On 11-Jun-10, at 11:06 AM, jimsflies wrote:
> Deliverability of my email is what has brought me to this
> point...for some bizaar reason hotmail, msn, and live are all
> bouncing my emails. A search has brought me to SPF as one way to
> hopefully solve this.
As much as I want every email server on the planet to have an SPF
policy in place, assuming that SPF is the answer to your problems is
probably the wrong approach. The problem with your approach is that if
it doesn't solve your problem then you'll blame SPF.
Maybe the better question for you to have started out with is,
"I'm having problems with the deliverability of my email to..."
"Here is the problem I am having..." (provide evidence)
"Will SPF solve this problem?"
You might also want to visit this site
http://mail.live.com/mail/postmaster.aspx if you haven't already for hints as to why your email may have
problems reaching Microsoft's various email servers.
> I think I figured it out now...
Yes, that's the confidence we're looking for!
How about posting the domain name that you've configuring SPF for so
that we can confirm that you have, in fact, 'figured it out now...'
> no thanks to your generic pointing back to an entire website which
> seems vague in the area of implementation for someone not versed in
> server/email issues.
The reason I pointed you back to the web site is because I could tell
from your question you have little understanding of how this all
works. My worry was that, at best, you would screw up your own email
server, at worst, you would screw up email for a whole lot of other
people.
DNS mis-configuration can have far reaching consequences.
> I suppose it's job security for you IT types though. Keep up the
> good work, mate!
Actually, I'm not in IT at all. I'm just someone who, through reading
and comprehension of the subject, has come to understand enough about
how DNS and email and SPF work together to be able to volunteer my
time to help out on this list, FREE OF CHARGE" and to know that you
don't have enough of an understanding yet to implement it safely.
If I was an IT guy looking for job security I would have offered my
'IT services,' complete with rates, to you instead.
As much as you don't believe it, I was actually trying to help by
making sure you had enough of an understanding of what you were about
to do before you went off half-cocked.
Now, if you ask the correct questions, I'm not adverse to helping you
out despite your rudeness and "free of charge!"
--
Gino Cerullo
Pixel Point Studios
21 Chesham Drive
Toronto, ON M3M 1W6
416-247-7740
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