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I was definitely delusional

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Yep.  I have to confess I was analogue delusional. Although I have been taking digital pictures on my phone and camera for a few years I suffered from being delusional. Years ago I had a normal camera. Just to be clear I mean one with film. The 24 or 36 shots in a roll you loaded into a camera and then snapped away. Once you were done you could process the film in a camera shop or supermarket or even send it away. You would then get back a bunch of prints and the negatives. In the 1970s and 1980s we all hoped to be David Bailey who advertised Olympus cameras. Just a compact camera and you would take great pictures. Off you went on holiday, got through a few rolls of film, mostly over-exposed them and made a mess and paid for a bunch of blurry pictures with the occasional good one. The Louvre  This was a snap of the Louvre in Paris that actually turned out quite well. However for most of us we didn't have a clue and unless you became a photography anorak you just di

Why was my email rejected ?

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It's been rejected!. OK so I made up this completely rubbish address but if you get an email that has been rejected, a so-called "bounced" mail, you can do some good analysis of the reason if you can read the SMTP logs. SMTP being the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol that sends mail between servers and other places too. Before you yawn this is what you get back. Generating server: AM5EUR02HT096.mail.protection.outlook.com kbmregregkrgrgktrgrtb@hotmail.co.uk SNT004-MC5F20.hotmail.com Remote Server returned '550 5.1.351 Remote server returned unknown recipient or mailbox unavailable -> 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable' Original message headers: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=outlook.com; s=selector1; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version; bh=lURfIqW7JBVRaKyNHMwqLzWn5AAyxsprWeqWekgSchc=; b=rH8HpA6mqgsmvED575S7sZZ3m6fy36WII+18d68flJNvd0IaNC+ Received: from AM5EUR02FT045.eop-EUR02.prod.prote