Questions tagged [spf]
Sender Policy Framework is a standard by which the owner of a domain uses a specially formed DNS record to advertise which hosts are authorized to send email for the domain.
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Why are my messages being rejected due to SPF record issues? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a little guidance as to how to setup a server I am working on, so that emails get through to people without being sent back by an SPF filter.
I send out email and this is the response ...
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SPF softfail domain does not designate IP as permitted sender
I use both mailgun and a namecheap mail server (where I also have my domain) and when I receive mails in my gmail account, mailgun is recognized as a permitted sender, but that's not the case of ...
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How to Properly Set SPF Record [duplicate]
I am new to setting up server, this is my first time setting up mail server on my own. I am using ubuntu with webmin, everytime I send and receive from gmail, I had no problem.
I can receive emails ...
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Exchange Online, Mandrill, SPF and DKIM
I have a customer ABC Ltd (abc.ie) who has a requirement to send emails via SMTP to their own customer base from within an application that we have developed for them.
For their company email they ...
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Email abuse reports for outbound.protection.outlook.com
I've recently set up a DMARC record for my domain and now I'm receiving email abuse reports from hotmail.com that state:
This is an email abuse report for an email message received from IP 104.47....
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Can't send mail from own server to Google
I'm running a mail server and I'm having problem with sending mails to Google. Mails to other providers work fine.
I guess it may be related to my DNS settings, as I've read that Google is quite ...
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Sender Policy Framework Qualifiers
RFC4408 defines the Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
SPF has qualifiers ("-", "~", "+", "?") which are defined as (fail,softfail,pass,neutral) respectively.
There is confusion amongst information ...
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Should I put Scope:Link or scope:Global IPv6 address in DNS AAAA record?
I have a mail server for which I need to create the AAAA DNS record and update the SPF record to include its IPv6 address.
An ifconfig command shows a Scope:Link IPv6 address and a Scope:Global IPv6 ...
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How do I send (legitimate) email on a dedicated server as appearing from different domains?
We need to send email using PHP's mail() function (Actually CakePHP, which wraps that function) directly from our dedicated server (app.ourserver.com). We would like to send mail from app.ourserver....
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SPF + DKIM + DMARC with Gmail account and external mail server
I,m using gmail with own domain (Google Apps) for my project. Now I want to add external mail server for sending notifications for users. Gmail doesn't give private keys for DKIM and if keys will be ...
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SPF "include:" does MX stay as included domain's MX, or get translated to the includer's MX?
SPF records allow you to include another's domains SPF record within your own. For example, example.com can have include:_spf.google.com in its SPF record to include all of the SPF rules for _spf....
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Add a second IP to SPF record, from an external SMTP server [closed]
I would like to add the IP of an external SMTP server to an existing SPF record, which is looks like this:
"v=spf1 a mx ip4:185.6.139.6 a:frey.mailpool.1.netmask.hu a:frey.mailpool.2.netmask.hu a:...
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Exchange not checking SPF record for own domain
I have an interesting issue with Exchange where it appears to check and stamp spoofed messages from external domains but not ones it has setup to send from. For example I can spoof a message from 1@...
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Can't send email to myself via gmail and postfix forwarding
I set up postfix to forward email to my gmail account. I can send email from this server to my gmail, I can receive outside email and it's forwarded correctly (even from other gmail accounts). However,...
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DKIM, SPF, DMARC, SPF OK mails are flagged as SPAM
I have a dedicated server running CentOS7 with Postfix, the problem is that all the sent mails are flagged as SPAM by hotmail and gmail despite DKIM, SPF, DomainKeys, DMARC records and keys wich are ...
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Can SPF allow us to securely masquerade as one third party using another third party mailer?
We use a paid-for bulk emailing service for our business operations and we've added that service to our own SPF record so that it may masquerade as someone from our domain for what it'll be asked to ...
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How to combine two SPF (TXT) records when one is from a local mail server? [duplicate]
I would like to add a second SPF TXT record to my domain, allowing an external mail-server to send emails from my domain so it won't be classified as spam on the receiving end. I've read that I should ...
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Migrating Email Providers; Are Multiple DKIM Records Viable During Transition?
I am currently gathering requirements for a small (hopefully) project of migrating from SendGrid to Mandrill as a transactional email service provider. We have been using SendGrid for close to 3-4 ...
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Format for/creation of PTR and SPF records?
Let's say that I have a server that resides at Linode that I use for my business, mybusiness.com. It has an IP Address of 1.2.3.4, and an A record of myserver.mybusiness.com. I own the domain name ...
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Creating spf record for a multidomain email server [duplicate]
I have a email server (iRedmail on Ubuntu) where I host my personal domain, and several other domains. Despite the fact that non of the domains spam, somehow, MXtoolbox tells me my server is on the ...
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Same mailserver, two domains. One domain flagged as spam. Possible causes?
I own two domains, let's call them example.com and mydomain.net. These two domains point to the same ip address, let's say x.x.x.x, and both their A and MX records point to them. They also have SPF ...
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Adding an SPF record for a 3rd party, but don't have one for my own domain
We have a 3rd party service sending some email on our behalf. They are using our domain name in their outgoing emails. They have requested we configure an SPF record for them.
We do not currently ...
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SPF: premature end-of-input on private/policy
I just moved to a new server with quite the same configuration of the old one, and everything is working fine except SPF. Here are the error message I get:
Nov 3 10:49:05 ns3016726 postfix/spawn[...
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Are SPF records for subdomains valid for the parent domain?
I used to think that SPF records for subdomains were completely independent from the parent domain.
I'm trying out a domain email service provider that advises:
Using a subdomain you will still ...
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How can I skip greylisting for servers with a valid SPF Record in Postgrey? [duplicate]
I typically do not use grey listing as it doesn't play nice with multiple mx servers, but I do like preventing direct-access attempts to email me (use an MTA, or don't send email).
I would like to ...
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exim4 configuration with SRS daemon
I'm struggeling setting up exim 4 with an external SRS daemon (Debian package srs). The srsd is running and converting addresses back and forward just fine. I can't use exim's built-in srs code, since ...
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What are the implications of inserting a DKIM record for a third party sending email on our behalf?
Our organization is setting up an account with a third party cloud service that will be sending emails on our behalf. Our marketing department would like to eliminate the "via" or "on behalf of" bits ...
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How to setup postfix to check SPF record only for domains that i want to check
I have working postfix server. It configured with amavis and uses pretty good SMTP headers control. But sometimes my users receive spam from spammers with well known mail service providers addresses. ...
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SPF, SRS and aliases on Gmail and other external services
A lot of my mailservers users are using Gmail to send with an address on my domain as their alias. In an attempt to combat e-mail forgery I have implemented an SPF record and have been advised to ...
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SPF permerror reported by Hotmail
Our server has been receiving abuse reports from Hotmail, because of an auth-failure. One of our sending servers has been blacklisted and Hotmail is refusing delisting. We have investigated a lot, and ...
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SPF record is showing up unchanged after several days
I need to change my SPF record, but the one that Kitterman shows as being the present SPF record is not visible on my DNS server.
OLD ONE: v=spf1 a mx include:e2ma.net ~all
I added the new one and ...
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Using SPF for spoof protection
I'm trying to work through properly configuring SPF for my domain. We have two MX servers that only receive mail, and two outbound relay servers which we expect to list in our SPF record.
We also ...
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Setting up SPF and initial questions [duplicate]
I'm trying to set up SPF for our domain to prevent or reduce spoofing. The difficulty I'm having is with how to look at any particular email and determine if it would pass SPF.
We of course know ...
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SPF and DKIM help: Do the FAIL reports from DMARC indicate an issue?
I am having trouble determining if my SPF and DKIM are configured properly. Here are key details:
My domain is mysteryscience.com
We send mail from google apps, from SendGrid, and from Intercom. All ...
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Setting up an SPF record for a shared hosting service with lots of email gateways
My website is on a Hostgator shared host, and I need to set up SPF for my email so my outgoing emails won't get bounced. So, I have to add a TXT record to the DNS for my domain, listing all possible ...
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Do changes in SPF records take time to propagate?
I'm setting up SPF records for my domain, and am not getting the results that I expect. It's quite possible I'm making some sort of mistake, but first I'd like to ask: does it take time for the ...
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SPF-record / E-mail marked as spam in Gmail
E-mail send from my own e-mail ([email protected]) to a Gmail-account is marked as spam. When I view the e-mail headers you will see a softfail. I have tried to set the SPF-record for my domain, but I ...
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How should I configure SPF for my domain? [duplicate]
I'm the domain administrator for, say, example.com. I have a few dozen users and we provide them with e-mails ([email protected]) that are aliases to their main e-mail.
Now there's quite a few ...
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SPF Not Being Recognized
I'm working on setting up a VPS on Vultr (Ubuntu 14.04). The hostname is setup on the server as host2.sethta.com.
I've almost got everything setup how I want, but Google is rejecting emails from the ...
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Google Apps email messages being flanged as "failed fraud detection" on outlook [duplicate]
mx entries for gmail and spf code for gmail is in place on cpanel however every time I try and send an email from my google apps account it gets picked up as fraud on outlook, and spf=softfail (if ...
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Creating a host record for an IP address to be used for SPF [duplicate]
I would like to allow an email service to be a valid sender for my domain. This service has dedicated a single IP for my account.
Instead of:
v=spf1 ip4:1.2.3.4 -all
Will the following behave the ...
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What does dis=NONE mean in an email's Authentication-Results header?
The following is from an email I received recently:
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral;
dkim=pass [email protected];
dmarc=pass (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=...
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Email redirected to Gmail contains failed SPF
I have an email account on my domain, e.g [email protected]
And on my dedicated server mysite.com I redirect messages from [email protected] to [email protected]
Now, if an external user like john@...
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IP address is not allowed to send mail from DOMAIN
Today I heard that a customer can't send email to us. He received the following error:
< #5.5.0 smtp;550 [ipaddress] is not allowed to send mail from [domain name]. Please see http://www.openspf....
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Workarounds for maximum DNS-Interactive terms limit exceeded in SPF record?
As a hosting provider, we send email on behalf of our clients, so we help them set up DKIM and SPF email records in their DNS to get email deliverability just right. We've been advising them to use ...
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Force PHP mail to avoid using postfix root@myorigin; use /etc/mailname instead?
I recently posted an issue setting up a mail server with postfix and virtual aliases. I solved the problem here:
Postfix/Dovecot - Multiple Domains and Multiple Linux Accounts
To sum it up, I set ...
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Google softfail when sending between accounts on same domain
I'm dealing with this for almos a month. Tried several changes but no luck.
Some users manage their e-mail addresses through standard Gmail. NOT Google Apps. Their accounts were configured as aliases....
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subdomains and SPF failures
I have recently moved some of my e-mail services to sub-domains (sub1.company.com, sub2.company.com) because the SPF of the main domain - company.com got full (lot's of includes and there is more ...
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Is DMARC helpful to me if I don't need reporting?
I have SPF and DKIM setup and working for the email domain I administer. The next recommended step is to setup DMARC since SPF and DKIM are both in place.
What are the benefits of using DMARC if both ...
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Only enable SRS when forwarding to enable DMARC
I am setting up a mail server on my VPS and in order to prevent spam and being marked as spam I have enabled SPF, DKIM and DMARC. However, I do not want to host my own mailbox, so I forward the ...
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