Email

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 some people could send to them successfully):
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO::
host recipientdomain.com [223.99.99.99]: 550-Please turn on SMTP Authentication in your mail client.
550-delivery5.spamserver.com [116.99.99.99]:54447 is not permitted to relay
550 through this server without authentication.

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 they sent, failed SMTP test on mxtoolbox.com (indicating the Exchange server is not accepting messages for delivery).

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.

A quick internet search shows that while earthlink.net is a valid email provider, it has been known to have issues with spam from user�s accounts in the past, especially spam that has been coded to include your name in the subject. See this July 2011 blog post�http://blog.onlymyemail.com/endless-spam-from-earthlink/

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, after I had clicked on the links & willingly entered in my real facebook username and password for them.

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 to me. I�m usually an early adopter, but my HTC phone was still under contract when the first iPhone came out and then I procrastinated�about the iPhone vs Windows Phone debate�so I managed to launch straight into a 4S.� Setting it up was rather straighforward � until I tried to add another email account.� Said second email account is on a server that isn�t mine, and all I had�was a wedmail address & the login details.� I can figure this out, surely.

Disturbing email doing the rounds over the long Easter weekend in Australia, pretending to be from BigPond. I?m blogging about this in the hope that you?ll find this entry?if you receive that email and Google it first.? It?s a scam, and a very clever one.

First the details: sender address?ebilling@bt.com?(that?s your first alarm bell-bt.com is not a bigpond or telstra domain name)

Subject: Your ADSL Service Cancellation Notice?(second alarm bell ? I am not and have never been a BigPond ADSL customer)

Recently my hotmail account junk e-mail filter has been catching some rather �Australian-targeted� spam.

Often with a sender of �Thanks for participating!�,��Much Thanks!�, the subject lines claim to have a voucher pending for me from an Australian store like Myer, Wollworths or JB-Hi Fi (though I�ve also seen an iPhone one too).� The company is MyGiftRewards, and they ask me to click on a very suspicious link to confirm my email address and claim my $500 voucher.