Re: on the value of SPF records (was: Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?)

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 17. März 2006 00:25 Mathias Homann wrote: > One day, i get a ticket in our ticket system, which sums up as "we > need to have spf records, and we need them now, because that guy at > $SOMEOTHERCOMPANY says so, so that our newsletter is less likely to > get flagged as spam." > > When you

Re: on the value of SPF records (was: Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?)

2006-03-17 Thread jdow
From: "Mathias Homann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... bye, MH yes, i DO know that this list is NOT the scary evil monastery. but it fits into the discussion... sort of... Um, er, , , aren't monasteries for "boys"? I better get outa here FAST before someone notices. >{

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Craig McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 17:15 Stewart, John wrote: >> Aye; thanks. Unfortunately, our current external DNS server doesn't >> yet support SPF records. =( > > SPF is setup just via TXT records, what DNS software doesn't su

on the value of SPF records (was: Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?)

2006-03-16 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 23:46 schrieb Michael Monnerie: > On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 17:15 Stewart, John wrote: > > Aye; thanks. Unfortunately, our current external DNS server > > doesn't yet support SPF records. =( let me rant a bit about SPF records. Background info: my day job is fondl

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 17:15 Stewart, John wrote: > Aye; thanks. Unfortunately, our current external DNS server doesn't > yet support SPF records. =( SPF is setup just via TXT records, what DNS software doesn't support that? mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Mic

RE: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Stewart, John wrote: >> On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 08:16 David B Funk wrote: >>> No, but in the SPF record for "artesyncp.com" you should list the >>> names of the outgoing SMTP servers so SA (and the world) will know >>> that they are 'permitted' to source mail for "artesyncp.com". > > Aye; tha

RE: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Stewart, John
> On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 08:16 David B Funk wrote: > > No, but in the SPF record for "artesyncp.com" you should list the > > names of the outgoing SMTP servers so SA (and the world) will know > > that they are 'permitted' to source mail for "artesyncp.com". Aye; thanks. Unfortunately, our

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 08:16 David B Funk wrote: > No, but in the SPF record for "artesyncp.com" you should list the > names of the outgoing SMTP servers so SA (and the world) will know > that they are 'permitted' to source mail for "artesyncp.com". You can look at http://openspf.org there's

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stewart, John wrote: > Also, and this is perhaps a bigger issue, if we were to set up a seperate > SMTP server for only outgoing mail (and not incoming), would it be an issue > if this outgoing SMTP server is not in the MX records for the artesyncp.com > domain. > > So, for ex

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread mouss
Stewart, John a écrit : > We've got an outgoing SMTP gateway of bratwurst.heurikon.com (heurikon.com > being an old domain name, and I've never bothered with trying to update the > domain for all of our infrastructure machines), but our outgoing domain on > our emails is artesyncp.com (and that may

RE: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread Gary W. Smith
It shouldn't be a problem as long as the outgoing SMTP host has a valid domain name and the machine name also resolves. So if the machine name is blah.yourdomain.com you should still have an "A" record for it in your DNS. Without it many mail applications will reject the email at the MTA level (I