relay=smtp.ntlworld.com. [62.253.162.40], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 452 Filesystem error - message not accepted

I'm guessing that's bad, espically as NTL's service status checker denies all knowledge of an outgoing problem.

Ho hum.

Maybe one day work will unfuck their mail server so it will relay for people inside the company, and I won't have to send all my outgoing email via an SSH tunnel to our server.

Extract from email from IT manager:
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With immediate effect
- bounced email will not be forwarded by the administrator
- it will be retained by the administrator for 1 month
- you must ask the administrator to check for emails you expect might have been incorrectly addresed
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:puts tin foil hat on
... yup... I can feel an incorrectly addressed email coming in now...

Total Number Folder
----- ------ ------
1065348 120 /dev/null
9411 3 /var/spool/mail/thomas.c
10558 3 Intelligentsia
919 1 cron-jobs

Well, I've woken up in some sort of super-happy move (he says, clicking past the nasty bits of Scooter's Logical Song into Twain's Man I Feel Like Woman and thinking of 'Dam bar days).

Dunno if it's just getting the hang of Delphi (I spent yesterday morning fighting with our app's architecture, then with doing abstract methods, then with how to override them).

Came in today, and it all just works :)

Oh, and off for a bit of a party bash in Bath with some of Rachael's oldest friends, as well as off to the Wookie Hole pub (must write that up in BITE) for lunch.

All round goodness.

> Because corporate policy requires me to!

Then your company IT department are looking at things the wrong way.
What Manchester Univeristy (for instance) says, is that they will provide you with methods X, Y and Z to access your email. They will support clients A,B and C.
If you want to use K to read your email, that's fine, because X and Y are all standard open protocols.

This is the way IT should, imho, be provided - as a service, not a blanket imposition of someone elses 'best way' on everyone.

:rereads

I think a pint and a half of 5.1% ale at lunch time does me good :-)