[Gllug] Configuring SPF to cope with secondary incoming mail servers

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Tue Dec 5 18:24:16 UTC 2006


On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:17:01PM +0000, David wrote:
> On Monday, 4 Dec 2006, john at sinodun.org.uk wrote:
> >I've been doing a bit of research on how one can configure SPF for
> >incoming mail if you don't have control over your secondary MX servers
> >(typically because they belong to your ISP).
> 
> SPF merits aside, why bother with a secondary MX?

Do you mean why bother with multiple MX records or with multiple actual
boxes (given that you could have multiple boxes servicing a single MX
record, either via multiple A records or via load balancing)?

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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