On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:22, jdow wrote: > Mark, please look at the headers of my message and a reverse DNS > lookup on it. I'm not sure how SPF is going to affect the situation, > particularly when I am mobile. I do always use the Earthlink mail > servers when sending.
Well, your address is an Earthlink account. Provided that Earthlink publishes a SPF record that says "smtp.earthlink.net" (or whatever mail server you relay through) is allowed to send mail for earthlink.net addresses, you won't have a problem. Even if you had your own domain, jdow.com, you could publish a SPF record that says allow mail.jdow.com (your home server maybe?) and smtp.earthlink.net (your ISP's mail server) and smtp.cox.net (your grandmother's ISP's mail server) to send mail for jdow.com addresses. And you still won't have a problem. > Earthlink rents connectivity from all manner of POP providers. I > often look like I am on UUNET, for example. The reverse lookups > don't get patched because the patches would not percolate through > in a timely manner. Given that how does Earthlink post meaningful > SPF records for my case? See above... it's not the computer you send from that matters. It's the mail server you relay through. > (I am NOT going to change ISPs just to get around the SPF nonsense. I > have had this account for over a decade now and am not going to get > rid of it. If SPF cannot handle my situation then I can be as cavalier > as those who might tell me to switch, "Fix the damn protocol.")) No one has to change ISPs. Unless Earthlink refuses to spend 3 minutes to publish a SPF record... - Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com
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