Dick Goodman via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
I already have an SPF record which says: v=spf1 mx ~all, what's wrong with that?
LOTS. It doesn't specify a valid server. try this
"v=spf1 a:fcx2.keithdiane.us include:_spf.google.com ~all"
I don't like to copy stuff I don't understand, so I have been reading RFC's and log files. I don't see why "a:fcx2.keithdiane.us" would help, since I already told the (godaddy) namesever mx @ fcx2.keithdiane.us. (Priority: 10) 1 Hour but it seemed harmless, so I put it in. No visible change. On the other hand "include:_spf.google.com" seems just wrong. I am not trying to get gmail.com to send my mail, I want them to accept it. I am thinking that all those many various messages that say "gmail.com requires DKIM, SPF, TLS, DMARC, etc. are a pile of crimson herring. What they really mean is "gmail.com" does not want anyone else relaying mail from gmail, no matter how. I notice that WLUG uses GNU Mailman, and that mail is modified, both body and headers, and that seems to work. I have, for 20 years, just been relaying mail unchanged. Maybe that simply does not work with the corporate monopoly internet. Maybe I need to use Mailman or something similar, so that the envelope MAIL FROM is rewritten to <mymail.org>. GNU Mailman seems rather complex for that one thing. Is the wizard who set that up here on the WLUG list, or did you just delegate that? Is there a simpler way?
If anybody cares what I have been working on, part of it is on this page:
http://www.nerflings.org/none/fcs/vpsmove.html#gmail
If you can answer any of the quesions at the end of that page you may be eligible to apply to be my hero.
-- Keith