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DomainKeys experimental implementation - worth the hassle?

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Wed, 11/29/2006 - 19:12 — Christoph C. Cemper

Trying to figure out why so many of my business mails reach the Yahoo Trash folder I found out that it's a really cold-war of email providers vs. spammers… keeping those "small businesses" as I am outside…

In fact, addtionally to the SPF which I already implemented for my mail domain I found these techniques to be utilized to have a "good" mail domain

Yahoo DomainKeys – Mailserver Exim has this as EXPERIMENTAL feature and my hosting admins warned me

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In fact, domain key support in Exim is currently experimental. Therefore, setting up domain keys on your server will require a complete rebuild of your SMTP server from source. This task can be completed within 2 hours. Cost $300 . Please note that this feature is experimental. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that it will function properly. Also, source builds of Exim have the potential to cause issues with cPanel.

wonderful, eh? And people are hassling around with this feature already for some time

Yahoo's point on this is

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DomainKeys will typically be implemented/enabled by the team within a company, ISP, or email service provider that deploys and runs the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Some companies may have service providers that handle their email. As MTA vendors add support for DomainKeys to their products, the implementation of DomainKeys will become simpler.

GREAT - until then our mails get into your trashbox dear Yahoo people ???

I'm not really sure why Yahoo chose to enable such a feature so early,

but IMHO it sucks to be forced into software in EXPERIMENTAL stage, or?

update: after getting the quote, ThePlanet admins told me

Quote:

Changing the Exim version makes it even more likely that problems will occur.

In all honesty, I highly recommend against custom Exim builds on cPanel machines. Especially when the custom builds include experimental modules. Instead, I would contact Yahoo to see if there are any other options.

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