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Use Gmail Account To Relay Email From PHP mail Function

Localhost Mail

One of the things I find hard in developing a web application is using a library for sending email such as PHPMailer. I find it hard when used to send emails. Another thing I find hard is when sending emails in a localhost webserver. It would also cost me more and would take much time in setting up my own mail server. PHP’s mail function is also very useless in such testing ground. If you are using a gmail account

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Thunderbird Profile On Windows and Linux

ThunderBird

I dual booted both Windows 7 and Backtrack 5 on my Laptop and a problem starts when I used thunderbird on Backtrack Linux because all my mails are on my windows OS. Based on what I know, Thunderbird creates a profile during my first run of thunderbird on windows. Everything is stored in that folder (accounts, mails, extensions, etc.). In linux, I know that thunderbird does the same thing. What I wanted to do was to use only one profile

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Automount USB Devices On Linux

USB Flash Drive

I am running backtrack 5 on my machine and just found out that it doesn’t automatically mount my USB flash drive. The steps below solves the problem and will automatically mount USB flash drives on login. The first step would be to open your modules file which needs a root access found at /etc/modules and add at the bottom the following lines:

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