I should have written this one up 2 weeks ago, but on top of the Photography issues we have had cake issues !!
The other half arranged to have a cake from www.barbraellen.com pre sliced and boxed beastie, and costs less than a traditional cake.
Back in Feb we had issue trying to contact them by email or phone, no replies !!
It transpired that her ISP (in the USA for some reason) actively hosts spamming web sites, so as I use several DSN block list providers on my email relays it got blocked,
(BTW I run my own mail relays and have FULL logging of all successful and UNSUCESSFULL SMTP transaction, Headers only, not message body !)
So I add an exclusion for their precise mail relay,
So back to the Cake issue, at the beginning of May the other half start to panic as we have heard nothing from the cake shop, and again no replies to phones call or emails (and no events in the SMTP log this time either)
We were just about to give up and start to look for another cake vendor, when the mother in law calls the cake shop, and gets an answer, (Hmmmmmmmmmm)
So we call the cake shop immediately and sort the details out, and get told they have tried to call us and email us several times over the past few weeks,
However, as previously mentioned I run my own mail relays so know that no attempt was made to email us and we have , like most people these days, a house hold phone that records the last 20 or so callers with caller ID and we have had no called (inc anonymous) we could not account for !
Watch this space to see if we get our CAKE !!!
