On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Adam Chlipala <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you pointing out a flaw in the way I set up the SPF record, such > that Google and others might trust our SMTP server(s) less as a result?
Well, only tentatively pointing out a flaw / asking for clarification, as I'm not really familiar with SPF (it's really just what I have read up on today, so I am no expert!) However, the (possible) flaw isn't that others will trust the HCoop SMTP servers less, but that email sent labeled as from an @hcoop.net email addresses will be trusted less if they are sent through a server that is not labeled as trusted in the hcoop.net SPF record. The HCoop wiki encourages sending the email through other servers, and so it seems like following HCoop wiki's recommendation will result in less trusted @hcoop.net emails, which seems a bit odd to me. In fact, I have just tested this by sending an email labeled as from my @hcoop address through my local smtp server, to my gmail address. Looking at the received message in gmail, there are the headers: Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 137.205.128.8 as permitted sender) client-ip=137.205.128.8; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 137.205.128.8 as permitted sender) [email protected] Which doesn't look very good to me. Again I'm not sure about any of this... sorry if I am speaking out of place. _______________________________________________ HCoop-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help
