Hi Brad.
Tried to send an email to valves vintage-radio.com.au and get an error:

Mail System Error - Returned Mail with Subject: Images for forum post
This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why each recipient was rejected.

Recipient: valves vintage-radio.com.au
Reason: This mail server requires authentication when attempting to send to a non-local e-mail address. Please check your mail client settings or contact your administrator to verify that the domain or address is defined for this server.


Anyone else having issues?

Thanks,
Fred

Hi Telftn

In Brad's first post in this thread, he noted that his email is not working, following the web site problems that have plagued him for a few months.
Hopefully he will be up and running again soon.

Harold

OK missed that last sentence.
Thanks Harold.

The mail server is a separate beast. The forums are back (I think except for the password retrieval service, which relies on the mail server to work correctly). When I can track down why the mail server will not relay correctly it will be back, along with password retrieval.

Unfortunately those raw messages tell the administrator what is not working but not why. Out of all major internet services, mail can be the trickiest because a balance has to be struck between getting things working and opening the server to spammers.

After looking at the logs and the thousands of automated attempts by spam robots to send s--- through the SMTP server every day, I have to be very careful with the settings to avoid my mail IP ending up on a blacklist.

Brad, please reach out if you need a hand in any way shape or form; happy to assist where possible.
Day to day job is keeping all the IT things ticking along, hosting, networking, development, etc.
Also manage (and host) personally mail & web systems for the family business - so none of this is foreign to me

Cheers
Michael