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PHP mail on IIS Windows 2016 Server

How?

IIS MANAGER
Configure SMTP E-mail here to send using an external mailserver will work for ASP scripts – Deliver to SMTP server with credentials

IIS 6.0 MANAGER
Configure the SMTP server here to make the PHP mail-function work.
Properties:
Access-Connection – Grant only your own server IP and 127.0.0.1
Access-Relay – Grant only your own server IP and 127.0.0.1
Delivery-outbound security – Basic Auth login details TLS
Delivery-Advanced – Smart Host smtp server name

PHP.INI
SMTP = 127.0.0.1
smtp_port = 25

SERVICES
configure SMTPSVC to start automatic, so you won’t go crazy after your next reboot…

Transparent calender items in Thunderbird

I am not the only person with this problem:
Something calendar entries in Lightning register as status Tentative and it shows in a different transparent shade of the calendar color. I can manually change the status to confirmed directly in lightning however that is a pain. Plus, it sounds crazy but having these entries a different shade/color drives me nuts.

Now see: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2318957 for a way to deal with this… except of course, it is not the complete solution and only works after a slight modification. So what to do:

prevent caching

Prevent caching?
change the HEADERS!

Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0

GOOD INFO HERE:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49547/how-to-control-web-page-caching-across-all-browsers

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Magento security on IIS

Access to /app/etc/local.xml is not so desired since it contains your db login.
However IIS does ignore .htaccess, so you need to change the local web.config file. Continue reading Magento security on IIS

AVG

BRON: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/onderwerpen/avg-nieuwe-europese-privacywetgeving/voorbereiding-op-de-avg

In 10 stappen voorbereid op de AVG

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center

Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn’t that it’s difficult to do, but in that there so many different ways of doing it, depending on the situation, it’s hard to know which to reach for.

So let’s make it a decision tree and hopefully make it easier. Continue reading center