Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2010 using POP

Getting Started

Log into your Gmail account an go to your settings page. Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab make sure POP is enabled.  You can choose to enable POP access for all new mail that arrives from now on, or for all mail in your Gmail account.  On the second option, we suggest you chose keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox so you can still access your emails on the Gmail server.

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Add Your Account to Outlook 2010

If you haven’t run Outlook 2010 yet, click Next to start setup and add your email account.



Select Yes to add an email account to Outlook.  Now you’re ready to start entering your settings to access your email.



Or, if you’ve already been using Outlook and want to add a new POP account, click File and then select Add Account under Account Information.



Outlook 2010 can often automatically find and configure your account with just your email address and password, so enter these and click Next to let Outlook try to set it up automatically.



Outlook will now scan for the settings for your email account.



If Outlook was able to find settings and configure your account automatically, you’ll see this success screen.  Depending on your setup, Gmail is automatically setup, but sometimes it fails to find the settings.  If this is the case, we’ll go back and manually configure it.



Manually Configure Outlook for Gmail

Back at the account setup screen, select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.



Select Internet E-mail and then click Next.



Enter your username, email address, and log in information. Under Server information enter in the following:

  • Account Type: POP3

  • Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com

  • Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com


Make sure to check Remember password so you don’t have to enter it every time.



After that data is entered in, click on the More Settings button.



Select the Outgoing Server tab, and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.  Verify Use same settings as my incoming mail server is marked as well.



Next select the Advanced tab and enter the following information:

  • Incoming Server (POP3): 995

  • Outgoing server (SMTP): 587

  • Check This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)

  • Set Use the following type of encrypted connection to TLS


You also might want to uncheck the box to Remove messages from the server after a number of days.  This way your messages will still be accessible from Gmail online.



Click OK to close the window, and then click Next to finish setting up the account.  Outlook will test your account settings to make sure everything will work; click Close when this is finished.



Provided everything was entered in correctly, you’ll be greeted with a successful setup message…click Finish.



Gmail will be all ready to sync with Outlook 2010.  Enjoy your Gmail account in Outlook, complete with fast indexed searching, conversation view, and more!



Conclusion

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

How to repair mysql database

Step 1: Determine MySQL password


If you are using an external version of MySQL, you should already know your MySQL password. If you are using the built-in MySQL version that comes with hMailServer, you might not know your password. To determine it, follow these steps

Step 3: Repair the table


Follow these steps to run the SQL statement to repair the table.

  1. In the tree to the left, click on the hmailserver database.
    The hMailServer database will now be active.

  2. In the right part of the SQLyog window, click on the Query tab.

  3. Enter REPAIR TABLE tablename, for example, REPAIR TABLE hm_messages.

  4. Click on the Execute Current Query button in the toolbar (or select Edit->Execute Query->Execute current query or press F5).

  5. MySQL should now repair the table. After the table has been repaired, restart the MySQL and than the hMailServer service. Depending on what table is corrupt, a restart of the services may not be required, but we recommend that you always do it.

Monday, July 15, 2013

7 Best Websites to Scan Your Files Online For Viruses

Everyday on the Internet, we are getting latest information on advanced technology, gadgets, new software programs for different purposes and much more but with all these, we are also getting some news about viruses, malwares, trojans and lots of other malicious programs that spoil our computers, leading to instability of system.

There are many ways that viruses, malwares, trojans and malwares may spread like just copying stuffs from virus infected flash drives, hard disks and the biggest source happens to be the internet! Most viruses are spread through the Internet and we are unaware of it while using the Internet especially if we are not using a reliable Antivirus. If you don’t have a good Antivirus program installed on your PC while you’re busy downloading or surfing web, then your computer is an easy target for malwares!

 

Here I am listing out some online programs that will scan the files for viruses and malwares. These are not alternatives to the regular antivirus programs as the ones listed here only work online. You may use these services free and simply for Scanning of files you’re downloading from Internet or probably you may want to scan existing files on your HDD. With the following web services, you may scan files as well as URLs too for viruses. These will only Scan and NOT remove viruses as these are used for scanning purpose only, if you want to remove viruses simply opt for good Antivirus.

Best Online Services for Scanning Files and URLs


1. Virus Total:

virustotal web

 

This is the best available online service that scans files as well as URLs too. Virustotal is a free service afterall and Scans thoroughly using other online virus scanning services like like Cyber Content, Phishtank, Bitdefender etc.

If you want to scan a file,just upload file (File Limit:60MB), wait for few seconds. The same thing applies if you want to scan a URL, paste the URL where it’s supposed to be, scan and wait a few seconds for the result.

2. MetaScan Online:

metascan online

This is second best alternative to scan for viruses and suspicious files online with 43 different antivirus engines that will give you an accurate result about the file you uploaded.

The difference between this and VirusTotal is that MetaScan supports files of sizes up to 80MB. Another dustinguising feature is that it allows you to use over 40 antivirus engines at once, giving you a result you can totally rely on.

Although, you can’t scan a URL with it, it’s still pretty great.

3. Virscan.ORG:

virusscan.org

In the above list, Virscan.org also stands with 20MB max. file size scanning and it can even scan RAR/ZIP archives too easily but with a maximum of 20 files in the ZIP/RAR archive. With 25+ antivirus engines you may easily scan your files and detect malwares, viruses and trojans present.

4. Jotti VirusScan:

jotti malware scanner

 

Jotti is a free online service that enables you to scan suspicious files with several antivirus programs. Scanners used are of Linux versions as detection differences with Windows versions of the same scanners may occur due to implementation differences of Scanners.

There is 25MB limit for files and here also you can’t scan URLs.

5. Scanthis.NET:

scanthis.net

 

Scanthis.net is another great alternative to above mentioned and does same job, it lets you upload your files for scanning and you also have to option to scan URLs.

ScanThis.net supports URL scanning of files, not websites scanning like Virustotal! But still is better than above services as it supports file URL based scanning. ScanThis is powered by the open source and industry-recognized Clam AV software.

6. Garyshood Web File Scanner:

garyshood web scanner

This is a simple Web-based scanner and it supports direct upload and URL scanning just like Scanthis.NET does though it uses antivirus engines like  F-PROT, Avira AntiVir, BitDefender, AVG, and ClamAV for scanning of viruses or suspicious files.

The Look of  this site is very Simple and hence, easy to use. Garyshood is extremely simple in GUI but works  pretty well.


7. VirusScanner by NoVirus:

virusscanner

 

This provides exactly the same service as those listed above and it is powered by Novirusthanks.org.

Files are scanned with multiple Anti-virus Engines for better results and integrity of files.

So, these are the best known online virus scanners you can make use of. The do come in handy when you need to scan a file quickly and the PC you’re using has no installed antivirus.