spf records, what and why?

/dev/rob0 rob0 at gmx.co.uk
Wed Sep 21 15:50:20 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:01, Brian Delaney wrote:
> anybody use thse records

I publish TXT records in SPF format for my domains.

> and if you do can you explain what they are

http://spf.pobox.com/ (and that's probably also the first Google hit.)

> for and if they are needed now for email?

Some sites do check SPF, and some might reject your mail if you don't 
publish your own SPF. That would be foolish, but I've seen worse. :)
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