using xinetd. The Poppassd/CentOS 6 Problem We recently discovered that the version we...