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Send from an Alias – Shared Mailbox

Say you have your primary email james@example.com and an alias info@example.com If you want to send as info@example.com you need to "Configure Exchange Online to Send from Aliases" (see below) Caveats With a Shared mailbox sending from an alias only works in Outlook...

Convert Unix Time to a Date Time Stamp

A MySQL database field with times similar to '1752463231.455827' How to query the time and show it as '2025-07-14 17:22:28.911723' -- set timezone SET time_zone='Australia/Melbourne'; USE mydb; SELECT created_on, from_unixtime(created_on) as event_melb_time FROM...

Encrypting the Raspberry Pi WiFi Pass

By default raspi-config adds an unencrypted WiFi password to the wpa_supplicant.conf file. To remove it do the following: # get root sudo su - # change to the wpa_supplicant dir cd /etc/wpa_supplicant # append a hashed Wifi password block wpa_passphrase "YOURSSID"...

Find out if a package is hosted on Packagist

Search for a specific package on packagist from the composer command line Here are some options to narrow down the search for a package. If your composer.json has custom vcs repos composer show -a will list thos # show everything composer show -a # show everything...