{"id":10,"date":"2007-10-16T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independence.blinkenshell.org\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-10-16T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T17:38:29","slug":"gmail-spf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independence.blinkenshell.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/gmail-spf\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail, SPF"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time activation emails sent to Gmails<\/a> users have been marked as spam. I thought it was because there is a link in it, and before I was using the word “congratulations” which is probably not very popular by spam filtering software. Now I think I’ve finally figured out the real<\/em> reason, yay!<\/p>\n

I’m using SPF<\/a> on Blinkenshell’s DNS<\/a> to stop spam with from addresses using @blinkenshell.org, what this does is make sure that only specific hosts can send emails using blinkenshell.org as the domain in the from address. The problem was, in the DNS editing software I had just entered a SPF record like this:<\/p>\n

v=spf1 a mx -all<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This worked for me last time I used SPF, but this software was different. When I checked the SPF record today I noticed I got a reply looking like this:<\/p>\n

\"v=spf1\" \"a\" \"mx\" \"-all\"<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some SPF checking software doesn’t like this, because they expect it to be in one string, like this:<\/p>\n

\"v=spf1 a mx -all\"<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I enclosed the string in quotes in the DNS software and now it seems to work much better, gmail doesn’t mark the email as spam even though there is a link in it!<\/p>\n

Hopefully this will help a lot, cause many of our users seem to use Gmail and often has often got lost in the past. From now on, I hope that these emails will get through properly! Yay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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