Reflexion has added a new feature to our Email Defense service to block email based on the language it is in. We have prepared a screencast you can view (opens in a new window) to show you how to enable this for your enterprise (domain) and give you the details on how it works.

If you just want to skip straight to setting it up for your enterprise:

1. Log in to the Reflexion control panel as a domain administrator
2. Choose Permitted Languages from the Enterprise Options menu
3. Check the checkbox for Check Permitted Languages
4. Add any other languages you want to permit
5. Save your changes

Emails in blocked languages will be quarantined, not rejected. If you have any questions on this new feature, please submit a support request.

Blogware—the software that powers this blog—is a fully functional blogging service which includes the Publisher’s Control Panel where you can manage your blog and posts. In addition to this, you can also use 3rd party blogging software like BlogJet, Ecto, and others to post articles to your blog.

While this flexibility is good, it often causes confusion as to what you can/must do with the Publisher’s Control Panel and what you can do with 3rd party blogging software. To try to clear this up, I whipped up a quick chart which notes most of the common tasks you do with your Blogware blog and what you can do with each tool.

Action/Tool	Publisher's Control Panel	3rd Party Posting Software
Posting an article	Yes	Yes
Editing an article	Yes	Yes†
Creating a photo album	Yes	No
Uploading a photo to an album	Yes	No
Creating a category	Yes	No
Managing users and permissions	Yes	No
Viewing stats	Yes	No

† - Supported by most posting software

If you use Firefox (and you should to be more secure) as your browser and use WebMail to access your email, you’ve probably been frustrated when you click on an email link on a web page and it tries to open your email client. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could open up WebMail and compose a new message to that address?  With the WebmailCompose Firefox extension, you can do just that. Here’s how:

• First, download and install the extension using the link above and restart Firefox.
• Next, in Firefox choose Tools/Extensions… from the menu to bring up the Extensions window.
• Highlight the WebmailCompose extension and click the Options… button.
• If you are using our Linux hosting WebMail, choose “horde” as the Default/Left Click Service on the General tab.  If you are using our Windows hosting WebMail, choose “other”.
• Click the WebMail Services tab.
• If you are using Linux WebMail, check the box next to Enable Horde and uncheck all other services . In the text entry next to Enable Horde, replace the URL there with the following:
  http://webmail.adaptivehostingsolutions.com:2095/horde/imp/compose.php?
  popup=0&to=^T&cc=^C&bcc=^B&msg=^M&subject=^S\
  
  If you are using Windows WebMail, check the box next to Enable Other and uncheck all other services.  In the text entry next to Enable Other, replace the URL there with the following:
  http://helmmail.adaptivehostingsolutions.com/Main/frmCompose.aspx?to=^T&subject=^S
• Click OK to save your changes then close the Extensions window.

Now, when you click on an email address link on a web site, a new message will be composed in WebMail.  Note that you should already be logged in to WebMail for this to work effectively.

• Display only the blog name for the home page's page title
  
• Display the category name and blog name as the page title on category pages
• Display only the article title for the page title when viewing an article.

If you are using Windows, BlogJet natively supports Blogware. It is very easy to configure and a nice client (I'm using it to post this message).

If you want to use a blogging client to post entries to your blog that doesn't offer Blogware support, you can use any client which supports the MovableType API. To do this, use the following settings (these were tested using ecto):

• API Type: MovableType
• Endpoint URL: http://www.blogware.com/xmlrpc.cgi
  This my be broken down into server name and URL. If so, use www.blogware.com as the server name and /xmlrpc.cgi as the URL.
• Username: Your Blogware username
• Password: Your Blogware password

If you use Flickr, you can add your Blogware blog to it to be able to blog any photo in Flickr. Here's the settings you'll need:

• What kind of blog do you have? BloggerAPI Enabled Blog
• Endpoint: http://www.blogware.com/xmlrpc.cgi
• Username: your Blogware username
• Password: your Blogware password
• If you have multiple blogs, choose the one you want to post to.

The drag-and-drop layout manage in Blogware lets you easily add/remove/move the system components that come with every blog. In addition, you can create a custom component which can also be added to your blog using the layout manager. This is useful if you want to incorporate items like blogrolls, Google AdSense, polls, or other custom content and still have it use the same look and feel as the rest of your blog. Here's how you do it.

1. Click on the Look and Feel tab.
2. Click on the Advanced tab in the Layout manager area.
3. Under the Add Custom Component area, enter a Name for your component--this will not show on your blog but should be descriptive so you know which components are which.
4. In the Content area, you can enter your custom content. If you want this be formatted like the rest of the components, you can use the following as a basis:
   

   <div class="component">
   <div class="componentHead">YOUR HEADING</div>
   <div class="componentContent">
   YOUR CONTENT</div>
   </div>

5. After you've saved the component, click the COLUMNS tab and then drag and drop your component where you want it.
6. Be sure to Save your changes.

One of the benefits of blogs is the ability to publish the blog and it's categories (at least for Blogware blogs) as RSS feeds. These feeds can be used in software commonly called either a news aggregator, feed aggregator or RSS aggregator. This allows you to track mulitple blogs (or any RSS feed such as those found at news sites) and read them in one place. Here's how you can do this:

First, download a news aggregator if you don't have one already. For Windows, I suggest FeedDemon; for OSX, NetNewsWire.

Next, browse to the blog or news site you want to track using a browser or your news aggregator. Look for a link or icon for the RSS/XML feed. Typically, it is denoted by the following icon:  For Blogware blogs, it is a text link named: 'Syndicate' or 'Syndicate this category'. Depending on your aggregator software, you may be able to alternate-click on the link to pull up a context menu to add that feed to your list. Otherwise, you can copy that link to the clipboard and use the aggregator's feature to add a new feed and use that link as the RSS/XML location.

After you've saved your feed you can use your aggregator to see if there have been new articles published to the site and view them all in one place.

Chris Scott
Adaptive Hosting Solutions, Inc.