But I found it amusing...

[Michael Kain]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> 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
>   
Who are you kidding?  If you retired you would miss dealing with these 
problems.  haha.