Re: Test

[Manolo Díaz <damdl@pleione.es>]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:13:55 +0000
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, Manolo Díaz said:
> > You (or your ISP provider?) are launching emails from the
> > googlemail.com domain using the host terra.adsl24.co.uk
> 
> That may or may not be a problem, depending on whether or not they
> check for SPF or use other methods to check for forgery.

That's true.

> 
> > Asking what nodes are expected to send mail from googlemail.com we
> > have: ;googlemail.com.			IN	MX
> 
> But querying MX records doesn't get you a list of allowed outbound
> hosts.

Of course. In fact those are the hosts where you can send mails for a
given domain, and you can send them from unknown and not listed
anywhere hosts. But many MX administrators do not like this because it
opens doors for spammers.

As you said it can be a problem or not, depending on the recipient
domain.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Manolo Díaz