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I have begun getting spam messages that make it through my spam filter. The mails have my own address as sender, but are not sent from my own server. This means that they fail the SPF check. But they are still characterized as intra-domain and make it past the spam filter. How is this possible?? How...

I host about 20 websites for clients on my server, and I user SmarterMail 4 to provide email service to them. Some of the clients have problems sending mail through my server, as it tends to get filed into junk/spam folders (when sending to AOL especially). I've checked the blacklists and my IP is...

If you haven't already read it, there's a post on this subject matter titled "DKeyEvent SM - DomainKeys/DKIM plugin for SmarterMail [v 0.2.7]" http://www.smartertools.com/forums/t/9469.aspx?PageIndex=2 Some good info on DKIM can be found here, although some hosting companies (as of...

I second that feature request. That would be a really sweet feature to add! As long as it is an option on Greylisting, people can turn it back on for SPF Pass if the Spam amount increases. /jp

Make sure that the box for skip interdomain spam filtering under the options tab is NOT checked. Also just FYI scoring on SPF_None is not a good idea as the most mail servers have not yet adopted SPF which will cause a high rate of False Positives.

Hi I'm hosting 200+ domains on a SmarterMail server. I need to set some SPF records for these domains. The domains are all set up like this: mydomain.com --> web server www.mydomain.com -> web server mail.mydomain.com -> SmarterMail server As shown above, "mail.mydomain.com" points...

I'm new to SmarterMail and SPF. I am currently running the free version on one server, hosting a single domain (Server 1). And a licensed version (Server 2) with about 21 domains. I want to set each SmarterMail server to backup the other. So I have several questions. 1 - Will setting up each mail server...