It would appear that I could this single line in the zone file:

v=spf1 ip4:208.57.224.88 -all

and that would specify that all valid mail from the domain originates
from this IP address.

Is this correct?

Todd Holt
Xidix Technologies, Inc
Las Vegas, NV  USA
www.xidix.com
702.319.4349



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> I ran the SPF setup wizard from the spf.pobox.com site and it resulted
> in the following lines to be inserted into DNS:
> 
> las-DSL224-cust088.mpowercom.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
> mail.xidix.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
> mail2.xidix.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
> wsip-24-234-126-147.lv.lv.cox.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
> 
> Why does it specify the 1st and 4th lines?  The 1st line appears to be
> the RDNS suffix of our primary inbound server and the 4th line appears
> to be the RDNS of our backup inbound mail server IP address.
> 
> In addition, the wizard said that it found 4 MX records for our
server.
> We only have 2 (see
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=xidix.com). Why did
> it find 4 MX records?  Why should it care how many MX records we have?
> These are to specify incoming mail servers and SPF is to specify
> outgoing mail servers (that mail for my domain is allowed to be sent
> from).  Or am I missing something here?
> 
> We only send mail from 1 IP address.  Can I just specify that 1
address?
> I want to specify that all mail for this domain (Xidix.com) is sent
from
> a single IP address (208.57.224.88).
> 
> What am I missing in this picture?
> 
> Todd Holt
> Xidix Technologies, Inc
> Las Vegas, NV  USA
> www.xidix.com
> 702.319.4349
> 
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