* Avleen Vig <lists-exim@???> [20050124 11:38]: wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:02:39AM +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> > I hope you had a nice weekend!
>
> Great thanks!
>
> > Q1. Is that setup RFC-ignorant or RFC-legal as far as mail exchange on
> > the Internet is concerned? I'm in doubt, especially regarding
> > sender verifications and callouts.
>
> There is nothing wrong with your setup.
> Many organizations set up their mail like this.
> It's very standard to have your mail go OUT through boxes which do not
> accept email from the internet (ie, they are just relays).
Thanks! At least this confirms to me that I still retain my sanity! I
was greatly in doubt even though I thought I knew this like catechism ;)
> > Q2. Must I publish this box as one of my MXes? The reason I am asking
> > this is because GMX.de (they use SPF) is already rejecting e-mails
> > sent via this server saying:
>
> No. GMX.de are broken, very badly broken.
> They're probably not accepting email from several major ISP's, including
> AOL and Earthlink in the US, if this is the only reason they're not
> accepting your mail.
Good to know they are. That would explain why only gmx.de were denying
mail from that server, and not exim.org servers, etc. Perhaps there is
a way to track down their Admin and tell him/her to forget about SPF??
> I can't find an SPF record for your domain. Can you show me what you
> have so far?
I used the spf.pobox.com helper script, which generated the data that I
then included in wananchi.com zone file:
wananchi.com IN TXT "v=spf1 mx a:msa.wananchi.com a:smtp-out.wananchi.com \
a:longonot.wananchi.com a:ns2.wananchi.com a:mail.wananchi.com ~all"
Isn't that correct?
cheers
- wash
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