Do you publish SPF records?

[mneylon]

If you use email for marketing on a regular basis do you publish SPF records for your domain(s)?

 

[mneylon]

Wow!
Not one reply !

 

[beep]

my host didnt have an IPF record setup and since i was having problems sending a mailer out with hotmail sending it to the junk folder i got it setup but it made no difference.
i think it helps with mail but its not the final answer.
although hotmail must have the nastiest filters

 

[mneylon]

Hotmail and some of the other webmail providers have been forced to really clamp down.

A lot would depend on the type of mail you were sending, so without knowing what you were doing it would be quite hard to advise you

 

[Busarus]

just doing this now..

still getting my head around how it works...

whats stopping someone sending the email from an account with mail.mydomain.com as their smtp server?

 

[mneylon]

whats stopping someone sending the email from an account with mail.mydomain.com as their smtp server?

Two things:

1 - A properly configured mail server won't allow unauthorised users
2 - You control the DNS for the domain, so they can't use the A record

 

[Busarus]

not following... maybe i stated my case wrong....

can i restrict the ability to use mail.mydomain.com as an smtp server to a specific ip

 

[mneylon]

can i restrict the ability to use mail.mydomain.com as an smtp server to a specific ip

You could, but you shouldn't have to if you are using SMTP-auth or similar, which means that only authenticated users are allowed to relay

What is your SMTP?

 

[Busarus]

i've got the control panels for it open so I can change any settings i need to

so if someone can recommend good practice settings

 

[Busarus]

i have popbeforesmtp on
that will stop anyone from using mail.mydomain.com as theirsmtp yeah?