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Confused About Why SPF Needs My Email Apps Domain
FYI:
we have a custom domain and we pay for Google Workspace to use that domain for our email/gmail.
i have SPF, DKIM, & DMARC all setup, and a Google tek support person verified it was correct ...
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520 ip and spf record not match
We are using Google Workspace and set Email forwarding using recipient address map to forward messages at our domain name (@example.com) to an external domain name (@external.com). Ex. mail sent to ...
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How to stop spammer spoofing my domain for emails
I've scanned all my code and even changed the passwords to my google apps account such that the SMTP password has changed. However, spammers are still sending emails from June24-eBay-USA-contactmsg-...
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SPF neutral on mail sent with SMTP from Gmail. SPF pass on mail sent from inbox for that address on G Suite
The domain name I'm trying to debug is dallaspetsalive.org. This is a G Suite domain.
When I log directly into my G Suite email account for the dallaspetsalive.org address and send an email, I get SPF ...
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How to avoid gmail orange mark and spam filter when using cloudflare proxies?
I send emails from my site via php smtp method connected to 'smtp.gmail.com' on 465, and account added to GSuite. All my emails falls in spam folder in Gmail. The kind of emails is just password ...
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Does using SPF for GSuite open my domain to abuse from GMail?
Google's recommendation for SPF for both GMail and GSuite is
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
My concern is that this is the same for both Google and GMail. If I am not mistaken, this means that ...
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Sending alert emails from a bunch of servers to G Suite
We have a always changing infrastructure (DigitalOcean droplets and AWS EC2 instances that are created and deleted). We use Ansible to bootstrap VMs and to install netdata on each VM. The goal is to ...
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Is there a way to align SPF for Google Apps alias domain?
I use Google Apps for Work. Let's say I have:
primarydomain.com
And another alias domain:
aliasdomain.com
As long as I send emails from primary domain both SPF and DKIM result perfectly aligned.
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SPF, CloudFlare, Google Apps - Email sent through Contact Form marked as spam
One of the main reasons of putting your server behind CloudFlare is to hide your server's IP address so an attacker can't DDoS your IP and render CloudFlare obsolete. By putting your server behind ...
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Spam mail even after setting SPF
I have set the SPF record for my domain powered by Google Apps. I followed the steps here .
But even after setting the SPF record, spam mails are being sent from the domain. What am I missing?
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Does "~all" in the middle of an SPF record signal the end of the record when it is parsed?
Our company's SPF record format is as follows:
"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all a mx ip4:X.X.0.0/23 include:spf.example.com ?all"
So we have an "~all" in the middle of our SPF record. On the ...
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How should my SPF record be set up, or is it even necessary?
I have a domain (fiestyturtles.com) registered at namecheap.com, and hosted at a shared webhost (hostpc.com). But I've moved the email handling of my domain to google apps, I think I set this up by ...
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Adding SPF record for second domain, but I don't yet have an SPF record for Gmail [duplicate]
I am familiar with the basics of SPF but I am having trouble determining exactly what I need for my setup.
I have my email done through Google Apps to send and receive email for my domain, example....
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DNS, SPF Web Form, Mail not arriving [duplicate]
I need to be able to receive emails from my php webform on my website, I use Google Apps for the mail recipient and my website is hosted with Godaddy. I receive email from other places and I have ...
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How does SPF reduce backscatter with a Google Apps account
Reading up on the SPF spec, I understand that SPF designates certain IPs as valid sender SMTP server IPs. For Google Apps, the SPF record is supposed to be v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all.
The ...
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Configuring SPF, DKIM, Reverse DNS for VPS sending email through Google Apps SMTP servers
Today we realized that all of our emails being sent to email addresses of the type <username>@corporatedomain.com were getting rejected. I don't know who is hosting the email for corporatedomain....
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Using "mx ptr" parameters in DNS SPF record
I'm trying to set up my SPF record to validate properly both for emails sent through Google Apps and for those sent from MailChimp's servers.
MailChimp's docs recommend this SPF record: v=spf1 mx ptr ...
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spf records and applications sending emails [duplicate]
I have an application which is supposed to email error codes or confirmation emails to our support email.
Using google apps
From: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
This software is ...
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Set up spf and dkim, where email domain and sending domain differ
I have two domains:
foo.com and bar.com
Only foo.com is using Google Apps and thus can send emails. I now have a service running on bar.com\application that uses the email [email protected] to ...
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Wildcard configured emails allow spammers to deliver mail? (SPF: "softfail")
I have a Google Apps account set up for one of my domains. Wildcard email delivery is enabled on this domain for all emails (ie. [email protected] passes emails along to [email protected]), and the ...
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SPF: How are [email protected] records verified?
I'm troubleshooting Google Apps marking valid messages as spam. In the message header:
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of user@subdomain....
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SPF record to block other Google Apps accounts
We are having problems with people sending emails from @.com via Google Apps and are looking for a way to block this.
Our spf-records allow Googles servers to send mail from our domain as this is how ...
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Sending email from an AWS domain via Google Apps
I have a domain managed via Amazon's Route53 service. I have a Google Apps (free) account with 10 full users. To facilitate more than 10 users (we need about 12-14), I've been using a setup whereby ...
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SPF for two different outgoing servers?
I have ran into a problem that I think someone should have a really clever answer for.
Today we have our own mailserver that looks like "mail.domain.com" – which we use to send out mail to our ...
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What are the correct SPF records to allow both local and Google Apps delivery
We have recently moved our server stack to a new data farm, and some of our clients are experiencing issues with mail being sent from their GApps accounts. Before the server move we had no issues, but ...
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Where to set up MX and SPF records on sendMail or google apps mail server
Here is my senario:
I have domain say myDomain.com is using google app mail server to send and receive emails
I have a sendMail server deployed on my a cloudServer that I am using to send email ...
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Change Envelope From to match From header in Postfix
I am using Postfix as a gateway for my domain and need it to change or rewrite the Envelope From address to match the From header. For example, the From: header is "[email protected]" and the Envelope ...
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SPF record for media temple domain and google together
Hello I'm trying to add an SPF record for our MT dv server as per this tutorial:
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/658/How+can+I+create+an+SPF+record+for+my+domain%3F#gs
Which instructs me to add ...
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set Google Apps SPF record in Amazon AWS Route 53
I'm using the new AWS GUI for Route 53 to setup my domain records. However, the AWS console won't accept the recommended Google Apps SPF record, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (found here).
It ...
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Correct SPF for using google-apps with additional outbound mailserver
[Asked this on stackoverflow and was referred here]
We are developing a custom web app for a client. This app is on a separate server, server.com, than the client's web site, www.client.com. Each ...
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Sending mail from a server without being "spam"
I've been reading a little about this and have found something called "sender policy framework" which looks like it will help with identifying mail correctly. Will this increase the chances of my sent ...
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Confused about enhancing existing Google SPF to permit server-sent emails also
I'm using Google Apps for my domains email, and have the Google suggested SPF set:
"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all"
This works as expected. In certain cases though, my web app sends emails to ...
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Changing SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record for Google Apps [closed]
My boss asked me to set up Google Apps for a client and basically I have done everything including setting up MX records in DirectAdmin and re-creating the email accounts in Google Apps.
I also sent ...
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How to include domain mail server along with Google mail server in SPF record?
I've recently switched to Google Apps and this thread
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=178723
suggests to update SPF record like :
'v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all' . (1)
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Google Apps - SPF Softfail when sending to same domain
I am using Google Apps to send mail through my private domain. I have used WHM to set my DNS TXT record to "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all" for mydomain.com. as advised by Google.
When I send a ...
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Google Apps, SPF, softfail problem (validates with validation tools, but still softfails otherwise)
I guess this is probably a commonly asked and boring question but I'm really at a loss and I don't know what else to do. This might be a duplicate of other questions, but none of the solutions worked ...
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How to format and where to put the SPF TXT record?
EDIT I think I more or less understand the syntax and, anyway, Google is giving, in the link below, the syntax needed.
My question is really where to put that stuff. Should I quote every field? The ...
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Google Apps e-mail being rejected from some domains
I'm migrating e-mail for my domains to Google Apps' e-mail. Most everything seems to work except e-mail sent to any user at (at least) sonic.net is rejected with a message of the form (where any-...
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SPF Setup - Sending from VPS and Google Apps
In follow up to my question here, how on earth do I setup a SPF record?!?
I understand that I have to add a TXT record to my DNS entries but what to put in that TXT entry is what's confusing me...
I ...
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How to setup a SPF record to help fight SPAM
My little developer mind never really managed to understand how to do it, so maybe you can help me.
I'm using Google Apps for Domains and MyDomain as DNS external service.
Edit: Tough crowd, in ...
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How do I configure MailEnable on Win 2k3 to allow Google to relay SMTP through it?
We use "Google Apps for Your Domain" for email, but wish to use our old email server for sending mail. The reason being that Google Apps SMTP is blacklisted by several of our partners as being spam(!!...
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