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Transfer Horde emails to a new server

I use Horde as the primary webmail app for both myself and for many of the clients hosted at Dynamic. Occasionally it becomes necessary to move the emails saved on the server to a new server or email account. This can easily be done with the Linux/Unix scp (secure copy) command. Here’s how to do [...]

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Changing the name of Horde

If you use Horde 3 as the webmail client for your clients you may want to customize the name of the login page to something more friendly to your business. You can do so by editing the ‘registry.php’ file in your configuration directory (on most my servers located at /etc/psa-horde/horde/). Toward the bottom you will [...]

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Default Horde Theme

If you would like have a different default theme other than the ‘Blue and White’ theme that ships with Horde 3 you can easily do so by editing the prefs.php located in the Horde conf-directory (on most my servers it is located at /etc/psa-horde/horde/). About 2/3rds of the way down in the file you will [...]

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Flash Resources

When consulting with clients or conducting training sessions pertaining to Flash, I regularly refer back to the following websites as excellent resources. I highly recommend these to anyone interested in flash no matter what their experience level: www.gotoandlearn.com - Video tutorials of advanced Flash and related technologies by Lee Brimelow. www.flashkit.com - A open source flash community [...]

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Best Practices for Coding HTML Emails

If you are a web designer you know the pains of cross-browser coding. We currently have 3-4 popular browsers (IE6, IE7, FF, Safari) to keep in mind when creating new pages and each will interpret your code slightly different. This is the source of much hair pulling in the design community. However, shortly after delving [...]

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