[Discussion] testing SPF

[Bob]

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net> on Tue, 09 Jan
2007 20:24:21 -0800

> >> 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.
> 
> Not to my knowledge.

Do a DNS lookup on ecomstation.com, voice.org, scoug.com, and possi.org.

Having the DSN and reverse DSN not match is normal.  Most checks are that there
is a DNS and reverse DNS not that the names match.


> >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.
> 
> Possibly.  Bill may have some to say about this.
> 
> It's also possible that in your recent hosting provider changes, something
> changed on your end.  My POV is that pair.com is causing the mismatch and
> they should not be.  This they clain to be sending from listemail.net, the
> reverse DNS on the IP address should match up.

This is my own domain so I make the changes.  The error message I received
stated that there was no SPF record.  I added an SPF record (although it is
still not completely correct) and I can once again post.  So from my POV it is
the system at possi.org that changed.

-- 
Robert Blair