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Re: SPF Configurations

From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:03:15 +0530

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Jeffrey Negro <jnegro () billtrust com> wrote:

I'm wondering if a few DNS experts out there could give me some input on
SPF record configuration.  Our company sends out about 50k - 100k emails
a day, and most emails are on behalf of customers to their end users at


SPF records aren't going ot help as much as some list sending and
deliverability best practices (feedback loops etc) are.
Look at the MAAWG senders best practices document - www.maawg.org ->
Published Documents

Other than delivery to hotmail, spf is a total waste of time - plus it
plays russian roulette with whatever email you handle

Current thread:

SPF Configurations Jeffrey Negro (Dec 04)
- Re: SPF Configurations Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 04)
- Re: SPF Configurations Dave CROCKER (Dec 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: SPF Configurations Jeffrey Negro (Dec 04)
  - Re: SPF Configurations Bret Clark (Dec 04)
    - Re: SPF Configurations James Bensley (Dec 04)
    - Re: SPF Configurations John Levine (Dec 04)
    - AW: SPF Configurations Andre Engel (Dec 04)
    - Re: AW: SPF Configurations John R. Levine (Dec 04)
    - AW: AW: SPF Configurations Andre Engel (Dec 05)
    - Re: SPF Configurations Lars Eggert (Dec 04)
    - Re: SPF Configurations Sean Donelan (Dec 06)

(Thread continues...)