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« on: February 20, 2006, 02:44:19 PM »
Or perhaps a better question - is there a way to edit the information in a DNS zone file for a dedicated server? I'm not the most adept with SSHing into the server, and I was hoping someone might have already written a little tutorial on how to do this.

A little background: My organization works with a third party vendor for our email membership lists, and the vendor would like to incorporate the Sender Policy Framework (SPF; see openspf.org for more information) into our DNS records so that our emails have a better chance of reaching our AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo recipients. As far as I can tell, SPF is good way to assure that your email address isn't spoofed and makes large ISPs more happy to deliver your mail. So a second question - anyone else ever encountered this Sender Policy Framework, and if so, any thoughts about it?

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2006, 09:43:30 PM »
Hello,

Would you please let me know what control panel you are using for your server?

If you are using cPanel, you can enter SPF records  in the WHM DNS editor. You would use the BIND Module in Webmin, if Webmin was installed on your server. As for Plesk, put a spf record in your DNS for each domain. Don't forget to leave out the " from the beginning and end.

I hope this helps.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2006, 10:13:27 PM »
Quote from: paulkittredge on February 20, 2006, 02:44:19 PM
So a second question - anyone else ever encountered this Sender Policy Framework, and if so, any thoughts about it?

We had a discussion about SPF a while back in another thread and I've been implementing it. Here's my post regarding it:

http://www.lunarforums.com/forum/index.php?topic=25095.msg207277#msg207277
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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2006, 06:36:15 AM »
Hi Vlad. I'm using CPanel/WHM, so I should be able to use the DNS Editor. I'm not 100% sure how to phrase it, though. I should put my domain in the "Domain" box, right? and then 14400 in the "TTL" box, choose TXT for the "Record Type" box, and then the full SPF information in the last box? or is there a different way to do it?

Leighsww, i read through that post and I have to admit I didn't exactly see a clear answer. The upshot, though, seemed to be that it (in general) didn't harm anything and it did seem to be a good idea. Is that right?

Thanks to both of you for your help!
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« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2006, 11:43:46 AM »
Quote from: paulkittredge on February 23, 2006, 06:36:15 AM
Leighsww, i read through that post and I have to admit I didn't exactly see a clear answer. The upshot, though, seemed to be that it (in general) didn't harm anything and it did seem to be a good idea. Is that right?

Yes, pretty much.

After my testing/using it, I realized that the spoofed emails won't actually be blocked automatically (as I had hoped it would) and would require the user to check the SPF headers to see if it is forged (at least that was my findings).

However, some service providers make it easier to do that and won't require the user to have to know this info to benefit by it. Here's a link regarding AOL:

http://www.openspf.org/howworks.html

All-in-all, since it doesn't have any downsides that I could determine, I found it better to implement it than to not, since I had a lot of spoofing happening to my domain name in the past.

Hopefully, more will be done with SPF in the future, so that it will actually/automatically block spoofed email from ever reaching the recipient's inbox. This would then be perfect, in my opinion.
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2006, 11:24:21 AM »
Hi,

I'd like to set up an SPF entry. I'm using cPanel, but can't see any WHM/DNS icon. Is there something else I need to install/activate first?

Thanks,

Greg.
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2006, 11:31:09 AM »
Oh wait, I just noticed you guys are discussing this in the "dedicated" category <insert ohimsoembarassedsmileyhere>

Is there a way for us mere mortals to set up an entry ourselves, or should we email tech support?

Thanks,

Greg.
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2006, 11:40:22 AM »
You'll have to have support set it up for you. Create your SPF string and include it in your support ticket.
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