[TriLUG] Email Problems

[James Jones]

Aaron,

Thanks again for all the help. Looks like I have extra work ahead of me.

All else that joined in with comments -- Thanks to you all as well.

jcj

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:16 AM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Aaron.
>
> Happy to help!
>
>> I sent an email to a yahoo account of mine and I noticed this line in
>> the received yahoo header.
>>
>> "Received-SPF: none (domain of tuftux.com does not designate permitted
>> sender hosts)" Further in the header is these lines --
>> "Authentication-Results: mta1241.mail.sk1.yahoo.com  from=tuftux.com;
>> domainkeys=neutral (no sig);  from=tuftux.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)"
>>
>> On my Juno.com email account, the lines are:
>>
>> "Authentication-Results: mx06.dca.untd.com; DKIM=NONE
>> Received-SPF: None"
>>
>> So looks like if I figure out how to add the DKIM key to my DNS mx
>> records, I may have a chance to get my communication corrected.
>> Hopefully I understand what is needed.
>
> Those headers highlight that you also don't have any SPF records.  You
> should setup SPF as well as DKIM.
> http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786
>
>
>> This setup with Google as my email host has existed since 2008 without
>> any problems until now. Has the DKIM key portion been in existence all
>> that time?
>
> Based on some quick Googling, Google Apps For Domains launched DKIM in
> early 2011.  I also stumbled on this handy walkthrough which covers
> setting up both:
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/send-better-email-configure-spf-and-dkim-for-google-apps/1518
>
>> Note: I had to cut part of the message history from this email because
>> the message hit the "too long" routine on the discussion group.
>
> Yeah... that's par for the course for interacting with me via TriLUG.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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