Re: PTR Records

I'm sorry to be so difficult, and I really appreciate you sticking with me
on this! The name change was a goof - I used the wrong IP. Were are you
seeing that? Maybe I can check that for myself next time. Hopefully that's
corrected now.

We don't send mail as the other domain names - we just receive mail as them.
Mail only goes out as cowetaschools. net; so do I still need an SPF record
for those domains? This got really confusing when the domain was set up as
..net but someone decided we needed to be able to receive email as .org, too.
They added the .com just for kicks, I guess.

Thanks

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eBd1OTR9FHA.1484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> MC <mccato@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sorry, yes, we have 3 mail servers. But dewey is the only server that
>> receives mail for our domain. The other ones (Exchange 2000) send
>> mail, though. Does that complicate matters?
>
> Yes, it does complicate matters, and is at least one reason why your
> having
> trouble with AOL and Compuserve, the SPF should fix that. Just make sure
> you
> have a SPF record for all hosted mail domains.
>
> Now it looks like you changed the HELO name of the mail server, you need
> to
> change that back to dewey.cowetaschools.net. It is very important this be
> done just right, or you'll have the same problems you've had in the past.
> See:
> dewey.cowetaschools.net claims to be host cowetaschools.net [but that host
> is at 168.9.128.18, not 168.9.128.29].
>
>
>> I did include all of them
>> in the SPF record; but I didn't include any PTR info in the SPF
>> record. Should I include that?
>
> Any mail server that sends mail for your domains needs to be in the SPF
> and
> have a PTR. The SPF needs to be added to all your domains, not just the
> default domain. Any domain name that these mail servers send mail for
> needs
> the same SPF record.
>
> It looks like you only added one SPF record. Add the SPF to the rest of
> the
> domains, use the same text in each SPF.
>
>> Since only dewey receives mail, I
>> should just leave the one MX record, right?
>
> If dewey is the only server that recives mail it should be the only MX.
>
>
>
>
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> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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