In a recent post I mentioned that I had survived an Office 365 migration with only minimal scarring. We run HPE Content Manager which is "Enterprise Software". Just like the large government agencies that Content Manager is designed for it's big, slow, resistant to change, expensive, bureaucratic but yet incredibly …

Recently we encountered an issue sending an email from one domain, hosted on Office 365 to another domain also hosted on Office 365. The destination email address had an apostrophe e.g. tim.o'reilly@example.org and we were getting the error message. 554 5.4.14 Hop count exceeded …

I've been hosting my own email on this domain for just over a year now and I hadn't noticed any problems until a couple of days ago a German friend of mine using GMX tired to send me an email and it bounced back with the error message "no valid …

You can send an email using telnet it's very useful for debugging. It's something I've done several times before but because it's not something I do regularly I always forget the exact syntax so I've written this as a Note to self to remember the commands.

Finding the mail server …