Hi all,
I was using mxtoolbox (which I think is amazing!) to determine if my "deliverability" was good from a mail perspective and I've come across a few issues that I'll be tackling as soon as I can but one in particular had me guessing correct practice.
Since I am running in an OpenVZ container, I just realised from the test results that my VPS IP isn't necessarily the IP that mail comes from. Seems it goes out through the hardware node's smtp server?
1. Should my SPF Record be the 208. IP or left as my VPS's 97. IP? (refer to screenshot)
2. Just because I'm curious, why doesn't mail come from my VPS IP? I thought it would mail out from my VPS straight to the real world? Seems to go another.. route/server?
Thanks in advance!
I was using mxtoolbox (which I think is amazing!) to determine if my "deliverability" was good from a mail perspective and I've come across a few issues that I'll be tackling as soon as I can but one in particular had me guessing correct practice.
Since I am running in an OpenVZ container, I just realised from the test results that my VPS IP isn't necessarily the IP that mail comes from. Seems it goes out through the hardware node's smtp server?
1. Should my SPF Record be the 208. IP or left as my VPS's 97. IP? (refer to screenshot)
2. Just because I'm curious, why doesn't mail come from my VPS IP? I thought it would mail out from my VPS straight to the real world? Seems to go another.. route/server?
Thanks in advance!
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