Let’s add my custom domain to my new Proton Email This will let my new Protonmail account send and receive emails as nick@nicklitten.com, as well as the default protonmail.com email address: The first thing we will need to do is is define the domain name we will be using (in my case its nicklitten.com) and

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Migrating from Gmail to Protonmail took just over an hour for 24k emails I’ve been using Gmail since the early 2000’s – Yikes!! Over twenty years of my digital life stored on Google’s servers? No wonder they bombard me with very specific targetted advertising 😉 I originally watched the import process and was bemoaning the

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Protonmail feels like Gmail! Both Protonmail and Gmail have similar features and can be used on any device. Protonmail also has many more privacy settings and comes with aquivalent for calendar, contacts, drive plus a wonderful VPN option! ProtonMail has to a clean, minimalist design with separate boxes delineating different areas in the screen ui. I like this a

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Goodbye Google, Hello Proton I’ve used Google Mail for years and years. I like it. But in now it’s time to move to something new. Something more secure. Something that doesnt read my emails and sell my information. Welcome to Protonmail Proton Mail is the world’s largest secure email service. It offers end-to-end encryption and lots of

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Let’s look at a quick little example RPG email validation program – SQLRPGLE ILE There are lots of code snippets, example programs, and long waffling discussions in internet land filled with pointy-headed AS400, Series, and IBM i programmer chaps (and chappettes) arguing about the best way to “validate an email address in RPG”. I know

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Email on the IBM i I’ve been chatting with a client of mine about sending emails from his AS400 iSeries Power IBM-i System. More specifically about sending emails from his system, but with the email address of the user that is signed on. This emails send but frequently go to spam. Luckily, setting up IBM

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This morning I awoke to find an email from a digital blackmailer. This email shows one of my commonly used login email accounts plus one of my more commonly used password. Yikes! My password information has been leaked from somewhere! I’ve received several email just like this over recent weeks. Each time it shows my

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Using SQLRPGLE to Validate email addresses in IBM i Following on from my previous blog (basic email validation) I decided that it would much nicer to (a) have the regex stored in a data area so that we can easily play with it to try different validation scenarios and (b) lets have a shot at

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IBM i SQL to validate Email So, we have a customer master file that’s been around for years. Users have been keying in customer info and sometimes adding email addresses, sometimes not, sometimes entering nonsense, or even just text that says things like “this chap has no email so don’t email him”. Yes, it’s a

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Email an IBM i Output Queue as PDF Email an OUTQ – should be simple right? Here you are, you have this output queue filled with reports and you want to email them to your Boss/Colleague/whoever! You don’t really want them in smelly old text format you want them to look nice in something like

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From AS400 DLS to IBM i IFS Over recent years, I’ve been playing with the IBM i Integrated File System a lot more than usual. The IFS allows us to use and easily share IBM i Data with Windows/Linux/Apple or just about any other computer on the network. It basically shares native IBM i (AS400)

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Have you ever wanted to extract some data out of an IBMi/AS400 file using SQL and then email that data to someone as an Excel Spreadsheet? Now you can… all from one IBMi command without having to write any CL code to do it. Projex4i: DSTDTA command now handles SQL STRINGS for selecting data I

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