Should I use an SPF Record?

Our site allows people to send a request to various subscribers by email. The emails are sent with the FROM being the requesters email address so that our subscribers can reply to them directly.
In the last week we have received a lot of bounced emails from accounts that don't exist on our server. I think setting up an SPF record could help in this regard.
However, given the way our service works, does it make sense to set up an SPF record?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Adding an SPF record would help in regards to people using your domain name as the source of spam messages. It wouldn't have any effect on emails you send out under other people's name, though.
If your server sends out a message from [email protected] your SPF record doesn't come into play at all, but under those circumstances you wouldn't get the bounce message anyway - it would go to [email protected] However, your IP address may get flagged as sending bogus email.
In any case I'd add a SPF record. It's not hard to do, and it helps insulate your domain from problems. There's no downside to having it unless users in your domain regularly send mail from other mail servers (which they shouldn't be doing anyway).

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But a big issue is that you are editing H.264 in FCP native. FCP doesn't work with H.264 native well, all sorts of potential issues can arise. Sync issues, quality issues, the correct shot be exported, all sorts of things. FCP works best with the FCP editing codecs. What are they? They are found in the EASY SETUP list. But for HD, the most commonly used option is ProRes 422. There is a BIG problem that FCP Legacy will SEEM like it'll work with H.264 natively just fine...it doens't throw up any warnings. That is bad. Also something Apple fixed with FCX.
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If you want to edit native, you need to look at Adobe Premiere Pro CC. It's interface is more accurate too.

After adding SPF records for Hybrid Development some external mails bounced back with error SPF Unauthorized mail is prohibited.

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What hardware and software should I use to A/V record a piano recital?

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The crucial point in piano(any) recording is which microphones you use and where you put them.
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Leopard DNS Server: Zones with SPF records?

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to setup SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records for some domains I'm currently managing with a Leopard DNS server and I don't see any documentation anywhere. Can someone please tell me if it's even an option? I'm new to running DNS with Leopard, so I could use all the help I can get.
Sincerely,
Israel
Message was edited by: Israel Thompson
Message was edited by: Israel Thompson

Israel Thompson wrote:
So let me see if I have this right. Any changes I want to make that will not be editable in the GUI, I want to do them in db.mydomain.com instead of db.mydomain.com.zone.apple? Easy enough. However I tried adding "v=spf1 a mx ~all" (with quotes) to my file and it appeared to have broken the dns zone. What’s the proper way to enter these in manually? Can you give me an example of how it looks in your zone files? I’ve pasted a sample of mine below. Tell me if anything is wrong.
Israel,
I am new to Leopard Server - so I'm no DNS guru. I, too, have not used a DNS setup tool that requires a FQDN just associate an IP with the base of the domain (mydomain.com.). How did you get your 'mydomain.com. IN A 11.22.33.44' accomplished? Did you create a new A record and put mydomain.com. in the Machine Name field?
Here's my setup:
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db.mydomain.com
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;THE FOLLOWING INCLUDE WAS ADDED BY SERVER ADMIN. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE.
$INCLUDE /var/named/zones/db.mydomain.com.zone.apple
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db.mydomain.com.zone.apple
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$TTL 10800
mydomain.com. IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. admin.mydomain.com. (
2008010951 ;Serial
7200 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
345600 ;Negative caching TTL
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN NS ns.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.218
mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip:64.251.168.218 ip:64.251.168.220 ~all"
www IN A 64.251.168.218
mail.mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.220
mail.mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a ~all"
xserve.mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.218
xserve.mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a ~all"
ns IN A 64.251.168.218
ns1 IN A 64.251.168.220
mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
... where xserve.mydomain.com is my machine's hostname.
I have a funky setup for DNS because I don't have a different, or second, DNS server (just the one on my Xserve with everything else) and my name servers are under this zone. I added the two IPs for my mail and hostname to the base SPF record. Someone could still spoof from using the name or www domains (same IPs) but I can check for it using Postfix up front. I also added "v=spf1 a ~all" in case another mail server tries to check the mailing server or hostname directly.
You'll usually want to set a TXT "v=spf1 ~all" (SPF null) for any records that have no possibility for mail origins, like your ftp and mobile, but it appears you also have a similar issue to me - those services will be running under the same IPs as the mail service. This is why I added "v=spf1 a ~all" to all essential services (mail and hostname). I don't know what will happen if you add an SPF null to an unnecessary service that happens to also have the same IP. (Will the IP get blocked in a cache during a lookup??) So I didn't add an SPF TXT to those domains. I'm a little confused at this point. I should probably read more about it.
http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Common_mistakes
Also, you'll notice I added FQDN to mail and xserve. If I do this and ensure they are in my reverse DNS PTR records then I've seen that when I add new zone records with same IPs (like for another domain) then the PTR records don't keep switching to the newest entry (why does it do that?).
I don't think your use of the . in the CNAME records is correct. I think the CNAME records are probably unnecessary since you have already fully defined the domains in A records. Also, those A records probably don't need FQDNs (with the ending .). I only added mine for the reason noted above, concerning the PTR records.
I hope someone who knows some more than I can chime in on this.
Larry
Message was edited by: Larry_S (removed mx from SPF TXT for main domain record, as it was redundant with the ip:)

Virtual mail hosts: 255 character limit on SPF records

This one was a surprise to me, and caused a lot of headache, so I thought I'd pass it along.
I'm running multiple virtual mail hosts off of my doughty PowerMac single G5 1.8GHz running OS X Server 10.4.11. Some of the outgoing mail was being bounced as spam because a) there wasn't an SPF record on any of the domains and b) the domain of the mailserver didn't always match the domain of the sender. (Most often, it went out under the hostname of the server, cerberus.limbo.jcf.org—which is useless, since that's a LAN address.)
Trying to be a good citizen (and make sure that all of everyone's mail got through), I added SPF records that explicitly named each and every mailserver on the machine, just so that everything was clear and aboveboard—but they ended up being about 500 characters long.
Fastforward a week or two... and I was having problems with my DNS zones loading—I'd get errors that they'd timed out. After pulling my hair out for a while, I discovered that TXT records have a limit of 255 characters (including spaces, etc.) Some folks running servers on non-OS X Server machines have split the records over multiple TXT records (does that even work?), but you get exactly one TXT record per OS X Server machine: the Comment box.
I've now simplified the SPF records so that they read something like this:
+v=spf1 a mx mx:cerberus.limbo.jcf.org mx:cerberus.jcf.org mx:jcf.org ip:173.164.140.96/30 ip:207.58.140.213/30 include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com -all+
To translate:
• +v=spf1 a mx+ It authorizes deliveries from any IP listed in the DNS zone, and from any mailserver defined in the zone
• +mx:cerberus.limbo.jcf.org mx:cerberus.jcf.org mx:jcf.org+ It also explicitly authorizes deliveries from the server's main LAN and internet DNS names as well as the domain of the foundation for which I work (and through which emails are occasionally relayed)
• +ip:173.164.140.96/30 ip:207.58.140.213/30+ Next it authorizes the public static IP blocks for the server and the foundation's remote server
• +include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com+ Finally it includes the domain names of the ISP through which most of the mail are relayed
• -all The last item says that if the mail didn't originate from one of those addresses, it isn't ours.
(I think that I've got that right. If I've botched it anywhere, let me know, okay?)
That's 169 characters. The DNS zones loaded happily, and the mail seems to be going out without getting bounced. So far so good!
(There's probably a way to get the hostname on each email to match the domain from which it is being addressed, but I haven't gotten there yet.)
Message was edited by: David Kudler

Most often, it went out under the hostname of the server, cerberus.limbo.jcf.org—which is useless, since that's a LAN address.
You can control this via the myhostname setting in Postfix. This defines the name it uses to identify itself to remote mail servers, which sounds like it'll address a lot of your issues.
I added SPF records that explicitly named each and every mailserver on the machine, just so that everything was clear and aboveboard—but they ended up being about 500 characters long.
OK, this doesn't make sense. You don't need to list every virtual hostname for every domain.
All you need to do is add this specific mail server's address in each domain.
There's no requirement that the hostname of the mail server matches the domain name, so it's entirely valid to create an SPF record in domain1.com that lists mailserver.someotherdomain.com as authoritative. Then, as long as postfix's myhostname says it's mailserver.someotherdomain.com and your reverse DNS resolves to that address your problem is solved.
...but you get exactly one TXT record per OS X Server machine: the Comment box.
Unless you edit your zone file directly and add whatever other records you like. However, given the above, I don't think the 255-character limit should be an issue.
Even if you didn't want to mess with your zone files directly there's still a way around that - SPF allows for an 'include' record which basically tells remote servers to include the record from some other domain, so for each domain you could just tell it to include some other domain's record (which, in turn, could include another domain) allowing virtually unlimited record length (or, at least, 255 characters per domain you manage).
SPF Includes are covered here.
• include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com Finally it includes the domain names of the ISP through which most of the mail are relayed
Bzzzz. You've now allowed any other customer of comcastbusiness.net and comcast.com to send mail on your behalf. You probably don't want to do that. When you consider that 'comcast.com' includes every one of their residential customers you can see that you really don't want to do that.

SPF record confusion

I've read through a number of forum posts here and elsewhere and still find this a confusing thing to setup. I believe it is partly because of the way terminology is being used.
We host our own email on Exchange 2010 servers and have a number of email domains.
domaina.com
domainb.com
domainc.com
domaind.com
The mx records for all the above domains look like: mail.domaina.com IPADDRESS (same for domain b, domain c, etc).
We use an external email filtering service. As a result, our MX records list the filtering service addresses as the highest priority, with our own mail host listed last: mail.ourdomain.com
We only send mail from our own email servers. We do not relay any of our email to another server for delivery to the internet. We do not use the email filtering service for any outbound email.
I only want to include the three servers of ours that deliver mail to the internet in our SPF record.
In the past, when I have done a telnet session to test SMTP from another server inside our network to one of the outbound servers, our server might respond with a different hostname in the HELO/EHLO (one of the four different mail.domaina.com, mail.domainb.com,
mail.domainc.com or mail.domaind.com hostnames). For the example, I will say that mail.domaina.com is our primary mail domain which also matches the subject name on our SSL certificates.
Using a number of different SPF record generating tools, I come up with different SPF records and reading the SPF record creation guidelines, I don't find it any more clear.
Some of the tools even suggest that the email server names be included in the SPF record. Here is what was suggested, more or less, by the SPF record generating tools:
"v=spf1 mx a a:hubtransportserver1.domaina.com a:hubtransportserver2.domaina.com a:hubtransportserver3.domaina.com ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.202/31 ~all"
I used a CIDR calculator to convert the three public IP addresses used by our outbound email servers to generate the CIDR range.
With the information above, can anyone offer guidance on what the proper SPF record format is? The Microsoft SPF tool is still broken - you can't add more than one mx record domain, no matter how you enter them in the box. It will work if you only
enter one mx record domain.
Any help is appreciated!

it should have the IP addresses or the domain name of all the server which is authorized to receive the email for your domain
Example:
"v=spf1 ip4:192.168.0.1/16 -all"
example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 include:example.net -all"
; AND
example1.com. IN SPF "v=spf1 include:example1.net -all"

SPF records: ~all flag

We use a couple of different email vendors for sending external mail. Both suggest using a: ~all flag for SPF. Can you have multiple ~all flags in an SPF record? Or can I only use this once at the end of the SPF record?

Using ~all flags at the end once should suffice.
You can have something like:
v=spf1 ip4:x.x.x.x/16 (CIDR) mx ptr:Sender1.domain.com ptr:Sender2.domain.com include:domain.com ~all
As you can see there is only one ~all flags used.
You can validate yours by using Microsoft's Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard utility:
Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/
More information on Sender Policy Framework can be found via the following link:
http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax
CK

SPF Record edit to remove worldsecuresystems as an mx:?

How can I remove "mx: include:worldsecuresystems.com" from my SPF Record? I use GMail as my provider, and whether I edit the record or delete it and create a new one, "mx: include:worldsecuresystems.com" gets placed back into the text.
Anybody know why this might be?
WorldSecureSystems is the nameserver, not a mail exchange.
Thanks in advance!
Scott

You're right, it is probably my misunderstanding of the SPF Record at fault here.................... Coupla points, if I could ask for further advice,
(1) BC sends no mail for me. I use it only for web admin. Is it still gonna want to auto-populate its MX: entry into the SPF record?
(2) I'm getting the following error from a kitterman.com spf validation test.........
Input accepted, querying now...
evaluating v=spf1 mx include:worldsecuresystems.com a:google.com mx:ASPMX.L.google.com mx:googlehosted.com mx:zoho.com include:zcsend.net include:spf.ihance.net include:_spf.google.com ~all ...
Results - record processed without error.
The result of the test (this should be the default result of your record) was, ambiguous . The explanation returned was, SPF Ambiguity Warning: No MX records found for mx mechanism: www.greaterintell.com.
Additionally, my email Campaign software cannot verify the SPF portion of an Email Authorization validation. Trying to get things the way they should be................
Bottom line problem is that my penetration rating on email campaigns is not where I would expect it to be, I'm only at about 10%. I must be getting recognized as spam to some degree, some where.........
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SPF Record (How Do I Add?)

Has anyone added a SPF record to cut down on spammers sending mail that looks like it came from your domain? What's your experience been since? I would like some assistance on getting this done on my Mac 10.4 Server.
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http://www.openspf.org/ has wizard that builds a SPF
record based on answers to simply questions about
your network. You can use it as a starting point.
Camelot is correct, the best place to get information about SPF is at the openspf.org web site or the newer new.openspf.org site. Make sure you read all the information because publishing SPF records can have an impact on how your users send email. Be especially aware of the impact if you use email forwarding. Email forwarding breaks SPF!
You should also join the SPF Help mailing list if you have any further questions that are not answered at the SPF web site. I read all the postings to that list and myself and others will be more than happy to answer any further questions you have.
As for how effective it is - hard to say because no
one ever lets you know when they block mail due to
SPF restrictions.
Actually, if you fail an SPF check you are sent a bounce email that includes a link to the SPF web site explaining why the email bounced. Here is a sample of a link for an email that my server bounced.
Please see http://www.openspf.org/why.html?sender=ceo%401000planets.com&ip=85.2.114.191&rec eiver=server.pixelpointstudios.lan, header_comment=server.pixelpointstudios.lan: domain of [email protected] does not designate 85.2.114.191 as permitted sender
However, for the trivial amount of work it is to
implement it's worth doing. There's an element of
chicken-and-egg in the whole process - people won't
start adding SPF records until mail servers start
checking them, but mail servers won't check them
until they're being added to the DNS.
Well, there are two parts to SPF. There is the publishing of SPF records to protect your own domains and there is the checking of SPF records to validate the email that is sent to you.
By merely publishing SPF records you are already doing quite a bit. On top of the fact that your are protecting your own domains from fraudulent use, you are also helping stem the flow of forged email for those who are evaluating SPF records on the receiving end.
If you are running Mac OS X Server 10.4.x, the included SpamAssassin install will evaluate SPF records and use the results in its scoring if you install the SPF Perl modules.
If you want to go further than that you can install the Mail::SPF::Query Perl module and a Postfix policy plug-in and block SPF failures at your MTA.
Anything you can do to help stem the flow, as well as
protect your corporate identity has to be a good
thing.
Can't argue with you there!

In my first iPhone 5, the speaker didn't work and people could not hear me on Speaker phone when I used it. When I used the video recording it did not record sound at all only a hissing/static sound, no voice.

In my first iPhone 5, the speaker didn't work and people could not hear me on Speaker phone when I used it. When I used the video recording it did not record sound at all only a hissing/static sound, no voice. I wished for a software fix. I did a hard reset, nothing. I did a full restore to factory settings not putting my backup on and the problem persisted.
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> > discussion forums on our support website:
> >
> > www.apple.com/support
> >
> > iPhone: Basic troubleshooting
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1737
> >
I did every step in the link that i have been provided with (thank you), but I’m
still experiencing the same issue. My experience with Apple has been
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like this with an Apple product. I hope we can find a quick solution.
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of the official resellers here (we have 3: STC, Mobily and Zain)? I want to
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UK.
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go about having the device replaced?
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Nice try! Take a hike.

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I have Imovie on my Ibook, but I don't know what type of connector should I use to download a personal clip. And how should I configure this device, somebody please let me know what I need to buy to download, edit and burn my movies. Thanks.

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
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