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 Message 42188 
 Rixter to Digital Man 
 Netmail and Email 
 20 Aug 25 13:32:39 
 
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  Re: Netmail and Email
  By: Digital Man to David G on Sun Dec 01 2024 02:30 pm

 >   Re: Netmail and Email
 >   By: David G to All on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:14 am
 > 
 > 
 >  >    Hello everybody!
 > 
 >  > I imagine this has been asked several times, When you sign in as a user t
 >  > the BBS you get the option to add an email, I added my @gmail.com but as 
 >  > may all know GMail is picky when it comes to *dynamic* IPs tunning mail
 >  > servers.
 > 
 >  > Can I avoid that addig appropriate records to my DNS such as SPF, DKIM, a
 >  > so on, or should I just opt to not use gmail?. I opted for just skipping
 >  > email forwarding.
 > 
 > An SPF is likely all you need and as long as your system that receives mail 
 > your domain (your "mail exchange" or MX) is also the host that *sends* mail,
 > then it's a simple SPF record:
 > $ host -t txt synchro.net
 > synchro.net descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all"
 > 
 > Or you could just relay your outbound mail through Vertrauen:
 > https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:relay_smtp
I was reading some old messages and come across this one. Where do you add the
descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all" and do you include the quotes? I am not
having any mail problems, I was just curious. Have a great day Digital Man!
Rixter
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
Madison,NC

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