It’s come to my attention that registrations aren’t working for everyone. It appears that some mail servers don’t like mail from my system. A peek at the mail headers explains why–I have to admit, it does look a bit suspicious. So if you’ve registered and never received confirmation e-mail, that’s why.
I’m going to try to fix it this week. In the meantime, I need to go through and find the people who’ve registered but never logged in and contact them. I may be able to do this as soon as tonight. So please, bear with me and hang in there.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
and here I thought it was just my bad luck…
When I setup a mail server from home, I found out that RoadRunner doesn’t block the SMTP or POP3 ports, but does actively scan them looking for and testing for open relays.
Of course, then I found out that most national ISP’s reject SMTP mail from “residential” IP address ranges of other ISP’s. I guess that’s why DynDns.org offers mail forwarding service to their users. One more thing to look up, set up, and maintain. Fun, fun, fun.