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Are You Using SPF Records?

Posted by timothy on from the spf-50-should-be-enough dept.

gravyface writes "I've been setting up proper Sender Policy Framework records for all my clients for past year or so, hoping to either maintain or improve their 'reputation' in the email universe. However, there's a lot of IT admins I speak with who either haven't heard of SPF records or haven't bothered setting them up. How many of you are using SPF records for your mail domains? Does it help? How many anti-spam vendors out there use SPF records as part of their 'scorecard'?"

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  1. Re:Use DomainKeys.. by NormalVisual · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yahoo, Gmail, MSN/Hotmail, and AOL pretty much require that you have DomainKeys implemented if you want to email their users

    I don't have DomainKeys set up, and I've never had any difficulty getting mail to users of any of those services.

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  2. Re:yes by Snover · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Read again.

    Spammers can’t use his domain to forge spam, because SPF-aware mail servers reject it. Hence, he doesn’t have to deal with tons of bounces, spam warnings, virus warnings, etc..

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