How to access Bluehost email through your Gmail

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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPjmk-3tHvkOPImPyygJVYqX635Wf8kfG1eSJnjKv_POBWF-GQ3YqaQmhMkH-yAYGYbM0qWC8ETnMgjvlamHKVhbFVAsfDTmSSwfWFDSc7iazx2Rc8Z7c0_u-SR1QWePucmhHVUC-mWeu/s1600/how-to-check-bluehost-webmail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPjmk-3tHvkOPImPyygJVYqX635Wf8kfG1eSJnjKv_POBWF-GQ3YqaQmhMkH-yAYGYbM0qWC8ETnMgjvlamHKVhbFVAsfDTmSSwfWFDSc7iazx2Rc8Z7c0_u-SR1QWePucmhHVUC-mWeu/s640/how-to-check-bluehost-webmail.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />You can manage the email message for your domain account from this screen.<br /><br />However this is quite inconvenient:  the email account from your own domain is accessed through a different tool from your other email account(s), and it would be easy to forget to check it.<br /><br />A better approach is to integrate your domain email account with your regular Gmail account, or to check it through Thunderbird or some other email client.<br /><br /><h2>How to check your Bluehost provided own-domain email through your gmail account</h2><br />First, get the email account details<br /><ul><li>Log into www.bluehost.com   with your Bluehost account   (ie NOT your email account)</li><li>Click on the <b>Hosting</b> tab</li><li>Scroll down to the Email section and choose <b>Email Manager</b>.</li><li>In the <b>Email Accounts </b>tab, note the email address, and if necessary use the View Details button to re-set the email password   (you need to know this password later in the process)</li><li>Click on <b>Email-configuration</b>:   The screen that opens shows you the other details that you will need to give gmail.   Ideally leave this tab open while you set up gmail, so you can copy-and-paste from it.</li></ul><br />Now go into Gmail<br /><br /><ul><li>Click on the gearwheel and choose <b>Settings</b></li><li>Choose the <b>Accounts and Import</b> subtab</li><li>Scroll down to Check email from other accounts section, and choose <b>Add an email account</b></li><li>Enter the email address that you want to add</li><li>Choose <b>POP3 </b>/ Import emails from my other account</li><li>Use the details from the <b>Private (with SSL) </b>section of the Bluehost screen to fill in the account details:  the user-name should be the same as the email-address that you are adding.   Notice that the first screen is about incoming email, so you need to use the inward settings (eg port 995 for SSL)</li><li>On the next screen, choose <b>Yes, I want to be able to send mail as</b></li><li>Enter the <b>Name </b>that you want people who get emails from this account to see.</li><li>Untick <b>Treat as an Alias</b> (mostly your'll want to untick this if you are wanting emails from your Bluehost-provided email account to be separate from your personal Gmail account - read more about the options <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/1710338?ctx=gmail&hl=en-GB&authuser=0&visit_id=636952785121119035-1809919622&rd=1">here</a>)</li><li>Fill in the outgoing mail options with the details you got from Bluehost: you need to use <b>SSL</b>, not TSL as recommended, and again the user-name is the email address.</li></ul><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWxPTZyw6vD6mp4XFB6MpI6diAffbDz9aHiLqoqBOUNCm9K2CRHuZNJT_rrDLgD5oy3_F72aDBjJdEvTJL9t4Bu6Svg1_7xoTn0PM1MYXKXgzjpuFUg9B3tRS1WKwOr2AaGHNREvakoH-b/s1600/email-setup-for-checking-bluehost-account-inside-my-own-gmail-account.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="821" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWxPTZyw6vD6mp4XFB6MpI6diAffbDz9aHiLqoqBOUNCm9K2CRHuZNJT_rrDLgD5oy3_F72aDBjJdEvTJL9t4Bu6Svg1_7xoTn0PM1MYXKXgzjpuFUg9B3tRS1WKwOr2AaGHNREvakoH-b/s640/email-setup-for-checking-bluehost-account-inside-my-own-gmail-account.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Job done.   If all the settings are correct, you should not be able to see messages sent to your professional / Blue-host provided domain account inside your gmail account, and you should be able to use the Send-as feature in Gmail to send messages that 100% appear to have come from your Blue-host provided domain account.<br /><br />Also, there should be enough information here for your to see how you can configure other email clients (I use Thunderbird) with your Bluehost-hosted email account.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Related Articles</h2>There are no related articles for this topic.

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Understanding the Follow-by-Email gadget and Feedburner

<b>The Follow-by-email gadget uses Feedburner's email-subscription service.   It's very easy to add to your blog, but there are some things that you need to think about if you are using it to deliver blog-posts to your followers by email.</b><br /><b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpv4rtqb-cbakrO15oQhdvUIVij2T-gHJOz0NAQYJRUjNQL4-JhL5HKKT4os1UpydjgYoMQKhyphenhyphenL3AWhEKH1vVbGa0YAR8SFyZJV_n7RPUDqlXxo4yIX-hRTRjP-4BJRdlEVTlR1ye9E4hT/s1600/follow-by-email-gadget-and-feedburner-subscription-service-for-blogger-blogs.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1580" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpv4rtqb-cbakrO15oQhdvUIVij2T-gHJOz0NAQYJRUjNQL4-JhL5HKKT4os1UpydjgYoMQKhyphenhyphenL3AWhEKH1vVbGa0YAR8SFyZJV_n7RPUDqlXxo4yIX-hRTRjP-4BJRdlEVTlR1ye9E4hT/s320/follow-by-email-gadget-and-feedburner-subscription-service-for-blogger-blogs.png" width="320" /></a></div>The Follow-by-Email gadget is a very <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/follow-by-email-gadget-easy-way-to-add.html">simple way to give your readers access to blog-updates by email:</a> it delivers a message in their inbox every day that you post.<br /><br />But to decide if it's a good thing to use, to get good value from it, and to troubleshoot any problems, you need to understand a little more about how it works.<br /><br />And, since it uses Feedburner, this means understanding how Feedburner works, too.<br /><br /><br /><h2>What is Feedburner</h2>The Follow by Email gadget uses a product called Feedburner to manage the list of people who have followed, ie subscribed to your blog.  <br /><br />Feedburner was originally a tool to enhance the RSS subscriptions that website-owners delivered - see <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">Why RSS / Subscribe to Posts is important for your blog</a>  for info about RSS.   Very roughly speaking, every time a website publishes a new item, Feedburner adds that item to a "feed" or summary of the site, and tells all the subscribers about it, without the subscribers having to visit the website.<br /><br />One option that Feedburner added was subscribe-by-email:  website owners who use Feedburner for this have to turn the service on, and then put "something" on their website that offers the service to people who want to get emailed updates.   To start with, Feedburner just kept a list of emails addresses, but now it's more sophisticated:   it checks with addresses that they really do want to be subscribed before adding them to the list, and offers an un-subscribe option with each subscription email.<br /><br />Adding the follow-by-email option to your blog sets this up for you.   It:<br /><br /><ul><li>Sets up a feed, </li><li>Turns the email service "on", and </li><li>Puts an email--address request box onto your blog.   </li></ul><br /><br /><br /><h2>What is set up when you add the follow-by-email gadget</h2>The Follow-by-email gadget can be added to your blog <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">the same way you would add any other gadget</a>.   Doing this this means that, you are logged in to a <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-google-accounts.html">Google account</a> at the time.<br /><br />If that Google account <b>already owns an entry</b> (ie a "feed") in Feedburner for the blog you're adding the gadget to, then the gadget just uses this feed.<br /><br />But if the Google account <b>doesn't currently have an entry</b> from the blog, then a new feed is created, and the email service is turned on for it.:<br /><ul><li>The Feed Title is based on the blog's name.  </li><li>The feed address appears to be fairly random (eg I created one for a blog called "Another test blog", and the feed name is    <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/meaUW">http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/meaUW</a> </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipGARTUlWhL94jjawnlPNLBbSF6GFdlRIUlraMFgNsgwpu2zunVDMPFdO14WtJcFy-2iaImWYXKx5IScGoUwmeTy9A5JLtpWBWAf-pPfJbd9BmK2jTtoAjrIPUeiwBuoOYsCXdDYOVhaM/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipGARTUlWhL94jjawnlPNLBbSF6GFdlRIUlraMFgNsgwpu2zunVDMPFdO14WtJcFy-2iaImWYXKx5IScGoUwmeTy9A5JLtpWBWAf-pPfJbd9BmK2jTtoAjrIPUeiwBuoOYsCXdDYOVhaM/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block; text-align:center;" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4862549906412680" data-ad-slot="3409801940"></ins><br /><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /><h2>Advantages of the Follow-by-email gadget</h2>This gadget makes it a lot easier to offer a follow-by-email option:  you don't have to set up the feed yourself, or use a HTML-gadget to provide a subscribe-by-email form.<br /><br />And because it uses Feedburner, you have full access to Feedburner's statistics, and a number of other things that are included in Feedburner's features, including:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/customising-feedburners-email.html">Customizing the "click the link to subscribe" message</a>, </li><li><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-list-of-people-who-have-asked.html">Getting a list of all your email subscribers</a> (verified and unverified), and </li><li>Configuring the look-and-feel (including timing and from-address) of the daily email to your follow-by-emailers. </li></ul><div><br /></div><h2>Disadvantages of the Follow-by-email gadget</h2>There are some disadvantages of both the gadget, and the approach that Blogger has used to implement it:<br /><ul><li>Google / Blogger have mixed up the words "subscribers" and "followers".  It used to be that subscribers used RSS gadgets (from Feedburner or other feed-providers), and followers used Blogger's own following-tools.   But this new gadget is called "follow-by-email", and it's possible that mixing up the ideas will make some people very confused.</li></ul><ul><li>Using the gadget, you have <b>very little control over the look and feel</b> of the  follow-by-email option on your blog.   <br /><br />Compare this to the "Get updates by email" option which is in the top of the sidebar on this blog:  I've put a lot of effort into getting the wording "just right" so potential subscribers know that they will be getting a please-confirm email.   This on-screen wording means that even if they don't act on the email immediately, they get another reminder about if they come back to the blog again in the future.</li><li>You have no control over the message that potential follow-by-emailers are shown to tell them to verify their subscription.  It looks like this<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzq84ls9-jyShK-9FwyERqLvibBNiftZUhBv3CjputcKBmbA1w_cVDJE1sjKlj0UEX3KfPTUGMPgri6r9umm_G3Nl-YNoixFI3Bm9dLuYyfpOIaKumGGHpWKgrU_cer00kxJEALkWkG77/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzq84ls9-jyShK-9FwyERqLvibBNiftZUhBv3CjputcKBmbA1w_cVDJE1sjKlj0UEX3KfPTUGMPgri6r9umm_G3Nl-YNoixFI3Bm9dLuYyfpOIaKumGGHpWKgrU_cer00kxJEALkWkG77/" width="400"></a></div><br />While this message is fine for the tech-minded people who are likely subscribe to an RSS feed, it will probably bring a <i><b>glazed look</b></i> to those of your visitors who need a very simple subscribe-by-email option!   </li></ul><ul><li>People who follow your blog by email will not be included in your Followers gadget or count - though you can <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/encourage-new-subscribers-by-enabling.html">use the Feedcount button to show how many subscribers your blog has</a>.   </li></ul><ul><li>People who subscribe to your blog by email <b>don't see any of the widgets</b> on your blog, or any advertisements.   (Unlike regular RSS-feed subscribers for whom you can set up AdSense for feeds).  Despite the options mentioned above, ou have very little control over how they see your messages, especially if they happen to be using email software that shows your messages in plain text.</li></ul><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/customising-feedburners-email.html">Customizing the "click the link to subscribe" message</a><br />  <br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-list-of-people-who-have-asked.html">Getting a list of all your email subscribers</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">Why RSS / Subscribe to Posts is important for your blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/follow-by-email-gadget-easy-way-to-add.html">The Follow-by-Email gadget:  a very simple way to give your readers access to blog-updates by email</a>

Understanding the Follow-by-Email gadget and Feedburner

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How to receive emails from website using contact forms?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJbOFS2FCU6nhp93YQJcHU-_oubH6Xj0VubcslZla5KRoQ_cGaf_ndQ6n3p4iVUzbr4LMbYh6hoqQPTbp1cOVGN3bwMJEwybl33H9ffRPK9XfcOqqhD6AZHVsQIR3WG1frjvabL2KetY/s1600/access+contact+form+email+from+website.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="616" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJbOFS2FCU6nhp93YQJcHU-_oubH6Xj0VubcslZla5KRoQ_cGaf_ndQ6n3p4iVUzbr4LMbYh6hoqQPTbp1cOVGN3bwMJEwybl33H9ffRPK9XfcOqqhD6AZHVsQIR3WG1frjvabL2KetY/s400/access+contact+form+email+from+website.PNG" width="400"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Contact Forms are great to let website visitors contact you for any queries or for specific purpose. Contact Forms are found on most websites nowadays. When we build a website, we usually include a “Contact form" on the website for users to contact us. Once we buy a domain and hosting services from a service provider to host the website, we also usually get email address along with it. And it looks professional to have emails with the website domain name instead of using internet email such as gmail or Yahoo mail. In this post, we shall see how to setup Contact Form and how to receive emails sent from the website.<br></div></div><a href="https://techubber.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-to-setup-contact-form-and-ways-to-receive-emails-from-website.html#more">Read more »</a>

How to receive emails from website using contact forms?

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How To Sync Google Calendar with Windows Calendar and also Gmail With Windows Calendar App on Windwos 10?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNi8gjO10ISXKd7F-9lDW_BXWI0gyqSAyNHbzx3eTnzf4CaAYT9NqCQkEl65i0uB2h8HM6udyYCkXDsJKMu3a7RxlUh08a-ioQp1JhQSRRK_2QNfuCJK9hmYpNA1SlzSoYZkwA6QDcdU/s1600/How+To+Sync+Google+Calendar+with+Windows+Calendar+and+also+Gmail+With+Windows+Calendar+App+on+Windwos+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="How To Sync Google Calendar with Windows Calendar and also Gmail With Windows Calendar App on Windwos 10" border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNi8gjO10ISXKd7F-9lDW_BXWI0gyqSAyNHbzx3eTnzf4CaAYT9NqCQkEl65i0uB2h8HM6udyYCkXDsJKMu3a7RxlUh08a-ioQp1JhQSRRK_2QNfuCJK9hmYpNA1SlzSoYZkwA6QDcdU/s400/How+To+Sync+Google+Calendar+with+Windows+Calendar+and+also+Gmail+With+Windows+Calendar+App+on+Windwos+10.jpg" title="How To Sync Google Calendar with Windows Calendar and also Gmail With Windows Calendar App on Windwos 10" width="400"></a></div>In this post, we'll discuss how to sync Google calendar with Windows 10 calendar app. Also in the same process, we shall also see how to sync Gmail with Windows Mail app in Windows 10.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why sync Gmail and Google Calendar with Windows 10 calendar and Mail app?</b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div><a href="https://techubber.blogspot.com/2016/11/how-to-sync-google-calendar-gmail-contacts-with-windows10-mail-calendar.html#more">Read more »</a>

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Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyk7yIjWJl2wIW4Pj60OLWNaccVY2tvwKdJroacAyCdC-OkEsdeoaV9DrGiYxln6OBJzSwm2yyPMLiPNIX2MoJ8_qJMv1zikLhAEjzxLiFG-bS2qtXLGjCyXvD2_tS8fpeaO-izAwL34U/s1600/osclass_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="1523" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyk7yIjWJl2wIW4Pj60OLWNaccVY2tvwKdJroacAyCdC-OkEsdeoaV9DrGiYxln6OBJzSwm2yyPMLiPNIX2MoJ8_qJMv1zikLhAEjzxLiFG-bS2qtXLGjCyXvD2_tS8fpeaO-izAwL34U/s640/osclass_logo.png" width="640"></a></div><br><div style="text-align: justify;">Email services are required by almost every website that need to communicate with users over email even for basic things like emails to users after account creation for activation link, forgot password and contact forms etc. OSCLASS also need email for the above purposes. Configuring Osclass to use  mail server is quite easy as OSCLASS includes a pretty simple to understand form for configuring email. In this post, we shall see how to configure OSCLASS mail server for sending emails from the OSCLASS website.</div><br><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration</b></span><br></div><a href="https://techubber.blogspot.com/2016/11/osclass-mail-server-configuration-email-setup-settings-port-hostname.html#more">Read more »</a>

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Best of e-mail clients alternative to Outlook: eM Client: setup Yahoo or Gmail or others email accounts with eM Client

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="justify"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6INYU3k5wHamnuFufynv20FytutT7tirJu6Gr4TZQK3Lsjl0VSQS9hFtnEFp6eF0cFgpPPONuUlOdJUc4HrzmVaFTTA1d2lKEvQ6Eq-swBJooR2vOGg5lBsPfvqkyylQFh911Ke_6SU/s1600/Best+of+e-mail+clients+alternative+to+Outlook+eM+Client.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Best of e-mail clients alternative to Outlook eM Client" border="0" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6INYU3k5wHamnuFufynv20FytutT7tirJu6Gr4TZQK3Lsjl0VSQS9hFtnEFp6eF0cFgpPPONuUlOdJUc4HrzmVaFTTA1d2lKEvQ6Eq-swBJooR2vOGg5lBsPfvqkyylQFh911Ke_6SU/s640/Best+of+e-mail+clients+alternative+to+Outlook+eM+Client.jpg" title="Best of e-mail clients alternative to Outlook eM Client" width="640"></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking for a good email client? There are plenty of choices out there, but before you decide, choose a good one. Of course, you might want to try a few and check out their features and move on to the next if you got time to experiment.  The best use of e-mail clients is access to previous(already synced) emails offline. You don’t need to go online every time to check previous emails. Most of us who use emails have used Outlook I suppose. It is “the-must-have” email client in corporate offices. But for home use, if you don't like to use Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird is also a good email client replacement for Microsoft Outlook. If you are interested in Thunderbird, find previous posts here.</span></span></div><h5 align="justify"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">eM Client: Probably one of the best email client out there.</span></span></h5></div><a href="https://techubber.blogspot.com/2016/09/best-of-email-clients-alternative-to-outlook-emclient.html#more">Read more »</a>

Best of e-mail clients alternative to Outlook: eM Client: setup Yahoo or Gmail or others email accounts with eM Client

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mail2Post: How to update your blog by email, instead of using Blogger

<b>Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors make blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you need to do is set it up, and write posts using your regular email tools.</b><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>Mail2Post and Blogger</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE3VeJLeQTUdTI0xtczsitRwWvkwxoPbsDqvxTSYFYsdZVAWewI8fUQgSfgJswx1YwrRK0jF46pS0QjqQIQ8v86bZdUfOWIZR6cNim1nXIctNcpOwS-j4QA-5nEOA4t2WiIonxOdBlrnw8/s128/Nuvola-like_email_internet.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE3VeJLeQTUdTI0xtczsitRwWvkwxoPbsDqvxTSYFYsdZVAWewI8fUQgSfgJswx1YwrRK0jF46pS0QjqQIQ8v86bZdUfOWIZR6cNim1nXIctNcpOwS-j4QA-5nEOA4t2WiIonxOdBlrnw8/s1600/Nuvola-like_email_internet.PNG" /></a></div>The mail2Post feature, sometimes known as Post-to-profile, is a way of putting content on your blog without using the full Blogger software for writing the post. <br /><br />It's not quite as good as using Blogger itself - there are a few features missing - but it is good enough in many situations.<br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><br /><h2>How to set up mail2Post</h2>Log in to Blogger with the <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-google-accounts.html" target="">Google account</a> that you want to have mail2Post rights to your blog:  this account needs to already be <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/making-someone-author-on-your-blog.html">set up as an author</a> for the the blog.<br /><br />Go to<br /><ul><li>The <b>Settings </b>tab - if you are logged on with an author account, or</li><li>The <b>Settings > </b><b>Email </b>tab if you are using an administrator account   </li></ul><br />Beside <b>Posting using email</b>, there is a place where you can enter some "secretWords", to make up an email address that you can use to post to your blog.<br /><br /><b>Enter</b> some suitable words:  make sure it's <b>not too easy to guess</b> (your surname would not be a good choice!), so that spammers cannot get into it:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUtaaVvUvZK_ZfcrJbk_0-zKNxREkBOtrNddFvLOtTphaSUTpfss4hWS058E9xZzPQL-ye-41OOYTAmEVsCIGGMVDSm7xwiZ8p8e2fZhKDjBwisFd9RUe1WBZvNRCaYxHGKf-bHNTdlC0/s1600-h/Email-posting.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUtaaVvUvZK_ZfcrJbk_0-zKNxREkBOtrNddFvLOtTphaSUTpfss4hWS058E9xZzPQL-ye-41OOYTAmEVsCIGGMVDSm7xwiZ8p8e2fZhKDjBwisFd9RUe1WBZvNRCaYxHGKf-bHNTdlC0/s640/Email-posting.bmp" width="90%" /></a></div><br />Choose either to<b> publish emailed updates</b> as soon as they arrive, or to <b>save email as drafts</b> so that you,  or <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/setting-up-new-administrator-for-your.html">another administrator</a>, can review them before posting. <br /><br /><b>Note down </b>the full email address, ie   NAME.your-secret-words@blogger.com   (you will need this later - and unfortunately because of the way it's displayed, it is not easy to copy-and-paste the value).<br /><div><br /><div>Click <b>Save Settings</b>.<br /><br /><br />Job Done!   Your blog is now set up so that posts can be created by being emailed to it, instead of requiring someone to use the Blogger software to write each post.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Using the mail2Post address</h2>Once mail2Post is set up, anyone who <b>sends an email message to the email address you copied</b> can post to your blog, with what ever restrictions you set.<br /><br />You <b><i>might</i></b> put message on your blog saying<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "send contributions to YOURNAME.YOURSECRETWORDS@blogger.com"</blockquote>But be aware that this could generate a lot of spam.   And in the worse case, the spam could get your blog deleted for breaking Blogger's terms and conditions.<br /><br />Alternatively, you might just <b>tell the address to selected people</b> - or perhaps even just use it yourself.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How is a Blogger Post made from an email message</h2>When a message is sent to your mail2Post address:<br /><ul><li>The <b>subject-line</b> of your email message becomes the <b>Post-title</b></li><li>The body of the <b>email message</b> becomes the <b>body</b> of the post</li><li><i>I think:</i>  If you automatically publish emailed posts, then the <b>post date-and-time</b> is the moment at which Blogger's servers received the incoming email message - expressed in Blogger's default time zone (PST OR PDT, I think).</li><li><b>No labels</b> are applied to the post</li><li>The <b>post-author</b> is the <b>profile name of the blog-author</b> who set up the mail2Post address.</li></ul><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Pictures and Videos</span></b><br />People have reported various results when they include images and videos inside messages sent via mail2Post.   Personally, I have tested:<br /><ul><li>An<b> attached picture</b> - posted ok, the image is show before all the text from the body of the email message</li><li>An <b>attached video</b> file (4meg) - posted ok with the video appearing to be above the text from the email message</li><li>An <b>in-line photo</b> - worked perfectly, the picture is placed in the post in the same position (relative to the text) that it was in the original email.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtH5EMXmxauchPJRQowKhyphenhyphen0MOYIx3ubsY1v6uHIz0iiKFROCKbbL6bHb8uxyIFa7EoBuBFqyfwaDWvIMmoKQocv86sMY2wFncKZvA3QO1gYep450my-Br1QuGQ2tcrW4g0C1RASYxTtTV7/s373/photo-attached-blogger-mail2post-result.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtH5EMXmxauchPJRQowKhyphenhyphen0MOYIx3ubsY1v6uHIz0iiKFROCKbbL6bHb8uxyIFa7EoBuBFqyfwaDWvIMmoKQocv86sMY2wFncKZvA3QO1gYep450my-Br1QuGQ2tcrW4g0C1RASYxTtTV7/s640/photo-attached-blogger-mail2post-result.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />I suspect that the results  depend on they type of picture, the email client you are using, and the message format settings.   My testing was with Mozilla Thunderbird, which has a particular way of thinking about "attachments", slightly different from other email systems that I have used (eg Microsoft Outlook).<br /><br />Probably the only way to discover how photos are handled when you use your email to send them is to<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/making-test-blog-for-planning-template.html"> set up a test-blog</a> and<b> experiment with different options</b>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>What your readers see</h2>People who read your blog in a web-browser see mail2Post entries just like any other posts.   If your blog displays the poster's name, then mail2Post entries have the name of the blog-author who set up the mail2Post address.<br /><br />As mentioned before, the positioning of pictures and videos may not always be as good:  attached pictures, in particular, may be shown as the very stop of the post.<br /><br />Apart from that, there is nothing to show visitors that the post was created using email - in either the post or in the <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">blog's RSS feed</a>.<br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/making-someone-author-on-your-blog.html">Giving someone write access (ie author permissions) to your blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/setting-up-new-administrator-for-your.html">Setting up a blog administrator</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-google-accounts.html">Understanding Google accounts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/making-test-blog-for-planning-template.html">Setting up a test-blog to try things out in private</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">RSS, and why it matters for your blog</a></div></div>

mail2Post: How to update your blog by email, instead of using Blogger

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The "follow by email" gadget: an easy way to add an email subscription to your blog

<b>Blogger have made it very simple to offer an email-subscription to your blog, with the "Follow by Email" gadget.  This article describes adding it to your blog, and how it works for your readers.</b> <br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtK3TB1xfmbW3JiukPuRIz-hxiox9KM7CoI-LR6ossixWgVQ38tncy4E4dnsV4eH3vMPE8WdcJMjGl6jtC2AaIzd9IzCsF1Qvdx527NepA0DrZLTiInHYbPClOIEl44fnQivDlUI0_Y-WU/s446/blogger-follow-by-email-option-for-subscription.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtK3TB1xfmbW3JiukPuRIz-hxiox9KM7CoI-LR6ossixWgVQ38tncy4E4dnsV4eH3vMPE8WdcJMjGl6jtC2AaIzd9IzCsF1Qvdx527NepA0DrZLTiInHYbPClOIEl44fnQivDlUI0_Y-WU/s320/blogger-follow-by-email-option-for-subscription.png" width="320" /></a></div>Previously, I've explained <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">why RSS is important for your blog</a>, and<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/11/adding-subscribe-by-email-option-using.html"> how to give your blog a subscribe by email option using Feedburner</a>.<br /><br />The Follow by Email gadget that Blogger provide makes this even easier:  you can add an email subscription option to your blog by following these steps:<br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>How to add the Follow by Email Gadget</h2><ol><li><b>Log in to Blogger</b><br />Use a Google account with admin rights to the blog, and which you want to use to get statistics about your email subscribers.</li><li>Go to the <b>Design</b> tab</li><li>Select <b>Add a Gadget</b> in the area where you want to put the email subscription option</li><li>Choose <b>Follow by Email</b> (it's current at the top of the list)</li><li><b>Enter the title</b> that you want displayed on your blog (initially it's "Follow by email")</li><li>Press <b>Save</b>.</li></ol>This puts the gadget onto your blog.  But there are two more things that you should do:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/turning-rss-feed-off-or-on-again.html"><b>Check </b>that your blog's RSS feed is enabled</a><b>: </b>it should be either "Full" or "Until Jump Break", not "None".  You <b>need</b> to do this because the Follow-by-email tool will only send out emails if your feed is turned on.   </li></ul><ul><li><b>Subscribe to it yourself</b>- by entering your own email.  <br />This isn't absolutely essential - the tool works even if you're not signed up to it.   But it's a <b>good idea</b> to try to see your blog from the reader's perspective.   <br />And some items in your posts (eg <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/picasa-blogger-part-4-putting-slideshow.html">slideshows</a> or <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/showing-powerpoint-presentation-in-your.html">PowerPoint presentations</a>) may not work as expected in the emailed version - and you won't know about it unless you're getting the emails.</li></ul><br /><h2>What your readers see:</h2><h3>On Your Blog:</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_lv0tJ7MRrY0t-HuxRhWdI6r8IReEm4H3xQgkmFYwYeKtPW2EOejyqAk2UdKFBEKhpicZl1KagNY7VForVFfCRvdvMkyy9ZyqrGt73VS2K3X6pW2rx3ybo8e7_RXUCSGVfoO_feYAeP3/" width="200" /> </a></div>The Follow by Email gadget looks like this:<br /><br />The title was set when you were adding the gadget:  you can change it by <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">editing the gadget</a> in the usual way.<br /><br />The background colour, button colour, title underline and font are based on <i><b>the settings for your theme</b></i>:  you can only control them by editing the gadget colours in your theme. <br /><br />You cannot put text immediately before our after the place where people can enter an email address:   though you could put a text-gadget before or after the Follow-by-email gadget. <br /><br /><br /><h3>When they enter an email address:</h3>When your visitor enters an email address and presses Submit, a new window opens:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8226995528209216388&postID=9190165755886234457" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 10px;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4glAUFD4L-3UcxVCsDxtqV-dFkVA4v2KHJppNunByh9ZSDPx7xkC_W5GvVaxgbOCCOKI3h5lPAdQKXNHm-21oQ9XamLx6A08wZlDZTcvf2Ixl2gWR5V02tnksymk_QOxXK4WTGsDtuuXi/" width="320" /></a></div><br />This window:<br /><ul><li><b>Welcomes</b> them to Feedburner</li><li>Acknowledges <b>their Google account</b>, if they are logged in at the time - remember, not all your visitors will be Google users</li><li><b>Tells them about the feed</b> that they are asking to subscribe to</li><li><b>Warns them that a confirmation message</b> will be sent to the email address they entered  <br /><i>"will receive a verification message once you submit this form"</i> and that <i>"FeedBurner activates your subscription to ... once you respond to this verification message"</i> </li><li>Asks them to <b>solve a text-catpcha</b> puzzle, to prove it's a real person (not a computer) setting up the subscription.</li></ul>The colours, design and content of this window are totally controlled by Feedburner.  You can't influence them in any way.<br /><br />After the anti-spam-test is successfully completed, a second screen opens.   This tells the reader that<br /><blockquote><b><i>Your request has been accepted!</i> </b><i>Please check your inbox for a verification message from “FeedBurner Email Subscriptions”, the service that delivers email subscriptions for <<your-blog-name>>. You will need to click a link listed in this message to activate your subscription. If you dont see a confirmation e-mail in a reasonable amount of time please check your bulk/spam folder.</i></blockquote>Again, you have no control over the color, format or placement of this window, it is totally up to Feedburner.    You also don't control the message text, which many people are likely to ignore.<br /><br /><br /><h3>In their email in-box, today:</h3>Your potential subscriber gets an email from Feedburner, usually within 2-10 minutes, asking them to click a link to complete the subscription process.<br /><ul><li>If they <b>click the link</b>, they become a verified subscriber.</li></ul><ul><li>If they <b>don't</b> click the link, then they stay on the subscribers list as <b>unverified</b>.</li></ul>You can <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/customising-feedburners-email.html">customize the "click the link to subscribe" message</a>, using some fairly simply settings in Feedburner.   <br /><br /><br /><h3>In their email in-box, when you post:</h3>On <b>days when you have posted</b> to your blog, every verified subscriber is sent one email message, with all your posts during the day.<br /><br />The message may include the full post or just a summary, depending on what settings you have for your blog's RSS feed  (Settings > Site Feed > Blog Posts feed).<br /><br />Feedburner provides a number of options for controling how this email looks, and when it is sent:  see the Publicize > Email Subscriptions > Email branding tab in Feedburner for these.    (full article coming soon).<br /><br /><br /><h2>More information about the gadget:</h2>This new gadget has been widely requested, and is an exciting addition to Blogger.  But there are some challenges with it, which are discussed in <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-follow-by-email-gadget.html">Understanding the Follow-by-Email gadget</a>.<br /><br />You can get <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2011/01/getting-list-of-people-who-have-asked.html">a list of the people who have signed up to receive your blog-posts by email</a> - be aware that this is all people who have subscribed, not just ones who used the widget.<br /><br /><br /><h2>What happens if you delete the widget</h2>Even if the follow-by-email gadget is deleted from your blog (by accident or deliberately), the Feedburner subscription that it created, and the list of people who have subscribed, is still kept in Feedburner.<br /><br />However to add the gadget to your blog again, you need to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/adding-rss-feed-icon-to-your-blog-using.html">use Feedburner's gadget tool</a> to make sure that you access the feed that you created when you added the gadget the first time around.<br /><br />(Thanks to reader <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01573763482137647524" target="_blank">+Mary Bostow</a> whose question got me thinking about this.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles: </h2><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-rss-subscribe-to-posts-is-important.html">Why RSS is important for your blog</a>,<br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2011/01/getting-list-of-people-who-have-asked.html">How to get a list of people who are subscribed to your blog by email</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/11/adding-subscribe-by-email-option-using.html">An alternative to "Follow-by-email":  giving your blog a subscribe by email option using Feedburner</a>. <br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/03/customising-feedburners-email.html">Customizing Feedburners verification message</a>

The "follow by email" gadget: an easy way to add an email subscription to your blog

Blogger have made it very simple to offer an email-subscription to your blog, with the "Follow by Email" gadget.  This article des...

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The "Single-Slash Double-Dot" rule for identifying spam links in phishing emails

<b>This article is about email phishing, and spam-links in emails: how you can recognize them and what to do about them.</b> <br /><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2>Understanding Spam vs Phishing</h2><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UO82EKSrvEohnvUiyZaMS3eFGxUkUmfoN6DdXLtQqOItrGREuUVJOes8E87-DvZcoeghZlvcY1pHlp3TvzaONBdoiVvLS-98PdtXHb213-bhwMb-wcPIJombjncCVDnwMiy3nhNuTx5L/s436/spam-emails-phish-unwary-bloggers-unless-they-protect-themselves.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UO82EKSrvEohnvUiyZaMS3eFGxUkUmfoN6DdXLtQqOItrGREuUVJOes8E87-DvZcoeghZlvcY1pHlp3TvzaONBdoiVvLS-98PdtXHb213-bhwMb-wcPIJombjncCVDnwMiy3nhNuTx5L/s320/spam-emails-phish-unwary-bloggers-unless-they-protect-themselves.png" width="200" /></a><br />Most people know what regular spam is. <b>Phishing</b> is a more sophisticated type of spam, which combines information that the spammer knows (or guesses) with conventional spam techniques. Often phishing emails are addressed directly to you, and offer a "product" or "service" that you might realistically want. For example, they may offer to fix a security problem with your on-line banking (just as soon as you have gone to their website and given them your real on-line banking details).<br /><br />Bloggers are particularly susceptible to phishing emails, because we write websites where we share information about ourselves. For example, anyone who reads <a href="http://www.blogger-hints-and-tips/">Blogger-hints-and-tips</a> should have no trouble guessing that I use both <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/09/blogger-amazon-integration-is-finished.html">Amazon Associates</a> and <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/02/chitika-overview.html">Chitika</a>, and that I have a domain hosted with <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/11/add-2nd-cname-for-domaindiscount24.html">DomainDiscount24</a>.  It's not much harder to work out that I'm interested in folk-music, and know a lot about public transport in my city. And even though I don't <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/07/putting-email-links-into-your-blog.html">display my email address on the blog</a>, it isn't that hard to guess from some of the screen-shots I use, or by <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/adding-rss-feed-icon-to-your-blog-using.html">subscribing to my RSS feed</a>.    And you might be even more vulnerable if you <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-facebook-personal-account-badget.html">link your blog to your Facebook profile instead of a Page.</a><br /><br /><br /><h2>Protecting yourself from Phishers</h2>ISPs and email services detect and delete most regular spam emails before they are delivered. But this is harder to do with phishing emails, because they often look genuine. So <b>you need to protect yourself against phishing</b>.<br /><br />The best way to do this is to be <b>curious-and-cautious</b> about any email you receive. There are lots of suggestions below about what this means, and what characteristics to look for. None of them can give a 100% certain answer about whether a message or offer is dodgy. But being aware of the sort of things you need to check, and in particular the "single-slash-double-dot" rule for checking links, is a an excellent start.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to spot phishing emails</h2>An email message may be a phishing attempt if <b>some</b> of the following are true:<br /><ul><li>You were not expecting the message, or any contact from the organisation it apparently comes from. </li></ul><ul><li>You've never heard of the organisation or company that it comes from - or you don't have any dealings with them.<br />(That said, sometimes unknown organisations do contact you - try to establish their legitimate website or phone number from another source, to check if they're "for real" or not).<br /></li></ul><ul><li>The message asks you to confirm account details by giving some personal information: no reputable company will ever want you to do this by email. Intelligent reputable companies will not expect you to do so by clicking on links in their website. </li></ul><ul><li>The message tries to make you respond quickly, to stop something bad from happening. (Basically, they're trying to stop you from thinking about the message before you respond to it.) </li></ul><ul><li>An email doesn't have your address in the To field - or it has your address and many others which you don't know. </li></ul><ul><li>The message-body doesn't start with your name (eg if it says "Dear Customer" instead of "Dear Joe Soap") </li></ul><ul><li>The from address, or the name as the bottom of the message (like the "signature" in a paper-based letter) is missing, or seems strange given where the message came from. </li></ul><ul><li>Bad spelling. Bad grammar. Poor formatting. Odd looking graphics / pictures / logos. Strange sentence structures (either to try to trick you, or because the author doesn't know your language well). </li></ul><br />None of those features <b>guarantee</b> that a message is dodgy. But any of them should be enough to make you a little suspicious.<br /><br />But there are some features that are more of a give-away:<br /><ul><li>The URL / hyperlink in the message isn't the right one for the company (eg it's from www.ebay.org instead of www.ebay.com) </li></ul><ul><li>The message contains a link which doesn't match the website show when you hover the mouse over it eg <a href="http://www.blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/">www.amazon.com</a> - notice that it's linked back to Blogger-HAT instead of to the real Amazon.<br />NB Even if a link looks like a link, ALWAYS check where it goes to by hovering your mouse over and seeing what the "tool tip" text is.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>The message uses an URL shortening service (eg tinyurl.com, bit.ly, goo.gl) which stops you from checking where the link really goes.<br />(This is a good reason why you shouldn't use link shortening services yourself:  they make it look like you have something to hide. Whenever I tweet about a post, I always put in the full URL: even though Twitter doesn't display all the characters in the message, they are available to anyone who hovers over the link).<br /></li></ul><br /><br /><h2>A simple rule for evaluating links:</h2>The last three points are the most helpful - but they rely on you being able to <b>look at a website-link and know if it's spammy or not</b>.<br /><br />And spammers know that it's easy to confuse people by showing them long, complicated real links, that superficially look like real ones.  For example, consider<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>www.cnn.com.newslist.2013-01.headlines.trouble.com/headline-listing/xx03/index.html</i></blockquote>Lots of people will look at this, see the "cnn.com" and think "ahh, that's a reliable news site, it must be fine."   But that's not actually true.<br /><br />Fortunately there's <b>a simple rule</b> that you can use <b>to find the real website that a link points to</b>. It is<br /><blockquote>Single-Slash, Double-Dot</blockquote><br />To use it, <b>look at where the the link really goes</b> (by hovering the mouse above it) and:<br /><ul><li><b>Find</b> the first single forward slash </li><li><b>Look</b> at the words between the two or three dots just before the slash</li><li><b>Decide</b> if the link is genuine, based on these words.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJe8mVDKgbgO2iHjjaAl-yLe3MQWLKSDz-zN3RnxbLBd4I_SngCgv1Zl9iSl4n-8f0I7UBMl3Sst_DFj1Q6Lp6xanSiuTb22eUVeDrvP3FiGSgJQghN-s0d7zWl48pRex9ZHD2ejym5Pt/s640/single-dash-dot-dot-rule-for-evaluating-links-in-email-for-spam-quality.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJe8mVDKgbgO2iHjjaAl-yLe3MQWLKSDz-zN3RnxbLBd4I_SngCgv1Zl9iSl4n-8f0I7UBMl3Sst_DFj1Q6Lp6xanSiuTb22eUVeDrvP3FiGSgJQghN-s0d7zWl48pRex9ZHD2ejym5Pt/s320/single-dash-dot-dot-rule-for-evaluating-links-in-email-for-spam-quality.png" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Single-Slash Double-Dot rule explained</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />In the example above, <b>the first single forward slash</b> is actually half-way through the link:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>www.cnn.com.newslist.2013-01.headlines.trouble.com<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">/</span></b>headline-listing/xx03/index.html</i></blockquote><br />So the website that it is pointing to is actually trouble.com - which might not be a place that you want to visit.  Compare this with<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130129-blue-heart-of-the-planet</i></blockquote>where the first single-slash is quite near the start, just before the very genuine www.bbc.com.<br /><br />In summary, the website name between these two or three dots should match the one that is shown in the email, and should be the right one for the company. For example, one of these points to the real TradeMe, and one doesn't:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://trademe.co.nz/login.php">TradeMe</a> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://trade-me.co.nz/login.php">TradeMe</a></blockquote>(Yes they look the same:  remember you need to start by hovering your mouse over the links, to find out where they really point to.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Two vs three dots?</h2>You sometimes have to check back three dots because some countries have two-level internet addresses. For example, instead of .com you will find<br /><ul><li>.co.uk - in the United Kingdom (two level, so you need to check three dots)</li><li>.com.au in Australia (again,two level, so you need to check three dots)</li><li>.ie - in Ireland, (single-level, so you only need to check two dots).</li></ul><br />So like the many internet security issues, there are still judgements you need to make, and knowledge you need to apply.   But still, it's fair to say that you can ...<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Use the single-slash-double-dot rule to work out where the link in an email message really goes to.</b> <br /><a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Use%20the%20single-slash-double-dot%20rule%20to%20work%20out%20where%20the%20link%20in%20an%20email%20message%20really%20goes%20to.%20via@BloggerHAT" target="_blank"> [Tweet this quote].</a></blockquote><br /><br /><h2>What do to if an email or link is suspicious</h2>With old-fashioned spam, the rule was always to delete the message, no questions asked.<br /><br />With suspected phishing emails, it's a little harder.   You need to make a judgement:<br /><ul><li>What are the <b>chances</b> that this is genuine?/</li></ul><ul><li>What are the <b>consequences</b> if it is genuine, but I ignore it? </li></ul><ul><li>Is there <b>some other way</b> that I can check out this out, without clicking on the link in the email? For instance by going directly to the banks' website by typing in the address myself - or by phoning the person to ask if they really did email me. </li></ul><br />You need to weigh up these three factors, and based on them decide whether to investigate further (eg by going to the website directly, or emailing the sender for more information, whether to trust the email message, or to just delete it.<br /><br /><br /><h2>TL/DR:</h2>Phishing emails use information about you to personalize spam.<br /><br />Apply common sense and intuition to every email that you receive. Check that links go where they are supposed to - and don't click them if they don't. <br /><br />Use the single-slash-double-dot rule to work out where the link in an email message really goes to. [Tweet this quote]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/07/putting-email-links-into-your-blog.html">Displaying email addresses on your blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/adding-rss-feed-icon-to-your-blog-using.html">Offering an RSS feed</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-facebook-personal-account-badget.html">Linking your blog to your Facebook profile</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/putting-tweet-this-quote-link-in-blog.html">How to make a "tweet this quote" option.</a>

The "Single-Slash Double-Dot" rule for identifying spam links in phishing emails

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Phishing for AdSense - or How Not to Get Hacked

<p></p><div><a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=gracey"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" /></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=gracey"></script></div><p></p>In recent weeks I have noticed an increase in spam email coming into my mail accounts. In particular, these emails are purported to be from:<br /><br />AdSense<br />AdWords<br />Blogger<br />Google<br /><br />To date, none of them have actually been from any of those places, except the most recent one. They have been from spammers and scammers who hope someone will click a link in the email. Once clicked, the link will take a person to a page that is most likely set up to resemble a real page from any of those places, however, any sign in information you enter will be captured and used by the scammer.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">How Will a Spammer/Scammer/Phisher Use My Information</span><br /><br />If you use AdSense, they'll have the information to login to your AdSense account and redirect your earnings to themselves, or the information close out your account, or to do anything you can do in your AdSense account.<br /><br />If you use Blogger, they'll have access to all your blogs. This means they can edit or change them, including putting their own adsense codes on your blog and removing yours. Most likely they are hoping your blogger login information is the same as your AdSense login. And it probably is.<br /><br />With the Google account they can login to any service you use under Google.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">What To Do When You Get An Email From any Google Source</span><br /><br />The first thing you should do -<span style="font-weight: bold;"> don't panic</span>. These guys often send emails saying your AdSense account has been disabled, and telling you to click the link to have it restored. The same sort of email is also used for Blogger accounts. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Whatever you do, don't click any links in an email, even if you think it's from AdSense</span>. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Find out first who it's really from.</span><br /><br />AdSense may indeed send you an email that your account is disabled, if it really is. And they do contain links, but usually the link leads only to a page on the AdSense Help Center.<br /><br />The next thing you should do is check the header information. If you use gmail for your login you can show the header information by opening the email.<br /><br />If you use the newer version of gmail, there is a link near the top and off to the right a little that says "show details".<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqVNRMZ_7JFx_-h5PPjdt86W6FYED5iCe6tWtj6gpsMGhtl2AS0NT1TKUJ_HQTplbNItpI-Ys1jvJQ3Cre_J9LXaCc4j7p_QXA7RVpKixC86X1Dj6CIrlOidiNl79L_Vbtr8yCc59LH4/s1600-h/showdetails.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442625098548446514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqVNRMZ_7JFx_-h5PPjdt86W6FYED5iCe6tWtj6gpsMGhtl2AS0NT1TKUJ_HQTplbNItpI-Ys1jvJQ3Cre_J9LXaCc4j7p_QXA7RVpKixC86X1Dj6CIrlOidiNl79L_Vbtr8yCc59LH4/s400/showdetails.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 115px;" /></a>When you click that, gmail will display the information in the email headers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GE2BVJbGKU-J8V_aCCOgQ3GCIIIxqa0bmFJIauXX_Xcmsedar_Ctio_eSjTvSaCIxylJvgzecI39iC7n8yuSAoT0YM_9vMNY8qGeHmHZdBjTHZzXdVBm5Wuask9Ej9JG13jPC_OytC0/s1600-h/headerdetails.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442626752279442610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GE2BVJbGKU-J8V_aCCOgQ3GCIIIxqa0bmFJIauXX_Xcmsedar_Ctio_eSjTvSaCIxylJvgzecI39iC7n8yuSAoT0YM_9vMNY8qGeHmHZdBjTHZzXdVBm5Wuask9Ej9JG13jPC_OytC0/s400/headerdetails.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 218px;" /></a><br />Check the information in the "From" and "Reply To" fields, as well as the "mailed by" and "signed-by" fields.<br /><br />If you are still not certain, go the help forum and ask for help deciphering whether or not it's "really" from AdSense or Google or Blogger. Be sure to use the appropriate forum - if the email says it's <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger?hl=en&utm_source=HC&utm_medium=leftnav&utm_campaign=blogger">from Blogger, use the Blogger help forum</a>, if it says it's <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense?hl=en">from AdSense, use the AdSense help forum</a>.<br /><br />When you are unsure - <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">under no circumstances should you click any link in the email</span>. <br /><br />You can check the link by using the google safe browsing diagnostic page for the link. You do that by typing this string in the search bar and appending it with the page named in the link below - the link below is using the url for the blog you are reading now:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://helpfulinformationfornewbies.blogspot.com/">http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">site=http://helpfulinformationfornewbies.blogspot.com/</span><br /></a><br />Change the part in red to the page url in the email link.<br /><br />The linked page in the email used in the example above can be seen below:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http:www.google.com/adplanner"></a><a href="http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http//:www.google.com/adplanner">http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">site=http//:www.google.com/adplanner</span></a><br /><br />This tool will tell you whether or not the site is hosting any malware or has been seen in the past to hold any malware.<br /><br />Other things you can do are to copy the link from your email and enter it into your browser search bar. This will take you to the page that the link goes to, where you can see the information on the page.<br /><br />Look at the page carefully and note it's location displayed in the browser. In the case of the email I used as an example, the browser displays the following URL ("x" replaces the real information to protect the innocent):<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUqrmjPIzv-KCYc9yMkGjuS8Kfpe_BSGBKlAM6al9pIF2OlJ37uiHSCg3v6JgWNqeqE5-80PFYgDX1mAI8giFmmjk0tCodMLFEhnQY1JJUu5p59znPBt3zreodHBPUUiErqQfqOwxim2k/s1600-h/url.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442633096548916626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUqrmjPIzv-KCYc9yMkGjuS8Kfpe_BSGBKlAM6al9pIF2OlJ37uiHSCg3v6JgWNqeqE5-80PFYgDX1mAI8giFmmjk0tCodMLFEhnQY1JJUu5p59znPBt3zreodHBPUUiErqQfqOwxim2k/s400/url.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 43px;" /></a>You can see that this URL goes to a secure google accounts login page for the Google Ad Planner.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">If you are still uncomfortable</span> about clicking anything on this page, then leave the page and navigate on your own to your Google Accounts page the way you normally would. Click on the service link from your own Google Accounts page (for wherever the email is from - Blogger or AdSense) and login from there.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Take Charge of Your Own Security</span><br /><br />Never click links in an email without first ensuring it's security.<br />Use safe browsing ad-ons or plug-ins to avoid phishing or malware sites.<br />Use pop-up blockers to prevent scam ads from showing.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read and investigate things before you sign up or click any links.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br />Places You can Find Help with Security Issues</span><br /><br />"<a href="http://forums.whatthetech.com/forums.html">What The Tech Forums</a>" - trustworthy and helpful with useful free software listings<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html">Safer Networking Forums</a>" - also trustworthy will some excellent free software on site<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/?ctx=web">Google Search Help</a>" - helpful information in their Help Center for safe surfing & browsing.<br /><p></p>

Phishing for AdSense - or How Not to Get Hacked

In recent weeks I have noticed an increase in spam email coming into my mail accounts. In particular, these emails are purported to be from:...

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