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NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:21:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Life with gmail
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From: Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com>
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The date being 19 Oct 2023, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 
decided to write:


> It looks like you do have an SPF record:

> minimarcos.org.uk.      3600    IN      TXT     "v=spf1 ip4:5.77.32.195 +a
> ~all"

> which says that your genuine emails will come from the SMTP server at
> 5.77.32.195

> That server appears to be a CPanel instance at
> https://newvictorious.theukhost.net:2083/ which is presumably your webmail
> host and, as mail.minimarcos.org.uk, your SMTP server.

> So it seems like your hosting company has set things up for you, but you
> need to configure your email program to send your SMTP mail via
> mail.minimarcos.org.uk rather than another SMTP server.  If you do that you
> should be obeying the SPF on your domain and you shouldn't have such
> problems.

eUKhost is OK. The problem is that POPstar can only be configured to send 
to one SMTP server (relay.plus.net) which it why I'm installing NetFetch. 
It looks like I may have cracked the immediate problem with logging in - 
I'd put my username and password in the obvious, but wrong, location.

> Adding a Sender: header won't cut it, I'm afraid - any spammer worth their
> salt would already be sending one of those.

It works at the moment. Whether that continues to be the case is another 
matter.