I use Google App for Your Domain for my email, both my personal email and as email for the websites I run. I decided it was finally time to set up Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records and Sender ID. For differences between SPF and Sender ID you can read this. While they aren’t the same, the syntax and similarities make the steps for setting up each identical for our purposes. What is SPF? From the OpenSPF website: Even more precisely, SPFv1 allows the owner of a domain to specify their [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress Update
In my original entry about AOL My eAddress I mentioned that it crashed both Firefox and Safari on my Mac Mini. Both Firefox and Safari work fine with the web mail on my iMac. The problem continues on my Mac Mini. It’s probably specific to my Mac Mini but at sometime in the future I’ll be rebuilding the Mini and I’ll try again. I haven’t heard of anyone else having similar problems but I’m curious to know what will happen on a fresh Mac Mini PPC install. Since both browsers [...] Read the rest »
They’re Back
As previously mentioned, when Yahoo added my web hosting account to my regular Yahoo account all my e-mail aliases vanished and e-mail started bouncing. Well, today I noticed that they’re back. But, they’re back in name only. I can see them, I can edit them, I can add them and I can delete them. But I can’t send to them. The mail bounces with a “the user does not have a yahoo.com account”. Even though I can pick an alias as a sending address from the list Yahoo gives me [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress
[Update: In December 2008 AOL made some changes to this service which I talk about here. Also, I never fully embraced this service. I still have the address and use it occasionally but it's not a important account. If it went away tomorrow I wouldn't miss it or the emails. While I never had any problems with this service I also never really felt AOL really wanted to support it.] Registration is straightforward. On the first screen you pick you .com or .net domain. If it’s available you can proceed [...] Read the rest »
Yahoo ISP + Yahoo Web Hosting = Mail Nightmare
I thought I had researched Yahoo Web Hosting thoroughly and hadn’t come across any potential pitfalls. But things went downhill as soon as my domain was set up. Part of the problem was probably self-inflicted as I was using the Yahoo Mail beta software. What I didn’t know, and what wasn’t documented, was that the Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting service does not yet support then mail beta. In my defense, even now that I know what problems I had I can’t find any reference or warnings in the Yahoo [...] Read the rest »
