Right now we are working on a lot of exciting things in YippieMove. Over the next few months, you’ll start seeing these things being rolled out to production. Today we are announcing support for two highly requested features: Time zone and a filter on the status-page.
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Last year we attended the first gSocial, a conference for Google Apps resellers and ISVs. We were so impressed by the event that we decided to come back this year again for gSocial 2.0.
The event happens on November 12-13 at The Domain Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA. You can find the complete schedule here, but I can assure you that it’s worth your time. While it is not an official Google-event, it is the number one event if you’re reselling Google Apps or developing applications for Google Apps.
This year, I will also be giving a talk on the topic of email migrations, where I share some of the experience we’ve built over the years of working with YippieMove.
Tickets are still available, but make sure to register before they sell out.
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As much as we support Google’s efforts to keep hackers and spammers away from our email accounts, it often leads to some inconvenience for the users. This of course is unfortunate, but often time required.
Recently Google rolled out a new system to improve their security. This did unfortunately create some issues for YippieMove in the sense that many of our users’ received an ‘invalid credentials’-errors when trying to create a transfer to or from Gmail (despite the fact that they entered the correct password).
We have been able to reproduce this issue, and here are the steps you need to take if you are affected by this.
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In light of the recent hack that turned Wired’s Mat Honan’s life upside down, many people have started to re-think their password strategy. While this hack only affected one individual (in contrast to many other bigger hacks, like the Playstation Network-hack), it touched us all on a very personal level. If a tech-savvy journalist at Wired can be hacked this easily, could you be targeted as easily?
At WireLoad we take security very seriously. This is especially true for YippieMove. Due to the nature of YippieMove, it is necessary for us to temporarily store some sensitive data, such as passwords and emails waiting to be uploaded. However, it is in our interest to minimize the period that we store this data and we have automated processes that deletes this sensitive data in accordance with our strict privacy policy.
Since we need to store the passwords during the migration, we are excited that Google now offers something they call Application-specific passwords. This works just like a regular password, but you can create multiple passwords and easily manage the access. This is great both for us and for our users. The password you provide us is less ‘valuable’ for an attacker and you can revoke the access to the password at any time.
Hence, our advice would be that your use ‘Application-specific passwords’ for you next YippieMove migration.
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SPF or Senders Policy Framework was formerly known as Sender Permitted From, and sometimes also called SMTP+SPF. In 2004 it became known as Sender Policy Framework.
SPF is a system that is used by a domain to prevent email spam by detecting if a sender is using email “spoofing.” Spoofing is when a sender is trying to falsify where their email originates from. An SPF record is a TXT-record in a Domain Name System (DNS). SPF records simply list all the servers that are allowed to send email from your domain.
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