[thelist] Someone stole my email address

[Jason Handby]

> > Can I get all of that again in English please??? I have no 
> > idea what you just said :-( What is a SPF record and what 
> > does it do? How does the fact that it is missing affect 
> > anything when it comes to email? Please educate me.
> 
> This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that 
> looks like it came from your domain, which can make your 
> domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), 
> and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather 
> than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record ASAP, as 
> 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to have SPF 
> records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF 
> records on 01 Oct 2004).
> 
> http://spf.pobox.com


Just to clarify... SPF records aren't mandatory are they?



Jason