Security

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Google (Gmail) rejecting emails – SPF, DKIM & DMARC setup guide

Description If emails sent from your domain to Gmail addresses are being rejected or marked as undeliverable, this is usually because Google has tightened its email authentication requirements.Your domain must now have the correct SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in place to verify that emails are sent from authorised servers.…

Password protecting a site in Scout

If you need to password protect one of your sites (e.g. a staging or development site) that’s hosted on our Scout Control Panel, simply follow these steps: Login to your Scout Control Panel Navigate to Sites and click on the site (or the settings cog) you wish to protect Select…

Password Protecting Your Website

It’s a common request to password protect a website for many reasons.  cPanel makes this easily achievable as it has the ability to password protect any website or folder from within the Directory Privacy section. 1. Login to your cPanel account. When you first set up an account with us, you would have…

Using Scout Control Panel‘s Sentry security feature

What is Sentry? Sentry is a Scout Control Panel security feature that helps defend against Denial of Service attacks, unwanted crawling by bots or malicious behaviour (e.g. spamming, carding, fraudulent orders, vulnerability scanning). Sentry detects potentially unwanted automated activity by checking the behaviour of the visitor’s browser. If you are…

Website email notifications not working

Description Your SMTP plugin or app integrates with a third-party SMTP or transactional email service such as Mailgun, SendGrid, Brevo, Mandrill or AWS SES and it can’t send emails. You may see errors such as: Could not open a socket to the SMTP server Connection timed out Failed to connect…