On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stewart, John wrote:
> Also, and this is perhaps a bigger issue, if we were to set up a seperate
> SMTP server for only outgoing mail (and not incoming), would it be an issue
> if this outgoing SMTP server is not in the MX records for the artesyncp.com
> domain.
>
> So, for example, if you do an MX lookup on artesyncp.com, you will see that
> bratwurst.heurikon.com is our MX record, so this matches. However, if we had
> a new host, not on our MX list, doing the outgoing mail delivery, would this
> be a likely indicator of spam?
No, but in the SPF record for "artesyncp.com" you should list the names
of the outgoing SMTP servers so SA (and the world) will know that they
are 'permitted' to source mail for "artesyncp.com".
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