Hi -
I work at an ISP, where we have a hosting customer asking us to add an
SPF record to his DNS zone file. I looked up the organization which
was telling him about SPF and found some info that makes me afraid
he's just going to start spamming people.
On their web site, they have articles like this:
SPF Records: The Key to Email Marketing Success
which claims such things as, "Adding an SPF is an easy, one-time fix
that can give your message a potential VIP pass into your customers'
inbox."
Well, in the past, this customer has bought mailing lists and tried to
use them to send out UCE. Here's the SPF record he wants us to add.
Not having used SPF before, I want to be sure that I'm not letting him
use out DNS to somehow legitimize a possible effort to send out UCE.
IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ip4: me-ss2-v2tfzw.mailengine1.com ip4: 111.111.11.1
-all"
When I googled mailengine1.com, there seemed to be a lot of references
to spam. When I did a whois, it led back to streamsend.com.
Would you go ahead and add this SPF record? Am I just being paranoid?
Thanks,
Beth
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I work at an ISP, where we have a hosting customer asking us to add an
SPF record to his DNS zone file. I looked up the organization which
was telling him about SPF and found some info that makes me afraid
he's just going to start spamming people.
On their web site, they have articles like this:
SPF Records: The Key to Email Marketing Success
which claims such things as, "Adding an SPF is an easy, one-time fix
that can give your message a potential VIP pass into your customers'
inbox."
Well, in the past, this customer has bought mailing lists and tried to
use them to send out UCE. Here's the SPF record he wants us to add.
Not having used SPF before, I want to be sure that I'm not letting him
use out DNS to somehow legitimize a possible effort to send out UCE.
IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ip4: me-ss2-v2tfzw.mailengine1.com ip4: 111.111.11.1
-all"
When I googled mailengine1.com, there seemed to be a lot of references
to spam. When I did a whois, it led back to streamsend.com.
Would you go ahead and add this SPF record? Am I just being paranoid?
Thanks,
Beth
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