--On November 18, 2006 11:27:26 AM -0800 Richard Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:





I thought PRT record is the same? or do i misundertand. Can you please
explain the difference? and what must i do in my case?

I am going to assume you mean PTR record. PTR's really only occur in .in-addr.arpa zones. They are for reverse DNS which is not SPF. Many sites do require *VALID* reverse DNS nowadays though, which is very different from SPF (which I'll get to in a moment). A *VALID* rDNS consists of a PTR in your providers .in-addr.arpa zone, as well as a matching A record that it points to (PTR means PoinTeR).

SPF is simply a specially formatted TXT record associated with the sending domain which states which A, MX, or IP's can send mail on behalf of that domain. If you've got people denying mail because of no SPF record well you don't want to send mail to them anyway. SPF is seriously broken in the face of *many* everyday applications, including mailing lists, and remote dialup users.

Now if you *have* an SPF record (which again is *NOT* a type of DNS record at all, it's a TXT record) and that SPF record is *wrong* I can see some net.kook's denying mail based on that.


In my case several people do not get any mail, because there spamfilter
blocks mail from our domains on our servers, due to Reverse or SPF
settings . This is all i can understand, form the error messages.


In my Power admin is no such thing as a SPF TYPE.  only PRT / TXT etc..


I hope it is clear enough for you guys?

Please let me know.


thanks,

Richard.

Richard Vernooij wrote:
I seem to have a problem that many messages from a webserver, or
emailserver do not arrive on certain places.

Now i found that it could be the reason, that i do not have SPF records
for reverse DNS.

SPF has _nothing_ to do with reverse DNS.

Now when i check
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=domainname.com (after
a day with the real domain)

I still have a warning about not having a spf record.

Well, then your domain does not have an SPF record.

Did you add a record of type "SPF" to your domain's zone?
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