On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Junior wrote:
I applaud your efforts and while I do not fully grasp the scope of your
project, the effects of it on me, due to no action of my own, are negative.
This is the problem with universal restrictions. Although I own several
domains and each offers a smtp server for my outgoing mail, my provider,
Charter.com, will not allow me to use my domain smtp because their
restrictions fear that could be spamming. So I am forced to used a Charter
smtp. But SPF refuses that for obvious reasons. So increasingly I am having
problems getting email to people. This brings up another considerable
drawback to your program: you put the impetus on the everyday person who a)
has no access to the servers to place a SPF record on, b) has no power to
force their hosts to do such and c) has little time or knowledge on how to
create one anyway. Like you, I loathe spam. As a web developer with around
fifteen email accounts I get literally hundreds of spams, phishes, etc. a
day. Insane. But I shouldn't be the one punished. Thank you.
The charter.com restrictions are reasonable. The fact that your domain
DNS provider (bluesong.com?) would publish an SPF record for you, without
consulting you, that effectively prohibits you from sending email is
mind-boggling stupid/evil/anti-social. I suggest that you ditch your DNS
provider (for bluesong it is winsdns.com) ASAP. There are plenty of low
cost DNS providers that will let you add your own DNS records via a
friendly web interface (of course you need to learn what records are
needed...). Or just get a DNS provider with a clue.
I use both nettica.com and dnsmadeeasy.com.
With 15 domains, nettica.com has a good deal on up to 50 domains for $50/year.
Once you have control of your own DNS, you can fix your SPF record to
allow you to send mail from charter, or whereever else you please (you
can also get SMTP Relay service on port 587/whatever so that you
don't really have to send through charter.com).
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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