Re: [nznog] SPF problems with nznog registration.

Steve, Your records for focb.co.nz say: $ host -t txt focb.co.nz focb.co.nz text "v=spf1 a:wibble.focb.co.nz -all" Which basicly means *you* are telling everybody to drop any email where the SPF records don't match where the email is coming from. If you change the "-all" to a "?all" or perhaps "~all" then this shouldn't happen. See page 15 of: http://spf.pobox.com/whitepaper.pdf Simon. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Steve Phillips wrote:

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richardn(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz (generated from registration(a)nznog.org) SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: SIZE=1986: host mail.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.36]: 550 Please see http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=steve%40focb.co.nz&ip=130.217.250.15&receiver=ghoul

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Can you guys please fix your registration/mail system ? and someone really should be told that bouncing mail based on SPF records alone is a bad thing [tm] (sending here because I cant seem to mail them directly..)

-- Steve.

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