updaated spf record – Spam Safe Mail

Updated SPF Record 2024

19/04/202405/01/2024 by Mark Smith

As part of our ongoing excellence for service, we have updated our SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record that technial staff should use from 2024 onwards, especially when publishing DKIM and DMARC records. SPF Record The new SPF record is… v=spf1 a mx include:spamsafemail.net -all Alternative SPF Record Please note: the following is also still acceptable… … Read more

Inbound Email Requirements

From the 1st June 2024, in order to send emails to users on (or via) Spam Safe Mail, sending email servers need to adhere to the following strict standards for inbound emails... Requirement Overview Here is a quick at a glance overview of the requirements for sending to users on… More… →

New DKIM Security Standards

During 2024, many of the large email service providers will be introducing new security standards to email to cut down on spam email, and eliminating attacks where someone purports to be someone else in order to scam money from them. This is going to hinge around some new technologies that… More… →

Updated SPF Record 2024

As part of our ongoing excellence for service, we have updated our SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record that technial staff should use from 2024 onwards, especially when publishing DKIM and DMARC records. SPF Record The new SPF record is... v=spf1 a mx include:spamsafemail.net -all Alternative SPF Record Please note: the… More… →

Digitally Signed S/MIME Emails

How can you be sure that the email has come from who it purports to represent? And how do you stop a received email from being changed? Well read on... In searching the Internet, there are many tutorials on how to setup your chosen email software client for digital certificates,… More… →

Hotmail and AOL Spam PDF Attachments

We have had a considerable number of complaints of spam emails containing PDF attachments coming from the Hotmail and AOL email networks. Normally, PDF attachments are allowed straight through, but, due to the high volume of complaints, we have removed PDF attachments from the accepted file list so that it… More… →

Google Outage

It was confirmed today by Down Detector that Google had an outage across their whole platform, affecting GMail, Google searches, YouTube and others. This will affect any emails that you are sending to GMail today, and it may be that the recipient has not yet received their email from you.… More… →

Festive Emails

Well the season of silly emails has already started early this year. Please remember, don't open attachments on joke emails, this is one way a computer pandemic starts! →

Increase In Spam Emails

We have seen a recent increase in the number of spam emails, both phishing attacks and also marketing emails. We are successfully blocking both by our excellent and aggressive network spam email filter. The main problem is that business are being forced to resort to other forms of marketing, and… More… →

Thanking the NHS

EasyJet Hacked

This is a little worrying, 9 million email addresses hacked. Expect an increase in attempted phishing attacks... For more information, please see the BBC website at... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52722626 →