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At 14:57 24/11/2009 Tuesday, nahiable@africanexpatsradio.com wrote:
>Sorry for the late response i had to go on a shot trip. Anyway I send this mail from africanexpatsradio.com. Hope you are able to help.
>
>At 14:10 19/11/2009 Thursday, Napoleon Ahiable wrote:
>
>>I have a registered and hosted domain africanexpatsradio.com. However when i tried to create an spf record the wizard repoted that africanexpatsradio.com does not have an IP address.

i guess in future i will explicitly list the options in preferential order
{as you explaining in detail how your users send from africanexpatsradio.com address's is always preferred to us guessing from looking at your emails to us}

but currently i see you seem to be sending from 217.37.29.17

so assuming this is the only you/your-provider you will use to send your email from and assuming this ip is static
{i use you/your-provider as i cannot possibly determine if you are the provider or do you buy service from this unprofessionally setup outfit}

this host has a lot of negative reputation markers
so even if your SPF is is perfect its unlikely to be checked by all, many will refuse on your/your-providers poor server setup

Received: from host217-37-29-17.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.37.29.17] helo=pmct1.gateway.2wire.net)
by flatsvr.alandoherty.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <nahiable@africanexpatsradio.com>)
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for spfdiscuss@alandoherty.net; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:06 +0000
Received: by pmct1.gateway.2wire.net (Postfix, from userid 0)
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ok the details
A the FQRDNS record of your/your-providers host is generic thus refused by many host217-37-29-17.in-addr.btopenworld.com == 217.37.29.17
{suggested fix set it to xxxxxx.your/your-providers-domain where xxxxxx is a name dedicated to ptr use and pointed at 217.37.29.17 also}
{eg1 pmct-01.gateway.2wire.net}

B the helo/ehlo identity used by you/your-provider is non-existant , thus refused by most isps/spamfilters for RFC non-compliance
{suggested fix set it to yyyyyy.your/your-providers-domain where yyyyyy is a name dedicated to helo/ehlo use and pointed at 217.37.29.17 also}
{eg1 pmct1.gateway.2wire.net, ie just setup the helo in dns}

C assuming steps A and B completed by you/your-provider
host/domain SPF-record
xxxxxx.your/your-providers-domain "v=spf1 -all"
yyyyyy.your/your-providers-domain "v=spf1 A -all"
africanexpatsradio.com "v=spf1 A:yyyyyy.your/your-providers-domain -all"
>
>from this I can only surmise that africanexpatsradio.com. was filled in as the wrong answer to one of the questions that the wizard asked {one requiring a hostname or ip}
>
>so lets not use the wizard
>
>and either let us guess/determine how you send mail from africanexpatsradio.com.
>by you sending an email from that domain to either myself or the list
>
>or by you explaining how you send mail from africanexpatsradio.com. here.
>and we can then show you how to construct an SPF record that reflects these details



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