Mail "migration"

I never thought I'd have to use my 'cluebat' section in my blog for myself, but apparently I do.

Since I moved out, a while back, mail to wouter@grep.be (and w@uter.be) was still being delivered on my Thecus N2100 that serves as server and internet gateway at my parents' place. This made sense when I set it up, because I don't usually read mail anywhere but home.

Since I now don't live with my parents anymore, however, I don't usually read mail anywhere near that server anymore. So, I'd been preparing to move the mail endpoint from goa (the Thecus) to samba (which has been my primary MX for quite a while, and which also has sufficient disk space to do so). Yesterday I made the switch, but forgot the important thing of checking up on whether the mail was actually arriving.

I'll spare the details, but suffice to say that I did make an error, and that over the last 12 hours, not a single mail that was sent by a server not known to me could send email to any of the grep.be or uter.be domains, amongst others. It wasn't blackholed (only 5xx'ed), but that's bad enough; I've now probably been kicked off every mailinglist in the universe. Go me!

Anyhow; if you sent me an email and you expect me to read it, you may want to send it back.

Off trying to resubscribe myself to some mailinglists now...