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   Chris J Dixon to Andy Burns   
   Re: Gmail and SPF   
   13 Oct 24 16:35:42   
   
   XPost: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent   
   From: chris@cdixon.me.uk   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
      
   >Chris J Dixon wrote:   
   >   
   >> but find myself totally unable to understand exactly what to do.   
   >> It also seems like trial and error is not a good way to go, if I   
   >> correctly understand that updated entries can take up to 48 hours   
   >> to propagate.   
   >I remember other heart customers having similar issue (no SPF at all, or   
   >incorrect SPF) but can't remember if heart fixed it after a phone call,   
   >or the customers fixed it by leaving heart!   
   >   
   >In short what you need is that heart add an SPF record to the DNS for   
   >your cdixon.me.uk domain containing   
   >   
   >v=spf1 include:_spf.virginmedia.com ~all   
   >   
   >which tells other email servers "when you're checking if I'm legit,   
   >allow the servers that virgin nominate as valid" and "meh to anything   
   >else", but not actually "block anything else".   
      
   Thanks very much Andy, that seems to have done the trick.   
      
   Chris   
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