-----Original Message----- From: Keith Wright
Yes, that's a good idea. That's why I did it about four years ago.
It works well, maybe sending mail through Speakeasy is not really necessary, but I seem to remember that I had a problem with rejected mail when I sent it from my own machine.
Maybe something else was wrong, but it's not too broken now, so I don't fix it.
-- Keith
Hmm... Have you ever called Speakeasy and asked them to set up reverse DNS for you? I seem to recall that's something they have to do on their end.
PS: The answer to the original question was that I use SPF for outgoing mail, but not incoming. It works, but maybe anything else would work as well. Maybe something else would work better.
Outgoing SPF requires setting up a Domain Name Server. Once that works it's easy. Example zone records were in the original answer.
Incoming SPF reqires setting up an SMTP server. Even after the SMTP server is working, setting up SPF is fairly complicated. Maybe there is a distribution that does most of the setup for you.
Thanks for the reminder. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to the original question. -- Rich