But I found it amusing...

[Kevin Miller]

Rick Chadderdon wrote:
> One of my users just sent me a message from one of her vendors.  It
> basically said, "We've removed you from our weekly update list because
> you blocked our mail.  Let us know when you unblock us and I'll add
> you again."  My user asked me if I could find out why the mail was
> being blocked, because she needed the updates.  No problem...
> 
> It turned out to be an SPF hardfail.  Further checking led me to guess
> that someone added an mail exchanger without changing the MX entry for
> the domain.  Their SPF entry is "v=spf1 mx -all".  The mails that are
> getting blocked are, of course, not from their MX entry's IP address.
> But they send us, "as soon as you unblock us..."  (sigh)
> 
> To be fair, the person who sent my user that message is a sales rep
> and probably saw nothing more than their mail system's bounce message.
> (Which should have, however, had an explanatory link...)  Still... 
> I'm sitting here shaking my head.
> 
> Rick

LOL.  Some days, retirement can't come soon enough!

...Kevin
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