Email Server Solution

[Steve Buehler]

At 02:09 PM 8/2/2005, you wrote:
> > Ok.  I give.  What in the heck is an spf (TXT) record?  Something that
> > just came out this year?  I have everything that AOL requires now.  If
> > that is a new term for a PTR or reverse record, then I already have it.
>
>It is probably an SPF record. http://spf.pobox.com/.
>
>It dictates from which IP a message for a specific domain is supposed to
>come from.

         hmmmm.  Is this widely used?  I have never heard of it 
before.  It is going to be a headache to implement for an 
administrator that uses a control panel for his clients on his 
server.  Ensim is widely used and it doesn't do it for you.  Kind of 
takes away the reason to have a control panel if only a tech can 
setup a site.  2 reasons we got the control panel for the server was:
1.  So that even my non techy boss could setup a site.
2.  So that the client could have a control panel where he can do 
some of his/her own administration.  Like setting up his own email accounts.
         It really isn't feasible to implement this on these types of 
servers.  We might as well close down shop since our customers want 
control panels.  Or wait for Ensim to implement it.  I don't know if 
the other control panels out there use it, like CPanel.  But if they 
don't then it isn't something that a lot of hosting companies are going to do.
         From what I read, it also requires the DNS server to be 
separate.  Ensim doesn't have that built in and doesn't support it 
either.  In our case, I have written some scripts that automatically 
moves all of the DNS records to a separate server a couple of times a 
day and it works just fine this way.  But for a lot of providers who 
can't write a script, this won't be feasible for them either.  I have 
offered my script for doing it at no charge, but nobody administering 
Ensim seems to want to do it.  They seem happy to just have the 
default DNS servers on the same system as their Control Panel.