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The Cabal has arrived.
Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@widget You sure it's not just spam-boxing it? Try favouriting one of mine.
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:14:45 UTC from web -
@widget Yep, didn't get it. :(
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:16:11 UTC from web -
@widget Part of it might just be that mailservers are silently dropping it because the IP changed but the SPF record didn't yet propagate to said mailservers (or you didn't change the SPF record, in which case you should).
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:20:20 UTC from web -
@widget SPF is Sender Policy Framework. It's a TEXT (usually - there's one other valid type, but I don't recall it) record in DNS that basically says "these IPs are the only ones meant to be sending mail that claims to be from this domain" - if the sending machine's IP isn't on there, most of the big mail providers will just silently drop mail from it.
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:24:24 UTC from web -
@widget An SPF record is a log of how much sunblock a person has applied to the server in the past month. Emails can't be sent if the server's getting the wrong amount of UV rays, after all.
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:24:37 UTC from web -
@widget Yeah, you'll want to read up on SPF before you start just poking around in there. But I would be willing to bet that's at least part of the cause.
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:27:39 UTC from web -
@widget Yeah, they're generic enough that the problem isn't (or shouldn't be, at the very least) SPF.
Monday, 03-Sep-12 05:31:57 UTC from web
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