Ashesh’s blog

PERIODIC BACKUPS OF data on your PC are crucial if you don’t want to run the risk of losing all your data. A lot of people use third-party utilities because they are not aware that Windows includes it own backup program. The backup utility built in with Windows XP and Vista is free, handy and reliable. In fact the whole process can take as ten minutes a week and you can let Windows do that for you.

The backup utility will be ready-to-use on an installation of Windows XP Professional edition. In the Home edition, the program has to be installed from the Control Panel’s ‘Add/Remove Windows Components’ applet (keep a Window XP CD ready, for files to be installed from it).Follow the steps below to configure automatic backup in Windows XP: Read the rest of this entry »

What do MUA, MX and POP3 mean? How is your e-mail delivered? More on these…

How does e-mail really work? What pathways are followed, which protocols are used and how it gets delivered to joe@domain.com and not to jon@domai.com is not really understood, despite millions e-malling everyday.

Local Deliveries

Let’s assume that your e-mail address is name@domain.com and you are using an e-mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird to send and receive e-mails. This is known as Mail User Agent (MUA). For sending mails, the MUA users Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to a mail Transfer Agent (MTA) like Gmail. In some cases, if the user is directly using the Web mail interface, the MUA does not come in the picture. Read the rest of this entry »