Warning: Watch Out For Registrar-based Mail Handling

Well here's a great little story to get people going today. As a matter of choice, I have consolidated all of my domain registrations with Joker.com. To simplify my life, I was relying on the free mail service provided by Joker for receiving e-mail at these domains.

For the last week or so I have been sending mail out from my SparkCard account and was somewhat dismayed that I was not getting anything back in response. This was somewhat baffling, but I didn't put much stock into it initially.

Today I was investigating the problem because I had sent out a few messages to people that are usually quick to respond. As it turns out, Joker was broken! Naturally, I an send messages from the account but I can't receive responses.

Moral of the story: make sure you plan ahead when it comes to how your e-mail is going to be handled. Special warning to bloggers that have comment notification: Joker only allows 200 messages a day and those bastards are filling my inbox already.