[Discussion] testing SPF

Bob POSSI-4c9yah2 at listemail.net
Wed Jan 10 13:15:19 PST 2007


** Reply to message from Bill Schindler <bill at bitranch.com> on Wed, 10 Jan 2007
12:10:22 -0700

> In the specific case of listemail.net, I'd guess pair.com decided to  
> move their outgoing servers to a different network, and your troubles  
> with our mail server's local policies began. Just to analyze the  
> rejection:

Bill thanks for the explanation.

It still is as clear as mud to me.  I have been reading http://www.openspf.org/
and RFC4408 and hope some of this becomes a little clearer.


> Or better still (so that spoofs of your domain can be actively blocked):
> "v=spf1 a:relay00.pair.com/24 mx -all"

I have changed the SPF record to what you suggested.

More reading to do.

-- 
Robert Blair



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