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Re: spf support in QuickDNS?

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Friday, March 26, 2004
Time: 5:33:48 pm

The reason for the second is explained at the end of the pobox.com
wizard, if you ask it to explain. It's so that the mail exchanger's
HELO name is represented, for the sake of bounce messages.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 8:14 PM -0500 3/26/04, codger wrote:
>Hmmm. This is what I have. Why do you have two entries, Chris? Is
>there something I'm missing here? Do I need to have TXT records for
>all virtual domains? (I didn't think so from the docs on SPF that I
>read from pobox.com some time back.)
>
> pmbx.net TXT v=spf1 a mx ptr -all
>
>
>On Mar 26, 2004, at 7:19 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>>It is in fact just a TXT message. Don't put the quotes into
>>QuickDNS, but otherwise, you should be able to get it right by
>>simply using the wizard on their site. For example, for
>>menandmice.com, we would add the following records:
>>
>>menandmice.com. TXT "v=spf1 a:mail.menandmice.is -all"
>>mail.menandmice.is. TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
>>
>>Obviously, these records go in different zones.
>>
>>To enter these records into QuickDNS, we would simply create the
>>appropriate TXT records, omitting the quotes.
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
>>
>>At 12:00 AM +0000 3/27/04, Paul Willis wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I've been reading more and more about SPF <http://spf.pobox.com>
>>>and wondered if this was supported by QuickDNS and if not whether
>>>there where any plans to add support.
>>>
>>>It appears to be just a TXT record but after a half hearted
>>>attempt at adding these records and failing the test on their site
>>>I deleted them.
>>>
>>>Paul
>>
>>
>>
>
>Kindest regards,
>
>Ron
>
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>
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