RE: Email notifications and SPF

[Fife and Drum Webring]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, James S. Huggins (RLOpen) wrote:

I've also asked enom.com, namecheap.com and a new webhost I'm working with
(1and1.com) for their responses

I asked namecheap.com about it a couple of months ago. Basically, there is no way to add the SPF record into your domain DNS records at the moment.

From the answers I got, I don't think they fully understood SPF yet

either. Or, they didn't understand my questions. Or both.

To clarify some of the discussions on this (sorry for jumping in late; haven't checked this email box in about 2 weeks):

My understand of SPF is that if you have your own domain(s), you will want an SPF record in your DNS records for each of your domains. This will help mail servers on the receiving end verify that the message really did originate from a mail server allowed to send messages from your domain. Without a valid SPF record, the "From" is likely a spoofed address and will get flagged as spam (and possibly just discarded once SPF usage becomes widespread by the major ISPs).

Jeff D