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New theme: NoisyOrange
A new theme, NoisyOrange, is now available to all Manila users. This original theme was created here at ideaForest.net and is available for free to the entire Manila community.

To use this theme, log into your Mania site as a managing editor, select Prefs from the editor's menu, select Theme, choose "NoisyOrange" and then hit "Apply Theme." Enjoy! - Manila news

New feature: Hotmail Retrieval
The ideaForest.net Email system now has the ability to retrieve email from subscriber's Hotmail and MSN email accounts. Contact support for more information. - Email news

New feature: TrackBack for Manila
Manila services at ideaForest.net now include Trackback.

TrackBack is a notification system which is used to notify another site that a post in your own site points to a post on the other site. Manila supports both incoming and outgoing TrackBack pings.
Manila now generates robots.txt files, based on preferences set by Managing Editor: "robots.txt is a special file which tells web crawlers and search engines what areas of your site they are allowed to visit and/or index. Manila's robots.txt feature makes it easy for Managing Editors to edit the restricted paths in their site's robots.txt file."

Email Anti-Virus Available to All
Due to the impact of spam and viruses on our subscribers and the Internet community at large, we have decided to include spam and anti-virus countermeasures to all of our subscribers.

ideaForest.net mail servers are now running ClamAV virus protection. All mail coming in and going out of our servers will be scanned for the latest viruses. If a message is found to contain a virus, it will be removed from our servers before the message gets to our subscribers or out to the Internet. Virus signatures are updated twice daily to ensure that we're up-to-date with the latest list of vulnerabilities.

Anti-virus protection is included in all email services offered here at ideaForest.net. - Email news

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All of our hosting options include Email services using latest technology in Email servers. ideaForest.net chose NetWin's SurgeMail Email server due to its outstanding spam and virus countermeasures, and because of its ability to provide failover mail delivery to ensure that mail always gets through.

All of the modern amenities are available with ideaForest.net email services: Webmail, Secure POP/IMAP, SMTP services, and RAV Antivirus (as an option).

Manila hosted accounts come with one email account and four forwarding email accounts. With our Apache Private Domain hosted accounts, there are no limits on the number of email accounts you can set up for your domain.

Read more about our Email Services.

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Reliability and customer satisfaction are key ideals here at ideaForest.net, which is why we chose Apple Xserve and its UNIX based environment to host the services we offer to the public. It's a win-win with stability, flexibility and a wide feature set that Mac OS X provides.

Contact sales@ideaforest.net for more information, or leave us feedback right on our Website.

New theme: NoisyOrange

A new theme, NoisyOrange, is now available to all Manila users. This original theme was created here at ideaForest.net and is available for free to the entire Manila community.

To use this theme, log into your Mania site as a managing editor, select Prefs from the editor's menu, select Theme, choose "NoisyOrange" and then hit "Apply Theme." Enjoy! - goto
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New feature: Hotmail Retrieval

The ideaForest.net Email system now has the ability to retrieve email from subscriber's Hotmail and MSN email accounts. Contact support for more information. - goto
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New feature: TrackBack for Manila

Manila services at ideaForest.net now include Trackback.

TrackBack is a notification system which is used to notify another site that a post in your own site points to a post on the other site. Manila supports both incoming and outgoing TrackBack pings.
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New Manila feature: robots.txt

Manila now generates robots.txt files, based on preferences set by Managing Editor: "robots.txt is a special file which tells web crawlers and search engines what areas of your site they are allowed to visit and/or index. Manila's robots.txt feature makes it easy for Managing Editors to edit the restricted paths in their site's robots.txt file."
Discuss

Email Anti-Virus Available to All

Due to the impact of spam and viruses on our subscribers and the Internet community at large, we have decided to include spam and anti-virus countermeasures to all of our subscribers.

ideaForest.net mail servers are now running ClamAV virus protection. All mail coming in and going out of our servers will be scanned for the latest viruses. If a message is found to contain a virus, it will be removed from our servers before the message gets to our subscribers or out to the Internet. Virus signatures are updated twice daily to ensure that we're up-to-date with the latest list of vulnerabilities.

Anti-virus protection is included in all email services offered here at ideaForest.net. - goto
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Filer Plugin Now Available

To make your Manila file manipulation chores a little bit easier, we are making the Filer Plugin available to our Manila hosting subscribers. One big benefit with Filer is that you can share files publicly, to only members, or to only your site's editors.

This feature replaces GEMs functionality only if you choose to activate it for your site. (Prefs->Plugins->Filer checkbox)

All images and GEMs/Files are served by an Apache server here at ideaForest.net. We don't charge extra for this service.
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Moving your Manila site to ideaForest.net?

Manila has a feature which allows managing editors to download a copy of their site to their local computers. We at ideaForest.net can then use this file to transfer your Manila site to our servers. The link above will take you to instructions on how to make this happen.
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phpMyAdmin Now Available

We are pleased to announce that phpMyAdmin is now available to our Apache Private Domain hosting customers. This package gives you the ability to manage your site's MySQL database through your Web browser.
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New Subscription Options

ideaForest.net now offers monthly subscriptions to our Manila and Apache based offerings. We also have pricing for our private domain Manila hosting plan. - goto
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Easy editing of Navigation Links

We just updated our server to give you the ability to edit the navigation links on your ideaForest.net Manila site.
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Member Email Addresses Now Safer

IdeaForest.net has implemented UserLand's latest change in the implementation of Manila to hide the email addresses from email harvesters. This means that the email addresses of your your site's members will be safe from spammers.
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News Aggregator Now Available

Manila's News Aggregation feature is now available to ideaForest.net Manila website subscribers.
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Headlines Added

News headlines concerning the services here at Idea Forest Network will now appear on the homepage of the site. You can also subscribe to news items by using the RSS feed linked below. - goto
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