Re: Gmail and SPF

Chris J Dixon wrote:
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but find myself totally unable to understand exactly what to do.
It also seems like trial and error is not a good way to go, if I
correctly understand that updated entries can take up to 48 hours
to propagate.

I remember other heart customers having similar issue (no SPF at all, or
incorrect SPF) but can't remember if heart fixed it after a phone call,
or the customers fixed it by leaving heart!
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In short what you need is that heart add an SPF record to the DNS for
your cdixon.me.uk domain containing
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v=spf1 include:_spf.virginmedia.com ~all
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which tells other email servers "when you're checking if I'm legit,
allow the servers that virgin nominate as valid" and "meh to anything
else", but not actually "block anything else".