Eventually I figured out the issue and wanted to highlight this to and filed a ticket with their support.Īfter having waited 12 days for a reply from their support team, I sent a quick follow up to their support team,

Using SPF RRs is not just discouraged, it is forbidden and invalid - and has never been validĪs a result of using the wrong RR type (by following the guide), I couldn’t get Google toĪccept my SPF record, which was obviously not ideal.

Note the use of discontinued as opposed to deprecated. Use of alternative DNS RR types was supported in SPF’s experimental phase but has been discontinued. SPF records MUST be published as a DNS TXT (type 16) Resource Record (RR) RFC1035 only. RFC4408 was only ever experimental, and in the RFC7208 specification SPF-type RR’s are no longer valid and should be changed to TXT. While this might have made sense at the time of writing that entry (presumable refering to RFC4408), this document was made obsolete in 2014 with the introduction of RFC7208. The Problem(s)Īs I was setting up SPF and DKIM on, I had some problems due to an error in their “knowledge database”, which suggests This is important to me, as I currently use 5 e-mail accounts due to different organisational affiliations,Īnd this would be entirely unmanageable if I were to use individual inboxes on webservices. I had wanted to avoid ProtonMail out of a concern that they don’t offer regular IMAP/SMTP connectivity,īut require the use of “ProtonMail Bridge” to be able to use other mail clients than the ProtonMail web service. These are both options that are highly praised in online reviews, but given my experience with I find it hard to believe thatĮven the more reputable tech sites did a thorough test of the service. In the end, after being disappointed with the initial look and feel of MailFence, I went for the Germany-based. Sent in the UK - this would be considered highly inappropriate – if not outright illegal – in Denmark. Something that bothered me in particular was e-mail, through which a surprising amount of sensitive information is being

I have recently been on a budget-friendly quest to claw back at least some of my privacy from the ever-expanding silicon giants.

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