SPF, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said Dave Smith on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:26:25 MDT:

> Some alert  readers may recall a  discussion I started some  time back
> trying to solve the mystery of why hotmail would drop my emails. Today
> I finally setup an SPF record for my domain hoping to solve the as yet
> unresolved problem. Does anyone know how long it ought to take hotmail
> to notice  my SPF  record? And  more imprtantly: will  it even  make a
> difference?

Hotmail has become worse in the last year or so end of story:

http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/iis_aid_news/are_hotmail_cutting_their_own_throat

My own testing confirms the results of this article.

Andy
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