[Wlug] SPF

[Keith Wright]

> From: "Chaim The Squirrel Keeper" <richspk at gmail.com>
> 
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Keith Wright <kwright at keithdiane.us> wrote:
> > > From: "Chaim The Squirrel Keeper" <richspk at gmail.com>
> > >
> >  > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Keith Wright <kwright at keithdiane.us> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >  mail gets rejected out of hand, just because it
> >  >  comes from a dsl line.
> > 
> >  If that's the reason your mail gets rejected, it's pretty cheap to
> >  get yourself a domain name without hosting or co-lo.
> >
> >  I send mail from a computer in my basement through a DSL
> >  line.  There is no "hosting" or "co-lo" as I understand
> >  those terms, so I don't see the relevance of your comment.
> 
> The relevance is just that you don't need those extra-cost services to
> get a domain name.  When you get a domain name, and set up your MX,
> reverse DNS, and other records properly, other mail servers recognize
> your mail server as being part of a legitimate domain instead of just
> an anonymous user of an ISP's IP address pool.

Yes, that's a good idea.  That's why I did it about four years ago.

It works well, maybe sending mail through Speakeasy is not really
necessary, but I seem to remember that I had a problem with
rejected mail when I sent it from my own machine.

Maybe something else was wrong, but it's not too broken now,
so I don't fix it.

   -- Keith

PS: The answer to the original question was that I use
    SPF for outgoing mail, but not incoming.  It works,
    but maybe anything else would work as well.
    Maybe something else would work better.

 Outgoing SPF requires setting up a Domain Name Server.
 Once that works it's easy.  Example zone records were
 in the original answer.

 Incoming SPF reqires setting up an SMTP server.
 Even after the SMTP server is working, setting
 up SPF is fairly complicated.  Maybe there is
 a distribution that does most of the setup for you.