The SPF record for pobox.com is giving me trouble. It comes in two
pieces:
pobox.com text "v=spf1 mx mx:fallback-relay.%{d} a:webmail.%{d} a:smtp.%{d}
a:discards.%{d} mx:store.discard.%{d} a:emerald.%{d} redirect=%{l1r"
"+}._at_.%{o}._spf.%{d}"
Ok, my DNS library give me a list of TXT records. I currently
go through the list looking for exactly 1 record that begins with
"v=spf1". Now it appears that I must glue these two pieces together.
But how do I know when to stop gluing? If pobox.com also published
a record beginning with "spf2.0", then it would get glued to the
end of the v=spf1 record. Sure, I could check for particular
headers, but how could I know the complete list? Also, I thought
that the order of TXT record returned from a query was not guarranteed?
So, is my DNS library broken? Or is the pobox.com SPF record broken?
Or am I missing something?
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