http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/ Alex's Support Forums Tag: dns en Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:44:52 +0000 http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/topic/one-solution-when-outgoing-mail-is-blocked#post-38 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:34:31 +0000 Alex 38@http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/ <p>Thanks for this :)</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework">SPF</a> is a security measure designed to help prevent spammers sending email from forged addresses. It works by adding a record to your DNS, stating that a server is allowed to send email for that domain.</p> <p>For example, <a href="http://www.campaignmonitor.com">Campaign Monitor</a> recommend that you set up SPF for their server before you send a mailshot. It can be the difference between an email arriving or being deleted by the ISP before it even reaches the user's inbox.</p> <p>A good host will often provide an interface for this, or sort it out for you on request.</p> <p>Propagation of changes to your DNS can take anything from a few hours to days. </p> http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/topic/one-solution-when-outgoing-mail-is-blocked#post-33 Wed, 14 May 2008 13:40:30 +0000 papyrusdoc 33@http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/ <p>In case anyone else runs into this: I installed SimpleContact on a windows h-sphere server where smtp authentication was required. We discovered that I had to enable SPF ("Sender Policy Framework") and choose pass, for the emails to go out. I was getting the auto response emails, but not the ones with the actual visitor info until this setting was changed. It took a while for this SPF enabled setting to work. </p>