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Adding SPF records when using both Google Workspace and SendGrid

I previously didn't have any SPF set up on my domain. I use Google Workspace. I now use the SendGrid API. This is what I set as the SPF record v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_mailcust.gandi....
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SPF records pass in Gmail sends but show failure in Postmaster

I'm using Sparkpost as the ESP to warm up a secondary domain. We've used this Sparkpost IP for our primary domain for a few months without a problem. I've been tracking the deliverability of the ...
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SPF failure when sending to Google despite server being authenticated

I have encountered this issue several times recently and I've been struggling to confirm the source of the problem. Most recently, I saw this on a domain that uses Kerio for email. We'll call their ...
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Postfix - can't send emails to gmail addresses via terminal

I have the following errors when trying to send emails to gmail addresses via my terminal: sudo tail /var/log/mail.log Jul 19 13:19:44 ubuntu-4gb-fsn1-1 postfix/cleanup[5780]: B4B8C5F4A3: message-id=&...
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Gmail adds multiple SPF records

When I connected my domain to gmail, it added two records to my DNS: TXT @ v=spf1 include:dc-aa8e722993._spfm.mydomainhere.com ~all TXT dc-aa8e722993._spfm v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all But ...
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Is it still possible to use a catch-all email forwarder to gmail, and how?

Since ever, I've been using a catch-all email forwarder at a domain I hold, *@mydomain.net, and sending the email to my personal gmail account, [email protected]. I've just been ousted from my domain ...
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Gmail reports SPF issues with emails sent from Thunderbird via postfix

This question is similar to the following question in the Mozilla forum. However, the answer given there to this question doesn't address the issue that I am seeing. Question in Mozilla forum: https://...
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Mail proxy with SPF and DMARC without changing FROM headers

Here is my situation. We have internal network, with lots of 2nd level subdomains - foo.internal.domain.ltd as example. Those subdomains may or may not have public DNS records with Class A IPs. Then, ...
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I setup DMARC p=reject on server but now I can't send via gmail to gmail (using server email From address)

Did I shoot myself in the foot ? I mainly use gmail to send and receive emails. Support etc. My default 'send email as' profile is not the gmail address itself but an address on my server (also the ...
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Set SPF to send email using Gmail

(Disclaimer: I totally suck at being a sysadmin) I am sending email for a domain using Gmail. The domain is partyboatcharters.com.au (I hope I am allowed to put domains here). Gmail is configured to ...
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SPF Error - Cannot send emails to @gmail users

I get the following error, every time I tried to send an email to a gmail user. Error:"This is the mail system at host chimaera.otenet.gr. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could ...
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Forwarding to Gmail account via Postfix: SPF record with a hard fail

I run a Postfix server which forwards one address to a gmail address. # /etc/aliases localuser: [email protected] This works since several months. But if a sender has a SPF record with a hard ...
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SPF denying emails, and different IPs sender

I'm pretty new to email server configuration, so now I'm trying to make my SPF work well but I'm facing a strange problem. My SPF is like this v=spf1 +mx +a +ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx +include:_spf.google....
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gmail is rejecting my e-mails to a recipient with a gmail address with a 550-5.7.26

I have a fairly straight forward email setup using postfix. Within my house running on a raspberry-pi to which my router forwards all ports. I have a postfix instance that can see incoming mail. A ...
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Can I stop a SPF SOFTFAIL in Gmail when sending to and from addresses that have a mail alias?

I have a vanity domain (mydomain.com) hosted by Gandi and configured with mail aliases for my family that point to our respective Gmail addresses: Alias Real address [email protected] [email protected] ...
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SPF/DKIM/DMARC for Gmail "Send mail as" via smtp.gmail.com on external domain

Since "Google Apps" / "Google Apps for business" / "G-Suite" / "Google Workspaces" free tier is being discontinued, I need a solution to migrate my ~30 extended ...
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Mail from Teams forwarded to Gmail marked as spam due to DMARC failure

When I write a chat message in Microsoft Teams the receiver gets an e-mail notification on her Office 365 account ([email protected]) when she is offline in Teams. The receiver set it up so that all ...
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Custom Return-Path for gmail domain

I do not expect my problem to be super-unique, but I was not able to find and answer so far even at Gmail help pages, and lots of googling with various terms did not provided a solution. Context: ...
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Google SPF fails with some IPs

GMail MX are ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM: 1 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM: 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM: 5 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM: 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM: 10 When checking for IPs for these names, each time your ask ...
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Unable to send email to gmail account from my mail server

I've created a mail server and have setup a PTR record from the ISP to my static IP server. The mail server works well and am able to send and receive emails and send mails to many email addresses ...
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SPF SOFTFAIL domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate X.X.X.X as permitted sender)

in my company I have the following error. softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate X.X.X.X as permitted sender) client-ip=X.X.X.X; Let's say my mail....
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Forward messages to Gmail (postfix+SRS) has DMARC failure even though SPF and DKIM succeed

I run my own domain, but forward many email addresses to my gmail account. Recently, I started seeing a lot of messages marked by gmail as spam. I have SPF set for my outgoing email, and use SRS to ...
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Postfix send mail only to GMail, all other domains are deferred and not sended

My Postfix server is running on Debian Stretch. It is able to send emails to a GMail address without problems which are not considered as spam. At the DNS level I configured DKIM, SPF and DMARC and ...
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Gmail couldn't verify that MyClientSite.ie actually sent this message (and not a spammer)

I'm having problems with delivery of emails from an application on a web server to Gmail. Gmail is displaying a round circle with a question mark, instead of the first letter of the sender, and ...
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DKIM failure "message has been altered"

Summary I have a Mattermost server which needs to send emails out to users when they sign up, etc. These emails are failing DKIM checks and showing up in users' Gmail as spam. Observed behavior I ...
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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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Forwarding to Gmail doesn't work for emails from Microsoft.com due to DMARC, but works for PayPal.com

I've noticed that I'm not getting certain emails in my Gmail and Yandex.Mail that are forwarded via UNIX systems (without SRS — not too sure if Sender Rewriting Scheme is still the best practice? ...
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SPF and Gmail as mail client

I have mail server hosted by some "3rd party provider" (https://www.neoserv.si/) and I want to use Gmail as email client. In Gmail I have set POP3 to copy all incoming messages and IMAP so I can send ...
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not allowed to send mail from my own account?! DNS lookup / SPF

I give training and therefor i have a gmail account (linked to my weebly website www.serenewarrior.nl) Sometimes I get a Delivery Status notification (below) saying I am not allowed to sent mail and ...
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SPF keeps on failing

Based on this link how to set up SPF and answer in closed topic here My dns record looks like this v=spf1 a mx ip4:xxx.xxx.xx.xx -all include:_spf.google.com ~all but google throws an error ...
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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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SPF PASS in gmail body/FAIL in google postmaster

I'm using a third party ESP for sending mail and have configured my domain www.styleupdates.co for including the SPF records from them. The third party emailer shows our SPF records alright, emails ...
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SPF record validators are reporting my SPF record as wrong - can someone tell me why?

If I look at email sent from my small forums server, and received in my private domain Gmail account, the raw headers say: ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass So I assumed ...
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Two servers, same email sent from both, Gmail sees only one as spam

I've been working on this problem for years with no success (I gave up a while back and just hoped Gmail would eventually "learn" that messages from one of my servers wasn't spam, but that apparently ...
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How to block/blacklist a spam server via SPF record

I have an SPF record: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:70.xx.xx.xx -all I had the default from Google of v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all I've been moving away from this default in an effort ...
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Change the domain in the 'via' that Gmail shows as the result of a wrong SPF record

So I have a small Linux webserver, it is running the Direct Admin control panel and everything is working fine. For each domain, SPF and DKIM records are present in the DNS and mail is (as far as I ...
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Why don't my domain's messages to a google group get their headers rewritten so DMARC can pass?

Whenever my domain sends a message to a google group on another domain the DMARC alignment fails. This is true for all my approved senders, even using Gmail in my domain. It seems to be because the ...
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My Email Strightly goes to gmail spam/just folder ( DKIM,SPF,DMARC is okay ) [duplicate]

( it's not duplicate , its related to rDNS , please don't flag it as duplicate or give me the link of related one ) i have a problem, my emails from my mydomain.com straightly goes to spam folder in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SFP + Gmail = Emails delivered to spam box

A long time ago I posted a question here: Postfix: Gmail marking my email as spam where I said that although emails send from my servers were passing all the DKIM and SPF tests they were getting ...
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SPF check based on client IP instead of MTA IP?

Setup On a client computer with IP address a.a.a.a, there is a mail client that uses SMTP to send emails via company email server example.com with IP address b.b.b.b. The company email server ...
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Failed Gmail SPF check when importing mail through IMAP from our mailbox when original email was sent with ESMTP headers

We have a strange situation: we receive an email with ESMTP headers in it our server accepts it, it's fine we import that mail in Gmail like any other emails from our boxes Gmail makes SPF check ...
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Failed SPF for email imported to Gmail because of client IP instead of server's in message when sent through SMTP from one local box to another

We have a linux (Debian) VPS with domain (let's say example.com with MX mail.example.com) that has SPF set up. There is dovecot+exim running. There is also Direct Admin on top of that. When I send a ...
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Gmail SPF misconfigured

The SPF entry for gmail.com is a redirect to _spf.google.com: $ dig gmail.com txt @8.8.8.8 +short "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com" _spf.google.com is a redirect to 3 other entries $ dig _spf....
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Gmail SPF fail based on client IP

Gmail is failing SPF check based on the client IP. These are the relevant headers: Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of [email protected] does not designate 164.77.240.58 as permitted sender) ...
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