Hi Girish, On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar > <benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Let me give a brief explanation of how it works.You publish SPF >> records for your domain. So, in your DNS, you add entries like >> >> mydomain IN TXT "v=spf1 +mx -all" >> > > Correct me if I am wrong but what has MX records got to do with SPF records? >
I was just explaining my example :). When you define an SPF record with a +mx record, all A records of all MX records are actually checked. The link below explains it. http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax#mx > MX is for receiving mail, SPF is for sending... > > Or am I wrong? > May be I didn't put it in a clear way. SPF is for the receiver of your mail to see if the mail actually came from your network. MX is need when some one sends an email to you. His SMTP server looks up for MX records in your DNS and sends it to that server.(Of course, it is more complex that a single like :) ). thanks -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc