Comments on: Broken SPF records http://majid.info/blog/broken-spf-records/ Sporadic pontification Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Frank Ledo http://majid.info/blog/broken-spf-records/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Frank Ledo Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:23:43 +0000 http://majid.info/blog/?p=461#comment-450 That happened to me once with a colocation facility, the type of organization that should know better. What happened to them is becoming quite common. Someone on the business side of the fence decides to start using SalesForce to send out important pricing notifications, and fails to ask anyone on the technical side if there is anything that needs to be done. Next thing you know, the company is sending email using their own reply/from addresses, but from salesforce.com servers, not listed in their SPF record. Maybe SalesForce should automatically test the SPF record before sending mail for a client... -- Frank That happened to me once with a colocation facility, the type of organization that should know better. What happened to them is becoming quite common. Someone on the business side of the fence decides to start using SalesForce to send out important pricing notifications, and fails to ask anyone on the technical side if there is anything that needs to be done. Next thing you know, the company is sending email using their own reply/from addresses, but from salesforce.com servers, not listed in their SPF record.

Maybe SalesForce should automatically test the SPF record before sending mail for a client…

– Frank

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