And in case you’re wondering where we’ve been, remember this moral: it’s not a good idea to use an email address in your own domain as the MAIL-FROM authenticator address.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, consider yourself lucky.

Long story short, I had been hosting this site on a server at an old client site, and had accidently set things up so it would be very difficult to put things back together when that server went away.

Interesting side note to this story: my domain is hosted at Network Solutions. After a few months of getting conflicting information about what I’d need to fax to them to prove that I actually own this place, I was able to do this over the phone—with no identification whatsoever—when I called up to pay my $35 for the year. Reset my password, gave out my account ID, and basically gave me complete control.

Needless to say, if I weren’t me, I could be doing big mischief on a site in my name right now. Moral of this story: if you own a domain, keep it renewed well in advance.