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From: Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Gmail and SPF
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:35:42 +0100
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Andy Burns wrote:

>Chris J Dixon wrote:
>
>> 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!
>
>In short what you need is that heart add an SPF record to the DNS for 
>your cdixon.me.uk domain containing
>
>v=spf1 include:_spf.virginmedia.com ~all
>
>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".

Thanks very much Andy, that seems to have done the trick.

Chris
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