Email Server Solution

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Tue Aug 2 19:09:52 UTC 2005


Steve Buehler wrote:
> At 10:52 AM 8/2/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> It sounds like most of your problems with AOL blocking you because of
>> spammers or viruses could be stopped by setting up a spf (TXT) dns
>> record for your domain or the domains that you are in charge of. AOL
>> pays attention to these and will drop any mail that comes from an IP
>> that you do not put in the record.
> 
> 
> Ok.  I give.  What in the heck is an spf (TXT) record?  Something that
> just came out this year?  I have everything that AOL requires now.  If
> that is a new term for a PTR or reverse record, then I already have it.
> 
> Steve

It is probably an SPF record. http://spf.pobox.com/.

It dictates from which IP a message for a specific domain is supposed to
come from.

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Ugo

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