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Sender Policy Framework SPF – SPF How To & Help

I don’t know about you but all this Sender Policy Framework SPF stuff is pretty confusing to me…

Here’s some resources to help you guys…

These guys can help sometimes (free and they volunteer) but don’t expect a fast response and please try to get help on the forums first:

http://www.openspf.org/Contact

Also try the SPF FAQ – http://www.openspf.org/FAQ

Paid SPF Support here – http://www.spfconsulting.com/

IRC – Internet Relay chat – If you need real-time help, e.g. for debugging, you can join the #spf IRC channel on irc.perl.org.

SPF Forums – Be sure to look in the older posts & archives – Lots of resources
See the lists of available mailing list forums here along with archives:

http://www.openspf.org/Forums

The SPF project has a number of mailing lists for various purposes. All are generally low-volume, except for spf-discuss and spf-help.

spf-announce Infrequent announcements of the SPF Project. To join send an email to subscribe-spf-announce@v2.listbox.com
spf-help For people needing help publishing their SPF record or with setting up SPF checking. To join send an email to subscribe-spf-help@v2.listbox.com
spf-discuss All things relating to SPF, many members. Check out NOTE WELL for IETF lists. To join send an email to subscribe-spf-discuss@v2.listbox.com
spf-deployment Help set the schedule for SPF industry deployment. The target audience is management.
spf-devel Anyone involved in developing software closely related to SPF should join.
srs-discuss Discussion of the theory and practice of SRS.
srs-devel Sender Rewriting System (SRS) software development.
spf-council Public discussions of the SPF Council. Anyone can read, only council members and advisors can post.
spf-private Private discussions of the SPF Council members and advisors only.
spf-webmasters Public discussions about the SPF website and how to improve it.

Tools
http://www.openspf.org/Tools

Send an email to these two places:
spf-test@openspf.org and check-auth@verifier.port25.com and it will tell you if things are setup correctly.

Hosting DNS Lookup – http://tools.bevhost.com/cgi-bin/dnslookup

Here’s a step by step wizard to setup your spf record – http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html

Another SPF record testing tool – three actually on the page
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
One will check if your domain has a SPF record and if it’s valid, one will check the syntax of your SPF record and the third will check deliverablilty against certain hosts.

Common SPF record mistakes – http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Common_mistakes

subdomain SPF records – http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/The_demon_question
Make sure to publish SPF records for subdomains as well. If you use wildcard domains for sites like wordpress MU something like this would work –

Sites with wildcard A or MX records should also have a wildcard SPF record, of the form: * IN TXT “v=spf1 -all”