A few months have passed since I started coming to the office all day everyday. I’ve loaded new systems and stabilised a lot of what goes on around here. Of course, just when things look good and “normal,” along comes a few proverbial spanners to foul things up.
Our email provider, Hotspace have been having all sorts of problems with their systems. This, in turn, has been causing us no end of grief. Email delays, servers not responding and problems delivering email to AOL ‘cos they’ve put a Reverse DNS block in place (still can’t believe Hotspace don’t have a reverse entry for their mail server – like, DUH!). Add to this some problems getting our antispam/virus trial with Message Labs up and running (Hotspace’s problems delaying the changes to the mail server & MX records plus initial emails from Message Labs being blocked by Hotspace for some reason) and there goes my stable world.
There are other issues that are stuffing things up, but hey, that’s life around here, no? :)