I am progressing with the development of this site.\u00a0 There are lots of ideas afoot and its great that I can actually go downstairs and see the machine that drives the show.<\/p>\n
So my latest update is a contact form to allow you to send me a message.\u00a0 For obvious reasons I don’t want to put my email address in plain text, so a contact form makes sense.\u00a0 It was easy enough to add, but an absolute pain to chuff to get working.<\/p>\n
So the WordPress scripts send the email, yes? Not quite, it needs a local email server to do so.\u00a0 So I installed “PostFix” on the server and configured it.\u00a0 To test it I sent a simple test email to my PlusNet account.\u00a0 Didn’t work.\u00a0 Ahhh, need to open port 23 from the firewall, easily done.\u00a0 Try again, still didn’t work.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n
To answer that question I found myself in the depths of a returned email in the email server.\u00a0 I discovered this –<\/p>\n
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Sender rejected. IP is DNSBL listed –<\/em><\/strong> What is this devilry? What it reduces to is this.\u00a0 PlusNet don’t want me to run a mail server.\u00a0 They “could” stop me by blocking ports 23 and 110, but no.\u00a0 What they have actually done is registered all their customers IP addresses as Spammers, so they are blocked world wide!<\/p>\n Well, that’s not very nice!<\/p>\n So I have requested that spamhaus remove my IP address from the list, which they have.\u00a0 This could go a number of ways –<\/p>\n I think it will work.<\/p>\n It’s working, so option 1 prevails.\u00a0 You can send me messages now!!<\/p>\n “Dave, you stink!!”<\/p>\n Yeah, well, perhaps a little more constructive please.\u00a0 I have a bath at least once a year you know.<\/p>\n I wonder if PlusNet will notice my sorcery…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am progressing with the development of this site.\u00a0 There are lots of ideas afoot and its great that I can actually go downstairs and see the machine that drives the show. So my latest update is a contact form to allow you to send me a message.\u00a0 For obvious reasons I don’t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websitedesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n http:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/query\/bl?ip=80.229.245.122<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Update<\/h1>\n