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The end of the year is an opportunity for many to take some vacation. Therefore, we want to take the opportunity to suggest how to set up an automatic holiday answer to your Servage e-mail so that you can relax properly and  devote yourself to other things than answering e-mails. - What is an autoresponder? An auto-reply (also called a holiday reply) is a preset message that is automatically sent to the people who email you during the holiday (or any other time when you do not have the time or opportunity to reply).  - - - What information should be given in an autoresponder? The information ...

Regardless whether you run an established company or if your new business idea is still in the start-up phase, you can already put a serious stamp on your growing brand with professional e-mail addresses with your own domain name, eg info@yourdomain.com . It gives a really good impression already at the first contact with your customers and strengthens your own brand instead of marketing other companies such as Gmail, Hotmail or similar "loan  addresses". Create email addresses for your company's employees with your own domain name. E-mail addresses such as info@ yourdomain.com and firstname@yourdomain.com give your customers and suppliers a professional impression of your company. Via Servage, we provide a ...

Email verification is a feature found on almost every website with a login system. Some PHP frameworks come with a built-in email verification, but in case you are using one that does not, you will have to use some other ready-made solution like a library or to build it from scratch. Building the system by yourself also gives you more freedom and flexibility to customize it for your needs. The Process Explained Here is how email verification often works in PHP applications: When a user signs up, their data, such as email address, password and name, are inserted into a database. Along with this data, a unique email verification token is stored in ...

Have you ever wondered how big websites handle email sending within their PHP applications? Popular websites can send hundreds of thousands, even millions of emails to their users each month. Instead of sending so many emails locally on a web server, it is recommended to use an infrastructure that is built specifically for sending emails. Even if you are not operating or coding a large website yet, it is considered good practice to have a scalable email infrastructure from the beginning. In this article we will take a look at some alternatives to the traditional mail() function for building a reliable and cost-effective email infrastructure. Two types of email services There are many ...

The ability to send emails from within your web application is essential to almost any website or system. This rather trivial task is sometimes complicated by relatively unreliable libraries and unstable sending methods. If you have been around PHP for a while, you will probably remember the old days using the native "mail" function in PHP with Sendmail. Fortunately a lot has happened over the recent years, and great options for easy email sending (and receiving) have been well adopted in most frameworks. Laravel includes an email sending API built upon the common and very popular Swift Mailer library. It provides all the basic sending capabilities and is wrapped into a nice object ...

Staying in touch with your users is key to long-term success for any web project. The goal is to provide users a service which updates them on relevant information, while your real goal is usually to generate more traffic to your site - either for pageviews/ad displays or new orders/purchases. Sending the right newsletter to the right recipients can make a great difference, however, only if perceived well by your users. Simply spamming as many email addresses you can get your hands on will not help you. That tactic usually backfires and generates more trouble than good. Sending to the right recipients Generally speaking you should send newsletters to selected users instead of all ...

Email campaigns are essential parts of online marketing. If we take modular approaches to the customization of the email development by incorporating custom frameworks, we can increase our productivity by many times in our email campaigns. We have a number of options to do marketing of our products or mobile apps in the marketplaces. With new technologies and platforms coming regularly, we get many  opportunities to reach to the prospective customers. However, it is a proven fact that the age-old email marketing practices still yield high conversion-rates and should not be neglected. Optimising campaigns to meet the most effective email designs is still needed. Shooting large numbers of email makes little ...

We all know the irritation, the annoyance of getting spam mails, or even legit newsletters for something we signed up for by accident, or maybe even willing, but forgot or lost interest in. The unsubscribe process is often complicated, and sometimes doesn't even work. Thankfully unroll.me is trying to solve that problem by offering an "easy way out". Unroll.me is the free and easy way to end unwanted subscriptions and rollup the rest into an organized overview made just for you. Unsubscribe. It's Easy! Unroll.me makes managing your subscription list easy. Simply select the emails that are overloading your inbox, and we'll automatically unsubscribe you all at once.If you change your mind, ...

Last fall Servage introduced global server-side spam- and virus-filtering. The anti-spam functionality is powered by a customizable SpamAssassin system, which enables you to set an own set of rules for the handling of junk mail. The virus filter is powered by ClamAV which removes any email that includes malware. Since its introduction the system has identified hundreds of thousands of unsolicited mails being sent to email accounts hosted at Servage. In the meantime a number of customers have requested a filtering option to allow even more advanced and powerful rules for email-handling. With filters one could for example automatically collect messages from a specific sender, addressed to a specific recipient, containing certain words ...

Would you like to use your emails from multiple places, including your cell phone, and keeping the status of your messages synchronized? With IMAP you can read a message on one computer, answer it from your cell phone, and delete it from a web browser in an Internet cafe. IMAP makes it possible for you to access and synchronize all your emails across various devices. This is a little guide for you that do not know what IMAP is all about and how it can make your life a little easier. Email is a significant part of today's means of communication. Many people even rely on electronic messages as their primary way of staying in ...