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Jonathan Tai writes: > 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. Worth noting as well that you can set your SPF record up to be "include:earthlink.net ?all" to simply use whatever Earthlink have specified as their mail sources. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFATSvNQTcbUG5Y7woRAtPbAJwI91Ly4Oygy/OMo3T3d9HeBl/TlwCgj3Az aQcYLnoxk3Y1r5yilGxS47g= =R5af -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
