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add_spf_record_for_your_vpm_mail [2023/08/18 19:30] – created peteyboyadd_spf_record_for_your_vpm_mail [2023/10/12 07:24] (current) – correct the bad thing where I didn't know that the spf1 record needs to be in a "TXT" directive. Also simplify with the more complicated but more straightforward 'include' peteyboy
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- ====== Email Authentication Considerations for VPM POP Mail accounts ======+====== How to Add an SPF Record For Your VPM Mail ====== 
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 +===== Email Authentication Considerations for VPM POP Mail accounts =====
  
 If you are using email addresses on your VHOST using ''mkvpm'', for example if your VHOST is "myvhost.com" and you've used 'mkvpm' to create a POP3 email account ''me@vhostcity.net'', you may have noticed that your SMTP mail from the client you've set up quite correctly, when sent to Gmail users, you are getting rejected with a message that looks like the following: If you are using email addresses on your VHOST using ''mkvpm'', for example if your VHOST is "myvhost.com" and you've used 'mkvpm' to create a POP3 email account ''me@vhostcity.net'', you may have noticed that your SMTP mail from the client you've set up quite correctly, when sent to Gmail users, you are getting rejected with a message that looks like the following:
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                  IN      MX      50 mx.sdf.org.                  IN      MX      50 mx.sdf.org.
                  IN      A       205.166.94.17                  IN      A       205.166.94.17
-  $ORIGIN loyalheights.net.+  $ORIGIN vhostcity.net.
   www             IN      CNAME   vhostcity.net.   www             IN      CNAME   vhostcity.net.
  
-  * To map to whatever SDF is doing, add a line at the bottom that looks like this: ''v=spf1 include:mx.sdf.org ~all''  +  * To map to whatever SDF is doing, add a ''TXT'' directive line ''under the '$ORIGIN' line'' that looks like this: ''@ IN TXT "v=spf1 include:mx.sdf.org ~all"''. Now it will look like:
-  * If you want to map to whatever your site is using for MX record (which is probably the same thing as above, since your MX is set to //mx.sdf.org// as above, then add a line instead that looks like this: ''v=spf1 mx ~all''. Now it will look like:+
  
   ;PDNS:205.166.94.20   ;PDNS:205.166.94.20
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                  IN      MX      50 mx.sdf.org.                  IN      MX      50 mx.sdf.org.
                  IN      A       205.166.94.17                  IN      A       205.166.94.17
-  $ORIGIN loyalheights.net. +  $ORIGIN vhostcity.net. 
-  www             IN      CNAME   vhostcity.net.net. +  www            IN      CNAME   vhostcity.net. 
-  v=spf1 mx ~all+  @              IN      TXT "v=spf1 include:mx.sdf.org ~all"
      
  
add_spf_record_for_your_vpm_mail.1692387023.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/08/18 19:30 by peteyboy