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I'm trying to get my head around this issue. My emails are getting sent into spam for people. In this case, its gmail. If I look at the email details I get:

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109.74.201.130 is another server, which hosts ultranerds.co.uk. This is the SPF record I have for the domain clickpress.com:

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...and here are the email details I'm sending:

From: [email protected]
Subject: Your ClickPress news release has been approved
To: [email protected]

So why on earth is it trying to lookup the IP for ultranerds.co.uk, and doing the SPF check on that? I thought the whole point of SPF was that it looks up the SENDERs info, not the RECIPIENT??? (I've never seen this behaviour before)

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Ah man - I just realised what it was! I'm sending to my email on ultranerds, but that is actually a forwarder to my gmail account. So what it's doing it checking the IP of the forwarding server, not the originating. Duh!

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    Do mark your answer as the correct answer...
    – Christopher H
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 6:15
  • @ChristopherH yup will do (it won't let me do it for 2 days though). I was half tempted to delete my question, but thought I'd leave it up there in case it helps someone else in the future
    – Andrew Newby
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 6:53
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    Yeah, that’s generally what you should do - no matter how silly or stupid you think your question is, your hours of pain can spare someone else going through the same.
    – Christopher H
    Commented Aug 13, 2020 at 10:47

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