Thread: Do you publish SPF records?

If you use email for marketing on a regular basis do you publish SPF records for your domain(s)?

Wow!
Not one reply !

my host didnt have an IPF record setup and since i was having problems sending a mailer out with hotmail sending it to the junk folder i got it setup but it made no difference.
i think it helps with mail but its not the final answer.
although hotmail must have the nastiest filters

Hotmail and some of the other webmail providers have been forced to really clamp down.

A lot would depend on the type of mail you were sending, so without knowing what you were doing it would be quite hard to advise you

just doing this now..

still getting my head around how it works...

whats stopping someone sending the email from an account with mail.mydomain.com as their smtp server?

Originally Posted by Busarus

whats stopping someone sending the email from an account with mail.mydomain.com as their smtp server?

Two things:

1 - A properly configured mail server won't allow unauthorised users
2 - You control the DNS for the domain, so they can't use the A record

not following... maybe i stated my case wrong....

can i restrict the ability to use mail.mydomain.com as an smtp server to a specific ip

Originally Posted by Busarus

can i restrict the ability to use mail.mydomain.com as an smtp server to a specific ip

You could, but you shouldn't have to if you are using SMTP-auth or similar, which means that only authenticated users are allowed to relay

What is your SMTP?

i've got the control panels for it open so I can change any settings i need to

so if someone can recommend good practice settings

i have popbeforesmtp on
that will stop anyone from using mail.mydomain.com as theirsmtp yeah?