But I found it amusing...

[Scott Silva]

Michael Kain spake the following on 10/17/2006 9:36 AM:
> 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.
But retirement gives you a new set of problems;
Do I take a nap or go fishing?
Do I spend the day with the grandkids at the zoo or take them to the movies?
Those problems seem sooo much easier to handle!!  ;-)


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