On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Peter <uncle_p...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > ~all denotes "soft fail". In other words that means that if you forget > to add an IP address of your new server to SPF it is not going to be a > total failure :) Soft fail allows to undertake other steps in case it > happens (say i.e. you could perform other checks to determine if the > email comes from a bona-fide and genuine source or was that only the sys > admin that has forgotten to add the ip to the SPF). In essence it tells > other servers not to mark the message in case it is not SPF positive. > > That's how I get it.
Yeah, I was going to just use -all. I just have the one server so it would be difficult to screw it up. But looking at TXT records of various sites, it seems ~all is very very common so I figured I'd just follow the crowd. Thanks, Mike >> >> My understanding is the following is probably what I want: >> >> >> >> v=spf1 mx ~all >> >> >> >> Would you agree? >> > >> > Is 'busicorp.com' actually the domain name for your server? Because it >> > already has a SPF record, and its mail is hosted by Microsoft. >> > >> > Don't make up random domain names for questions. Use only domains you >> > actually control, or the example domains defined in RFC 2606. >> >> No. My domain is not busicorp.com. >> >> Thanks for the advice, >> >> Mike
