On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 19:24, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
It is becoming increasingly difficult to /successfully/ send mail from a personal domain, particularly when that domain is not recognised as pne of the big email providers.
It's not just me then! would have been easier to fix if it was though!
Google has a good explanation of how to set up SPF if you use them to send at https://support.google.com/a/answer/10684623?hl=en and digitalocean also has very similar advice at (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-spf-record-...
Thanks for these, I'll take a look.
As I understand it, in broad terms this involves telling the Internet which hosts are allowed to send mail for the domain, and what to do with mail that doesn't match that?
Taking one example, I have a couple of family domain names which I manage, where mark@ comes to me, mike@ goes to my Dad, and so on. Each of the people have their own mail configurations; mine pretty much always goes through Google (I got set up on their workplace package back in the days when you get a 50-user account for free and I'm reluctant to give that up!), my Dad uses Virgin, my uncle uses BT Internet, etc. Am I on a hiding to nothing here? (I could set up my own mail server, but then I'd have to reconfigure everyone's phones, laptops, etc and maintain that configuration - and I really don't want to go there!)