SPF setup

[amit290]

Hello,

I've searched and read hundreds of topics on SPF on this forum but still cant quite get my head around it so hoping someone can clear this up for me. I started looking into it a few weeks ago after finding e-mails to hotmail dont get delivered, not even to the JUNK folder. I suspect the likes of Yahoo and AOL will be giving me the same problem.

I have 2 ip addresses with ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com pointing to each one. Both have PTR records. My incoming and outgoing mail server is set to mail.domain.com .

My DNS looks like this:

domain.com. NS ns1.domain.com.
domain.com. NS ns2.domain.com.
domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.45
ftp.domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.45
mail.domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.45
ns1.domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.45
ns2.domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.46
webmail.domain.com. A xxx.xxx.112.45
www.domain.com. CNAME domain.com.
domain.com. MX (10) mail.domain.com.
xxx.xxx.112.45 / 24 PTR domain.com.
xxx.xxx.112.46 / 24 PTR domain.com.
domain.com. TXT v=spf1 a:mail.domain.com -all
mail.domain.com. TXT v=spf1 a:mail.domain.com -all

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Can you something wrong with that? Any other ideas why my e-mails dont get delivered (or bounced) from Hotmail?

Also.... if I use web mail, do I need to add something to the SPF record?

I hope someone can help me out with this one.

 

[Satoriya]

Hi,

I suppose it will be helpful for you to check this article:
http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?threadid=47039

This man had the same poblem.

 

[amit290]

Yep have read that one but that seems to suggest how to solve when sending via PHP. This is from Outlook or Thunderbird. POP3 / IMAP connections.

 

[jwdick]

if your email is being relayed through your provider, you may need to add their domain name and/or ip address in the spf records because the receiving mail server sees the email as coming from the relay. That was what happened to me.

 

[amit290]

Sounds like something to look into. Is there a way of me finding this out? or would i need to ring the VPS provider?

 

[jwdick]

Would be best to call your provider. My provider has as many as six ip addresses in their relay that I had to add to the SPF records.