Email

Email Security Foundations #04: SPF mistakes, troubleshooting, and validation

This post is part of the Email Security Foundations series on MSDigest.net. The mistakes that break SPF quietly SPF usually does not fail in loud or obvious ways. Mail does not bounce with a helpful error message. It just gets filtered, delayed, or rejected somewhere else. You only find out when someone eventually asks, “Did you get my email?” These are the mistakes I see most often, and how to fix them. Multiple SPF records …

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Email Security Foundations #03: SPF deep dive – how it works and how to configure it

This post is part of the Email Security Foundations series on MSDigest.net. What SPF actually does SPF, Sender Policy Framework, is simply a way to publish a list in DNS of which servers are allowed to send email for your domain. When a receiving mail server gets a message claiming to be from yourdomain.com, it looks up your SPF record and checks whether the sending server is on that list. That’s it.That’s the whole idea. …

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