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The Sad State of Web Forums - and some Alternatives

The Sad State of Web Forums - and some Alternatives

The software industry in general is a very fast moving business, but even in this sector there are niches that allow species to survive that should, by normal means, have been dead a very long time ago. One such species is the web forum.

Authentication Fails Trying to Send Mail via Google Apps SMTP from PHP

Authentication Fails Trying to Send Mail via Google Apps SMTP from PHP

As you may know helgeklein.com also hosts a forum where I help people who have questions related to my software. The forum is configured to send out e-mails when new posts are added or when newly registered users need to confirm their e-mail addresses. Since I use Google Apps for helgeklein.com I configured Google’s SMTP server for outgoing e-mails. All worked well until recently when I started to wonder why I had not received new forum post e-mails for several days.