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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.
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