Samuel Anyaele

Hello everybody, been a while, I have been in the trenches of the online world battling one daunting bug after another. this week’s bug fight has elicited me blogging again after several weeks. This week I am reminded again why I rarely use IE for any kind of online experience, except looking for Javascript errors and testing for absurd errors.

First it was an auto image upload script that I created last week, only to discover early this week that users uploading jpeg images via Internet Explorer are not able to view uploaded images (every other browser I tested was working well), and after several back and forth, troubleshooting here and there, I finally stumbled upon an article that explains that IE represents jpeg images with image/pjpeg instead of the accepted image/jpeg image type representation, I nearly lost my head in that one.

To add to this week’s bad experiences with Internet Explorer, I have a WordPress 3 multi-site that I integrated into an existing website, such that users can automatically be logged into WordPress from their account on the other website without having to login a second time.

I implemented a solution that works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera but not in Internet Explorer, I had to do two days of digging to discover the all important “P3P Privacy Policy” that assures Microsoft Internet Explorer that it is okay to allow a third party cookie. And eventually this line of code in my php application before creating the cookies solved the persistent problem

header(‘P3P:CP=”IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT”‘);

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2008/12/how-to-set-third-party-cookies-with-iframe.html

Debugging isn’t an easy job, and Microsoft never seems to make it easier. Sorry got to go, I have a mild headache, need to rest away some of this IE-induced stress. TTYL

Hurray!!! Been battling with a behemoth issue since yesterday, how to make my emails to show up in inbox, and not land in Yahoo! spam box.

We installed PHPList on our server, and after configuration and importing of the user email addresses, we decided to test the email sending service, with 10 emails.

However, while GMail and other other email clients were successfully receiving the emails, Yahoo kept sending the emails to the Spam folder.

The first troubleshooting we did was to check our mail spam score on http://www.contactology.com/check_mqs.php to ascertain that we are not flouting any spam rules (we actually had an all caps subject – which we immediately changed). Again we tried sending, but same result.

Next, we tried sending a simple hello message to a yahoo mail box, and the message was still marked as spam, we tried sending the email from another yahoo mail address, and it was successfully delivered to the inbox. Therefore we concluded that the problem was not the content of the mail, but either the email address we are using to send the mails or the domain itself from whence we are sending the mails.

Next, we tried sending the emails from another user on the same domain, with no success, mail was immediately sent to the spam folder, therefore we were fairly certain that the problem must be from the domain.

Therefore on speaking with a support person from our hosting company, we received the following helpful instructions:

Support: OK what you would need to do is setup SPF records from cpanel for the domain name that is being sent to spam. You can setup those records right from cpanel depending on the version that is running on your server.
Samuel Anyaele: SPF records, okay, will check that out, have not tried one of those before
Support: Yeah Yahoo, Hotmail and others alike require SPF records to be setup.
Support: You can also setup domain keys as well that will help.
Support: All of those can be found under the Email Authentication link in cpanel.
Support: They will help you setup the records easily.
Samuel Anyaele: will check right away
Support: Ok Samuel, anything else I can assist you with?

And that was how we solved our Yahoo mail problem, hope this is helpful to somebody, and it was really easy, all I had to do was click a couple of enable buttons, one for SPF and the other for Domain Keys.

Enjoy your day, and remember to smile.

SA.

I have been staring at the screen for several minute now, I don’t know where to start from, there is so much to tell, but I have never been great with written words (better with programming codes), but so much has really happened over the days.

The biggest is all the work that MyNigerianBlog.com requires, thank God we are launching tomorrow, right now I don’t know whether that is good news or bad news, already I am ‘walk-dozing’ due to lack of sleep. I hope I don’t ‘walk-sleep’ one of these days. That could be real dangerous oh! Anyway, I can’t wait to see what the response is going to be like for this unique one-of-a-kind service. Have you guys seen the Getting Started pages? Boy, did I labour on those!

Recently, I have been getting serious mails from all over the world, thanks to SEONigeria.com, and right now I don’t even know where to start from, I am currently forming ‘busy big man’, you know how big men make you wait indefinitely for response. Abeg make una forgive me oh, na stress cause am.

For those expecting me to write something technical, well I won’t disappoint you, was recently reminded of how I recovered data on a hard disk that was presumed dead, by freezing it. Yes, I actually wrapped it in a cellophane bag and froze it for God knows how long, and lo and behold, it came alive for several hours, enough for me to backup my stuffs. If you think I am lying, Google ‘Frozen hard disk’ (http://www.google.com.ng/search?q=frozen%20hard%20disk&hl=en)

And for those of you who want to manage space because this Standard pack is a miserly 10MB, you could trying linking to images hosted on another server, instead of uploading a fresh picture to save disk space (Like the frozen hard disk image above).

And some are surprised that I used a very unserious and old (2006) blog  for my example on importing from blogger (importing from blogger to wordpress), well for your information, I LOVE that blog, always reminds me of when I was Samuel the writer. LOL! Check out my old 2006 posts and tell me if i am not funny. Jajajajaja (I heard that is Hahahaha in spanish, duh)

Got to go y’all, serious work is calling. Laziness dey worry me well well, God help me .