[Discussion] testing SPF

[Bob]

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net> on Tue, 09 Jan
2007 18:41:26 -0800

> >> >I think it would have been nice if someone had posted a note on the list that
> >> >you would no longer be able to post without having SPF records for your email
> >> >account.
> 
> There's no need for this.  As I mentioned on the scoug-help list, the
> problem is at your end.  As long as the reverse DNS correlates to the
> sending domain name, spf is irrelevant.  In your case, this is not true,

But that is a very common occurrence on the internet.


> so you need an spf record so that the receiving server knows you are
> willing to vouch that pair.com is not squatting on your domain name to
> send span.

That my be but on 27 Dec 2006 I could send email to possi.org.  On 8 Jan 2007 I
could not send email to possi.org.  Somebody changed the configuration at
possi.org or the system it is running on.  A warning would have been nice.

-- 
Robert Blair