[thelist] Someone stole my email address
Jason Handby
jasonh at corestar.co.uk
Thu Apr 21 10:04:25 CDT 2005
> > 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
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