[Klug-general] Mail Servers

[Laurence Southon]

On 17/12/10 17:00, Peter Childs wrote:
> Sorry I've never got my head round SPF.
> 
> SPF is a special record in the DNS right, (which should be easy to set
> up) or is it a special record in the reverse DNS, which is more of a pain)
>
They are TXT records for the domain and contain IPs and hostnames of
MTAs that will legitimately send email for that domain. At a command line:

dig google.com TXT

will show you Google's SPF record.


The language is a bit cryptic but there is an online generator:

http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html


LS
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Laurence Southon
Tiger Computing, Bexley
www.tiger-computing.co.uk