Hmmm...

I think I'm about to learn something.

1) aster.ds.org is our email server

2) I was under the impression that a "real" email server needs to be able to 
both receive 
(postmaster@) and send (MAILER-DAEMON@) administrative emails.

What I have for SPF now is: email is ONLY valid from aster's IP.

Question: Is it truly acceptable to say that an email server will accept no 
email (no MX) 
and will generate no email (blocked spf)?

(I realize I could munge it so the server sends as one of our other domains. 
Somehow 
that feels incorrect... and the nice thing about allowing admin emails is it is 
about the 
simplest "real" email setup imaginable. NO normal emails, all emails are 
generated only 
at the server itself, blah blah blah.)

Thanks for thinking this through with me ;)
Pete


On 10 Oct 2017 John Levine said...

>In article <[email protected]> you
>write:
>>Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>
>I'd start by publishing an SPF record that just says
>"-all" rather than what's in there now which says that
>there's all sorts of places that real mail can come from. 
>A lot of places treat a plain -all as a special case for no
>mail at all, as opposed to -all after other stuff which
>means that you think these are the only places your mail
>can come from but you're probably wrong. 
>
>If you don't expect inbound mailto ds.org, a null MX is
>also a good idea.  You can still collect reports via your
>dmarc record. 
>
>You'll get less blowback, but it'll never go away.  I
>also have some ancient domains (try iecc.cambridge.ma.us)
>and the spam never stops. 
>
>R's,
>John


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