Need professional web server config help

[Kitty Hello]

I can't send to hotmail addresses anymore!!

My reply and my mail from/to microsoft live-mail.

Hello,

We have successfully added your domain to our Sender ID queue. However, we did not find any SPF records associated with your domain. To complete this process, you'll need to publish your SPF records through the Microsoft Sender ID Wizard at http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/

It is possible that you have made the changes to your DNS information, but this has not fully replicated throughout the internet. The good news is that you do not need to notify us when you create or any revisions to your SPF record since we will automatically pull the current record from the DNS daily. Once a SPF record is found your domain will leave the Sender ID queue and be added to the Sender ID program.

You can find technical information on the Sender ID program at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123557(EXCHG.80).aspx .

In addition, please take note that this does not guarantee that your emails will be delivered to your recipients' inbox. If you are still unable to send emails to Hotmail users, please confirm that your emails comply with Windows Live Hotmail's technical standards. Additional information on common deliverability issues and best practices can be found on the Windows Live/Hotmail Postmaster Site found at http://postmaster.live.com/Guidelines.aspx

Regards,



Shirley

Sender ID Management Team

What must I do now?

[Moru]

Don't expect a professional to be able to do this... Our domain had been without this for 12 years before I accidentally noticed it last week... Not even the last company that is Oh So Professional set it up.

[Kitty Hello]

But I can't send mails to hotmail addresses anymore! It's a real problem.

[Wampus]

*scratches head*

I think that might be a question for your webhost. I just checked and my domain is working but I wouldn't have a clue why and how it got that way.

[Moru]

If you have a login to the place where you registered your domain you can log in there and add a TXT record with the content of the ms wizard you got the link to. Just follow the instructions there. If you have no login, call the domain registrar and ask for help with adding an SPF record. If they are clueless, you need to take your business elsewhere...

In the simplest form you need something like this in a TXT record of your domain:

v=spf1 a mx -all

This page helps in checking the SPF record:
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
Might be a bit slow updating the cache though, make sure you set a low TTL (time to live) for your record in case you need to correct mistakes.

[Kitty Hello]

That was a good hint!
I changed it to look like this now:



Is it OK?

[Moru]

Can't see the TTL there but looks ok to me. DNS has not updated yet though.

And you can edit out all you want on that screen, it's easy enough to anyway since your domain won't work if that wasn't public knowledge already.
All you need to do is get a linux promt and type "dig glbasic.com". The command to see if your TXT record is up is "dig txt glbasic.com" if you add "@ns1.vps-center.de" you only ask the authoritative dns server instead of your ISP's DNS server.

Dig exists for windows too somewhere.