When you have a problem once and you can reset everything, it’s annoying. But usually it’s quicker than getting to the root cause of exactly why it happened. When the same problem occurs a month later, it’s time to find the root cause.In this case, my Outlook 2013 randomly decides to stop connecting to Office…
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550 not permitted to relay error sending to new Office 365 email accounts
An IT technician migrated a customer over to Office 365, including using the hosted Microsoft Exchange service for email. He followed the right steps, verified their own domain name, adjusted the MX record and added the right SPF entry. However, some people sending to this email domain were receiving a delivery failure report error (though…
Exchange mail delivery stops on Windows SBS 2003 with AVG
We have AVG 2013 successfully running on a number of client’s servers and our own servers, with no problems. However one particular client with SBS 2003 experiences intermittent email problems which always co-incide with an update to AVG. Symptoms include: Users saying they haven’t received any emails recently or their recipients haven’t received emails that…
“Hey yourname” from earthlink.net emails – spam
Just a quick post to show you some spam emails I’ve been receiving. My fantastic spam filter (http://www.ctscleanmail.com/) has been quarantining this stuff, but the subject AND the fact they are coming from the same domain name earthlink.net made me curious enough to do a little more research. Spam list earhlink.net A…
Anatomy of a fake Facebook email
Today one of my email accounts received a Facebook notification, only I knew straight away that it was a fake. This post shows you what the email looked like and the warning signs that this wasn’t a valid notification. More likely, it was an attempt to steal my facebook details & hack into my account,…
How to save yourself after accidentally deleting an email folder on your iPhone
In the tradition of ‘physician, heal thyself’, I’ll come clean and confess to a slight user error with my iPhone. I will also let you in on the secret of how I recovered from it, which you may also be able to do WITHOUT calling your IT department. So, this iPhone thing is all new…