Hello Daryl, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 5:51:26 PM, you wrote:
DCWOS> Robert Menschel wrote: >> And that leads to the second question: what's the best way for an "end >> user" to obtain/verify SPF records? I have all the capabilities of XP >> (shudder) and Cygwin readily available, and can get Linux command-line >> capabilities via SSH to SARE's server, I believe. DCWOS> Whatever your favourite way of retrieving DNS records is, will work. DCWOS> On Windows you could use nslookup, at a command prompt: ... Thanks. That's a good start. Now, how will I know when a domain has an SPF record to validate upon? What do they look like? When I do this on your domain, I see a TXT record that begins > v=spf1 and has what appears to be two SMTP system addresses (a:), and an ~all. Would I be correct to read it as, > If you receive email that you can verify comes from one of these two > SMTP machines, then you can be confident that the email does indeed > come from this domain. > However, the ~all indicates that we do not limit all email users to > these two machines, and you could receive valid domain email from > other sources. Thanks again. Bob Menschel
