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Forward mail from gmail account to multiple email addresses

Campo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:13 +0000

In setting up a new web site, broomshead.com, I wanted to be able to forward an email to multiple email addresses. So after a bit of research on the net I found out you could do this by creating filters:

Login to Gmail
Click on settings (top right)
Click Filters
Click “Create new filter”
In the “To” field enter your gmail email address
Click Next Step
Tick “Skip the inbox” if you want the email archived
Tick “forward it to” and enter one of the email addresses you want to forward your mail to
Click Update Filter

Repeat this process for each individual email address you want to forward to. Pretty simple huh?

Classic ASP session timeout / loss

Campo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:30:25 +0000

Session timeout… this is the bain of my existence in our classic ASP site. We set it in global.asa, we set it in IIS 6 (properties > home directory > configuration > options tab “enable session state”) we setup the application pool to only recycle when we want it to. But still every now and again we have problems. Maybe the application pool is reaching its memory limit and recycling anyways?

One problem on a clients server took me ages to figure out. We had initially setup IIS 6 from our stock standard documented configuration, no surprises, no bells & whistles, just stock standard. A few months later we started receiving notices that users were being “kicked off” the system and directed to the log in page. Session time out seemed to be the issue here.

So I checked the usual suspects that I wrote above, and these were all set fine. I could not actually reproduce this issue when using my local broswer on the site. After investigating the user’s computer I thought it may be something blocking the asp cookie, or removing it. But this was a dead end. I eventually gave up and focussed my efforts back on the server. But i did end up recording my longest showmypc.com session of 2hours +, hi-5′s all round! The problem ended up being with the application pool, the sys admins had set the multiple process option in the application pool.

DON’T setup classic ASP sites to use a web garden ( > 1 worker processes in the application pool). If you do this, more than one instance of w3wp.exe is started for a given Application Pool. This means two HTTP requests for a given user using the same application within that application pool may be directed to any of the w3wp.exe instances running that application and session data is not shared between w3wp.exe instances because they are separate processes. In the sys admin’s defence they were trying to improve the performance and scalability of the site.

The purpose for this post is to help point other people in the right direction to set what we have setup, and also to get feedback from other developers out there. Got a suggestion for me? Let me know by leaving a comment!

How to turn off Gtalk in Gmail

Campo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:53:13 +0000

I was logged onto my Gmail the other day and one after the other, pop-ups of conversations kept appearing. I’m not saying I’m the world’s most popular guy, it was mostly work related. So on a Saturday morning my dreams of having a relaxing work free day was smited down like some classic Hollywood battle scene.

I madly scattered around my gmail page and I could not find anywhere in settings to turn off chat while in gmail. After ironically googling for a way to turn this off and going through endless posts, I found that there is a link right at the bottom of Gmail, “turn off chat”. I hope this can help someone else!

To turn off your G-talk chat in Gmail:
- Log onto gmail
- Scroll to bottom and click the link “turn off chat”