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Mantis is a free web-based bug tracker. As most web trackers, it uses e-mail to notify testers and developers about the evolutions of issues they have reported or they just follow. For that purpose, Mantis uses Codeworx PHP Mailer class that gives you the opportunity to use the PHP mail() function, sendmail or a SMTP server to send those e-mails. The use of the PHP mail() function is the default option. Unfortunately, some web hosting companies limits the PHP mail() function by forbidding the use of the 4th and 5th (optional) parameters. The result is that you can’t use the e-mail functionality of PHP mailer / Mantis because they use the 4th parameter. ...

In my previous post, I was glad to see that the Journal of Visualized Experiments ( JoVE) was now indexed by PubMed. I then spent some time watching some very interesting videos. And I realized that something is missing … In my mind, I thought that third-party archiving (like arXiv or self-archiving) was one of the mandatory requirements for Open Access journals … and I was wrong. It seems JoVE is not giving the (technical) possibility to download the publication from their website (all what you can download is the abstract in text version). Now that this publication is a video and not a text/PDF version, it’s a problem for me (who cares?) and the Open Access movement (imho). ...